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Tradecard. John Paret & Co. 402 & 404 Fulton Street. Brooklyn, NY. Recto.

Tradecard. John Paret & Co. 402 & 404 Fulton Street. Brooklyn, NY. Recto.

Image of a customer and a tailor. Bottom reads: 'Fashionable Clothiers. J.E. Stanton, Manager. 402...
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[Three men in front of a brick building

[Three men in front of a brick building

Three men in front of a one-story brick building
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Wayne Belardi

Wayne Belardi

Half-length portrait of Brooklyn Dodger infielder Wayne Belardi in uniform, posing indoors at...
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Flatbush Jewish Center

Flatbush Jewish Center

Caption: "Samuel Cohen, chairman of the building committee of the Flatbush Jewish Center, hurries...
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Boys will be butchers

Boys will be butchers

Three disheveled adolescent boys (two at left in handcuffs) sitting on bench in precinct house;...
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[North side of State Street.]

[North side of State Street.]

North side of State Street between Willow Place and Columbia Place, looking toward northwest.
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[S.E. corner of Ditmas Avenue.]

[S.E. corner of Ditmas Avenue.]

S.E. corner of Ditmas Avenue and E. 16th Street (it is just to south of #511 E. 16th Street).
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[Swedish Hospital ambulances]

[Swedish Hospital ambulances]

Exterior views of the Wilhelmina A. Jewett Clinic of the Swedish Hospital and two parked ambulances...
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The Brooklyn Visual Heritage website provides access to a newly digitized corpus of 19th and 20th century photographs and other visual materials drawn from the rich collections of the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library. The digitization and the design of the website were accomplished through Project CHART, a collaborative partnership with Pratt School of Information and Library Science. We invite you to explore and use this new online resource intended to serve scholars, historians and the general public of all ages, to engage with Brooklyn’s historic past and make connections to its present diverse and vibrant culture and to visit the cultural institutions the website represents for a total Brooklyn experience.

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