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Hundreds of newly “revealed” collection items are featured throughout the website. Check them all out by exploring here.
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American Indian woman with fish, 1689
Jasper Danckaerts
M1979.23.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Long Island Historical Society, circa 1920-1930
Ernest Tanare
V1974.031.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/themes/changes-in-the-land/theme-changes-in-the-land-898x1250.jpg)
Executors’ sale of valuable property at Great Neck, L.I.
Journal Steam Printing, 1889
L.I.-[1889].Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/themes/celebrity-and-scandal/theme-grid-celebrity-and-scandal-1.jpg)
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/themes/art-and-inspiration-on-long-island/theme-grid-art-and-inspiration-1.jpg)
Self-portrait, late 19th century
Oliver Hazard Perry III
M1979.22.109
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/themes/war-and-conflict/theme-grid-war-and-conflict.jpg)
French and Indian War Powder horn, 1759
M1991.888.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
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“Our Countrymen in Chains” broadside, 1837
M1975.383.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/themes/art-and-inspiration-on-long-island/theme-grid-religion.jpg)
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/the-governors-letters-for-1665-66-67/bhs_akalendarortable1608_2of3_a-scaled-1250x810.jpg)
A [Legal] Kalendar, or Table (London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1608)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Bloodgood Cutter
Inscription in The Long Island Farmer’s Poems (New York: N. Tibbals & Sons, 1886)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Bloodgood Cutter
The Long Island Farmer’s Poems (New York: N. Tibbals & Sons, 1886)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/christianity-and-race-on-long-island/bhs_SpecCollBX7233.B7982_1of1_a-scaled-1250x842.jpg)
A Sermon preached at East-Hampton…at the Ordination of Mr. Samson Occum, 1761
BX7233.B7982 E8 1761
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/a-remarkable-revival-of-religion/bhs_SpecCollBR560.E25_2of2_a-scaled-1250x915.jpg)
A Faithful Narrative of the Remarkable Revival of Religion, in the Congregation of Easthampton, on Long-Island, 1809
Samuel Buell
Vault B8615f 1809
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Journal of Roger Gill, 1698
1981.014
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Order of Allegiance to the United Provinces and Prince of Orange, 1673
Townsend family papers (1974.021)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/objects/side-chair/M1983.14.2_overall_completed-666x1250.jpg)
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/objects/land-deed/bhs_2019.013v_u-1250x746.jpg)
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/objects/desk-box/BHS_m1983.200.1_closed_2-1250x793.jpg)
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/objects/bloodgood-haviland-cutter/bhs_m1974.70.1_a-1072x1250.jpg)
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/objects/seated-american-indian-show-figure/1986.361_Cigar-Store-Indian_color-postcard-734x1250.jpg)
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/the-interesting-and-distinguishing-beauty-of-long-island/8.5-bhs_v1974.031.49_a-1250x1234.jpg)
Interior of the Long Island Historical Society, circa 1960
Long Island Historical Society photographs (V1974.031.49)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Shore at Rocky Point, L.I. near East Marion, 1878
George B. Brainerd
V1972.1.140
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Old Horton House, Southold, 1878
George B. Brainerd
V1972.1.42a
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/indians-at-the-east-end-of-the-isle/8.4-bhs_li003365730_a-1250x979.jpg)
The Indian tribes of Long Island, circa 1934
Designed, compiled and lithographed by Victor G. Becker
L.I.-193.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Guide map of Wompenanit, Hither Hills, and Hither Woods,
belonging to Frank Sherman Benson and Mary Benson at Montauk, L.I., 1905
L.I.-1905a.Fd.RA
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Land deed for property near Smithtown between Wyandanch and Lion Gardiner, 1659
Smith families papers (ARC .244)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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A [Legal] Kalendar, or Table (London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1608)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Desk Box (open lid), 1640–60
M1983.200.2
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Diagram of the village of Southold, 1882
J.M. Case
L.I.-1882.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Peter Stuyvesant, 1907
“Bushwick and her Neighbors Vol. 1” scrapbook
Eugene L. Armbruster photographs and scrapbooks (ARC.308)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Dagger and scabbard, 18th or 19th century
M1991.890.1a-c
Brooklyn Historical Society
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American Indian woman with fish, 1689
Jasper Danckaerts
M1979.23.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
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View of New York from the North (near Fulton Ferry), 1679
Jasper Danchaerts
M1979.23.4
Brooklyn Historical Society
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New York, 1809
I. Luffman Strand
NYC-[18-?]a.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Bentwood Box, 17th century or later
M1984.320.3
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Friends Meeting House, Westbury, 1878
Elias Lewis Jr.
V1972.1290a
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Map of the western part of the Township of Gravesend, 1800s
Teunis G. Bergen
Bergen-[18–?]uu.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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A description of the towne of Mannados or New Amsterdam as it was in September 1661, 1859 [1664]
M-1664 (1859?).Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Land deed in Dutch signed by Peter Stuyvesant, 1661
Lefferts family papers (ARC.145)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Chair following wood treatment, before upholstery work, 2019
Photo courtesy Fine Wood Conservation Inc.
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Crest Rail after treatment, 2019
Photo courtesy Fine Wood Conservation Inc.
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Damaged Crest Rail before treatment, 2109
Photo courtesy Fine Wood Conservation Inc.
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/mr-b-preaches-to-seven-to-eight-of-his-mistresses-every-sunday-evening/6.4-bhs_v1974.51.10_a-881x1250.jpg)
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, circa 1870
V1974.51.10
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Tilton anniversary party invitation, 1865
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC .212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Plymouth Church, Brooklyn Heights, 1890–1900
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection (V1972.1.1040)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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[Old Beecher Pulpit Chair], circa 1903
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC .212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Henry Ward Beecher and ‘Pinky,’ circa 1930-1932
Photograph after the original painting by Harry Roseland
V1974.39.51
Brooklyn Historical Society
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“Mr. Beecher selling a beautiful slave girl in his pulpit,” circa 1896
Thure de Thulstrup
V1973.6.523
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/when-mr-beecher-sold-slaves-in-plymouth-pulpit/6.2-bhs_ARC.212_Sally_Maria_Diggs_billofsale_1_a-941x1250.jpg)
Sally Marie Diggs bill of sale, 1860
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC.212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/this-country-is-inhabited-by-saints-sinners-and-beechers/6.1-bhs_arc212box68folder4_a-787x1250.jpg)
Frontispiece engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, circa 1853
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC.212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/this-country-is-inhabited-by-saints-sinners-and-beechers/6.1-bhs_arc212box68folder3_a-1-1250x1013.jpg)
“Dr. Lyman Beecher and His Family”
Engraved reproduction after 1859 daguerreotype by Matthew Brady
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC.212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/this-country-is-inhabited-by-saints-sinners-and-beechers/6.1-bhs_portraits_beecher-henry-ward_a-815x1250.jpg)
Henry Ward Beecher, circa 1870–80
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC.212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/this-country-is-inhabited-by-saints-sinners-and-beechers/6.1-bhs_M1988.64.1_1of2_a-1250x488.jpg)
Henry Ward Beecher/Brooklyn souvenir spoon, 1866-1905
M1988.64.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Lyman Beecher, undated
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC.212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/a-brooklyn-familys-social-reform-legacy/5.5-bhs_1978_137box1folder4_cover_a-830x1250.jpg)
“How the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Began,” 1914
Mary White Ovington
Richetta Randolph Wallace papers (1978.137)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Mary White Ovington, 20th century
Richetta Randolph Wallace papers (1978.137)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/the-young-ladys-mental-facilities-were-gradually-impaired/5.4-bhs_v1972.1.34_a-1250x1004.jpg)
Poor & Insane Asylum, 1878
George B. Brainerd
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection (V1972.1.34)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/womens-contributions-from-the-home-front/5.3-bhs_m1975.17.3_a-1002x1250.jpg)
Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair, Interior view of Academy of Music, 1864
Brown & Co., lithographer
M1975.17.3
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Tin-glazed earthenware tile, 17th or 18th century
M1984.273.2
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Long Island Historical Society Request for Fair Donations, 1864
Women’s Relief Association Records (ARC.245)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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John Jay’s handwritten copy of Federalist paper No. 2, 1787
New York Customs House account records and John Jay copy of Federalist paper No. 2 (1974.127)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/beyond-the-threads/5.2-bhs_arc.130_s1-f1_packercommencement1849_cover_a-816x1250.jpg)
Circular and Catalogue of the Brooklyn Female Academy, 1849
Packer Collegiate Institute Records (2014.019)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/beyond-the-threads/5.2-bhs_2014.019.14.01.001_a-1250x886.jpg)
Packer Collegiate Institute (Brooklyn Heights), late 1800s
- Wells & N. Muller
Packer Collegiate Institute Records (2014.019.14.01.001)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/the-scars-and-relics-of-battle/5.1-bhs_m1983.16_1of5_a-1250x833.jpg)
Civil War Drum, 1861–1862
New York 56th Infantry Regiment
M1983.16.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/the-scars-and-relics-of-battle/5.1-bhs_2005_021box1folder14_1of3_a-815x1250.jpg)
Letter from Mary A. Herbert to Nathaniel Augustus Conklin, 1863
Conklin and Bedell families papers (2005.021)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/the-scars-and-relics-of-battle/5.1-BHS_1989_219_a_06534-1250x1000.jpg)
173rd Regiment New York Volunteers flag, after 1862
M1989.219.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/why-are-there-so-few-great-female-artists/4.4-bhs_m1974.241.1_w-1250x1021.jpg)
Joshua Marsden Van Cott, Jr., 1891
Susan Mary Norton
M1974.241.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/sea-beauty-stretchd-and-basking/4.3-bhs_waltwhitmanportait_a-767x1250.jpg)
Walt Whitman, 1856
Frontispiece of Leaves of Grass, second edition
PS 3201.1856
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/sea-beauty-stretchd-and-basking/4.3-bhs_v1972.1.562_a-1250x973.jpg)
View of Cedarmere, 1878
Elias Lewis Jr.
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection (V1972.1.562)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/sea-beauty-stretchd-and-basking/4.3-bhs_V1972.1.079_a-1250x779.jpg)
North Shore of Shelter Island, 1878
George B. Brainerd
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection (V1972.1.079)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/sea-beauty-stretchd-and-basking/4.3-bhs_m1974.104_a-1250x827.jpg)
Brooklyn in 1851, circa 1851
Francis H. Heinrich
M1974.104.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/sea-beauty-stretchd-and-basking/4.3-44D210DB.jpg)
William Cullen Bryant, circa 1841
Cornelius Ver Bryck
M1974.114.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/pleased-that-he-is-a-new-yorker/4.2-bhs_v1974.022.14.030_a-1250x905.jpg)
Old home of Poet Bloodgood Cutter, Little Neck, 1909
Eugene L. Armbruster photographs and scrapbooks (V1974.022.14.030)
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/pleased-that-he-is-a-new-yorker/4.2-bhs_m1991.415.1ab_1of2_a-1250x784.jpg)
Frederick W. Wurster mayoral campaign button, 1896
M1991.415.1a,b
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/pleased-that-he-is-a-new-yorker/4.2-bhs_li003381919_a-1250x485.jpg)
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/our-land-will-then-take-such-a-rise/4.1-bhs_v1972.1.197_a-1250x982.jpg)
Port Jefferson Rail Road Station, 1878
George B. Brainerd
V1972.1.197
Brooklyn Historical Society
![](https://longisland.brooklynhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/stories/our-land-will-then-take-such-a-rise/4.1-bhs_M1991.456.1_1of2_a-1250x606.jpg)
Hatchel, 18th century
Made in Newtown, Queens County, Long Island
M1991.456.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Roslyn Highlands Incorporated, New York, after 1892
L.I.-[189-?]a.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Map of Long Island showing the Long Island Railroad, 1884
Long Island Rail Road American Bank Note Company
L.I.-1884b.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Interior view of the Tile Lobby inside the Long Island Historical Society, after 1930
Ernest Tanare
V1974.031.62
Brooklyn Historical Society
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Marking Stamp, before 1985
M1997.23.1
Brooklyn Historical Society