Faces of Israel

Center for Jewish History

Batkin, Stanley I., 1914-

Israelis -- Portraits

A collection of 75 portrait photographs of Israelis taken by Stanley Batkin. These images were selected for an exhibition "Faces of Israel" that took place at the Center for Jewish History, New York from April through September 2006.

Center for Jewish History

Center for Jewish History

Batkin, Stanley I., 1914-

Photographs

Portraits

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Our Brooklyn

Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)

Carroll Gardens (New York, N.Y.)

Brighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)

Neighborhoods -- Social conditions

Our Brooklyn presents short histories, facts and resource lists documenting Brooklyn's vibrant and diverse neighborhoods, from Sheepshead Bay to Sunset Park, from Bushwick to Bath Beach. As of 12/27/2008 the neighborhoods of Brighton Beach, Carroll Gardens, and Williamsburg were represented.

Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library

Photographs

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Brooklyn in the Civil War

Brooklyn Public Library

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions

United States. Army -- Military life

Women -- Social conditions

Slavery

Slaves -- Social conditions

Brooklyn daily eagle

This Web site explores Brooklyn during the Civil War by presenting primary source documents — photographs, letters, newspaper articles, illustrations, and more — that show what life was like during this period. At the bottom of each page are links to information about this project created by the Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection, an online survey, and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902, a searchable repository of Brooklyn’s newspaper of record. The site is divided into 4 main themes: Soldiers, Women, Slavery, and Daily life.

Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library

Correspondence

Articles

Illustrations (layout features)

Photographs

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Historic Brooklyn Photographs

Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Pictorial works

Brooklyn daily eagle

Vernacular photography

Brooklyn Public Library's online catalog contains a selection of more than ten thousand historic photographs from the Brooklyn Collection.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Photograph Collection (c. 1900-1955) provides many of the images, documenting change and development in the urban environment throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The major categories of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs in the catalog include Bridges, Churches, Coney Island, Neighborhoods, Parks, Schools and the Eagle itself.

Other collections created by amateur and professional photographers concentrate on particular areas, ethnic groups or activities.

Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library

Photographs

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Sintich Brothers Photographs

Brooklyn Museum

Mission scientifique française en Amérique du sud: travaux et fouilles de Tiahuanaco

Tiwanaku Site (Bolivia)

Tiwanaku culture

Hermanos Sintich (Firm)

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Bolivia

This album of photographs entitled Mission scientifique française en Amérique du sud: travaux et fouilles de Tiahuanaco 1903, is the result of a French government sponsored expedition to Bolivia. Following the expedition, which also included visits to Argentina, Chile, and Peru, several volumes were published on the anthropology, paleontology, linguistics, geology, archaeology, and cartography of those regions. This album of photographs appears to be the most complete record of the Mission's field work in Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) and is of scholarly value since the results of the excavation were not published on this major pre-Columbian site in Bolivia. The only other known copy of this album is in the Musée du Quai Branly (formerly Musée de l'Homme) in Paris. The photographs were taken by the Hermanos Sintich, two brothers who were based in La Paz, who had specialized in producing cabinet cards of portraits of Bolivians.

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

Hermanos Sintich (Firm)

Photographs

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Maudslay Photographs

Brooklyn Museum

Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931. Biologia Centrali-Americana

Maya art

Archaeology -- 19th century -- History

English archaeologist and photographer Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850–1931) first visited Central America in 1872. The "unexpected magnificence of the monuments" in the tropical forests captivated Maudslay, who then dedicated his life to documenting ruins found in Mexico and Central America. Maudslay played a crucial role in exploring and documenting ancient Mayan ruins found in several sites including Palenque, Copan, and Chichen Itza. Between 1881 and 1894, he conducted arduous explorations in remote areas, carrying his photographic equipment, casting plaster, and other supplies to make careful photographic records and plaster casts of architectural ruins. When he returned to England he published his findings in a multi-volume set entitled Biologia Centrali-Americana and made exhibition prints from his glass plate negatives that were shown at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It was in Chicago that Brooklyn Museum founding curators Stewart Culin and William Henry Goodyear saw the prints and arranged to purchase them, along with the Biologia for the Brooklyn Museum.

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931

Photographs

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African Art Exhibition of 1923

Brooklyn Museum

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929

Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic)

Art museums -- Exhibitions -- History

Ethnological museums and collections -- History

In 1903, Stewart Culin (1858–1929) became the founding curator of the Department of Ethnology at the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, now the Brooklyn Museum. He was among the first curators to recognize museum installation as an art form. He was also among the first to display ethnological collections as art objects, not as ethnographic specimens. This approach is evidenced in his exhibition Primitive Negro Art, Chiefly from the Belgian Congo. The exhibition opened in April 1923, and displayed African objects he had acquired in Europe from dealers.

These digital images of the African Art Exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1923 are from the Culin Archival Collection, the Museum Library, and the Digital Lab. This is a small selection of textual and visual documents; many more are available for viewing at the Brooklyn Museum Archives.

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929

Photographs

Exhibition catalogs

Correspondence

Reports

Clippings (information artifacts)

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Goodyear Archival Collection

Brooklyn Museum

Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923

Museum curators

Architecture -- History

Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)

World's Columbian Exposition(1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

Church architecture

Architecture, Gothic

William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923), whose image collections are presented here, was the Brooklyn Museum's first curator of fine arts (1899–1923) and a renowned art and architectural historian. In addition to being a vital force in the early years of the Museum's fine arts department, Goodyear did extensive research in art history and architectural theory. Within this collection of correspondence, scrapbooks, notes, clippings, and expedition diaries, are images of medieval cathedrals, churches, and mosques taken between 1895 and 1914 that he used for his architectural research.

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923

Photographs

Finding aids

Site plans

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The Construction of BMCC

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Building sites

College campuses

Campus planning

Universities and colleges

The Construction of BMCC is an online exhibit that features 89 photographs from the time when the Borough of Manhattan Community College was built.
Plans for the new building were first announced in 1968 and Mayor Abraham D. Beame broke ground six years later. Due to a municipal fiscal crisis in the late 1970s construction was halted until late 1980. Three years later, in 1983, it was under Mayor Edward Koch's administration that the new building opened at its present location on Chambers Street.

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Photographs

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Kent State at Baruch College: Memorial Service Held at Baruch on May 6, 1970

Bernard M. Baruch College

Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970

Memorial service

Student movements

Student protesters

This collection of materials taken from the Baruch College archives documents a memorial service held at Baruch College on May 6, 1970 following the death of student protesters at Kent State University in Ohio. Included are accounts from local sources, audio recordings of the service, and related images.

Bernard M. Baruch College

Bernard M. Baruch College

Photographs

Articles

Sound recordings

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