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American Indian woman with fish, 1689
Jasper Danckaerts
M1979.23.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
Long Island Historical Society, circa 1920-1930
Ernest Tanare
V1974.031.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
Executors’ sale of valuable property at Great Neck, L.I.
Journal Steam Printing, 1889
L.I.-[1889].Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
Self-portrait, late 19th century
Oliver Hazard Perry III
M1979.22.109
Brooklyn Historical Society
French and Indian War Powder horn, 1759
M1991.888.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
“Our Countrymen in Chains” broadside, 1837
M1975.383.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
A [Legal] Kalendar, or Table (London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1608)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Bloodgood Cutter
Inscription in The Long Island Farmer’s Poems (New York: N. Tibbals & Sons, 1886)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Bloodgood Cutter
The Long Island Farmer’s Poems (New York: N. Tibbals & Sons, 1886)
Brooklyn Historical Society
A Sermon preached at East-Hampton…at the Ordination of Mr. Samson Occum, 1761
BX7233.B7982 E8 1761
Brooklyn Historical Society
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
Journal of Roger Gill, 1698
1981.014
Brooklyn Historical Society
Order of Allegiance to the United Provinces and Prince of Orange, 1673
Townsend family papers (1974.021)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Interior of the Long Island Historical Society, circa 1960
Long Island Historical Society photographs (V1974.031.49)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Shore at Rocky Point, L.I. near East Marion, 1878
George B. Brainerd
V1972.1.140
Brooklyn Historical Society
Old Horton House, Southold, 1878
George B. Brainerd
V1972.1.42a
Brooklyn Historical Society
The Indian tribes of Long Island, circa 1934
Designed, compiled and lithographed by Victor G. Becker
L.I.-193.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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
Land deed for property near Smithtown between Wyandanch and Lion Gardiner, 1659
Smith families papers (ARC .244)
Brooklyn Historical Society
A [Legal] Kalendar, or Table (London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1608)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Desk Box (open lid), 1640–60
M1983.200.2
Brooklyn Historical Society
Diagram of the village of Southold, 1882
J.M. Case
L.I.-1882.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
Peter Stuyvesant, 1907
“Bushwick and her Neighbors Vol. 1” scrapbook
Eugene L. Armbruster photographs and scrapbooks (ARC.308)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Dagger and scabbard, 18th or 19th century
M1991.890.1a-c
Brooklyn Historical Society
American Indian woman with fish, 1689
Jasper Danckaerts
M1979.23.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
View of New York from the North (near Fulton Ferry), 1679
Jasper Danchaerts
M1979.23.4
Brooklyn Historical Society
New York, 1809
I. Luffman Strand
NYC-[18-?]a.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
Bentwood Box, 17th century or later
M1984.320.3
Brooklyn Historical Society
Friends Meeting House, Westbury, 1878
Elias Lewis Jr.
V1972.1290a
Brooklyn Historical Society
Map of the western part of the Township of Gravesend, 1800s
Teunis G. Bergen
Bergen-[18–?]uu.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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
Land deed in Dutch signed by Peter Stuyvesant, 1661
Lefferts family papers (ARC.145)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Chair following wood treatment, before upholstery work, 2019
Photo courtesy Fine Wood Conservation Inc.
Crest Rail after treatment, 2019
Photo courtesy Fine Wood Conservation Inc.
Damaged Crest Rail before treatment, 2109
Photo courtesy Fine Wood Conservation Inc.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, circa 1870
V1974.51.10
Brooklyn Historical Society
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Tilton anniversary party invitation, 1865
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC .212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn Heights, 1890–1900
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection (V1972.1.1040)
Brooklyn Historical Society
[Old Beecher Pulpit Chair], circa 1903
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC .212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Henry Ward Beecher and ‘Pinky,’ circa 1930-1932
Photograph after the original painting by Harry Roseland
V1974.39.51
Brooklyn Historical Society
“Mr. Beecher selling a beautiful slave girl in his pulpit,” circa 1896
Thure de Thulstrup
V1973.6.523
Brooklyn Historical Society
Sally Marie Diggs bill of sale, 1860
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC.212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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
“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
Henry Ward Beecher, circa 1870–80
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC.212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Henry Ward Beecher/Brooklyn souvenir spoon, 1866-1905
M1988.64.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
Lyman Beecher, undated
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims and Henry Ward Beecher collection (ARC.212)
Brooklyn Historical Society
“How the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Began,” 1914
Mary White Ovington
Richetta Randolph Wallace papers (1978.137)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Mary White Ovington, 20th century
Richetta Randolph Wallace papers (1978.137)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Poor & Insane Asylum, 1878
George B. Brainerd
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection (V1972.1.34)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair, Interior view of Academy of Music, 1864
Brown & Co., lithographer
M1975.17.3
Brooklyn Historical Society
Tin-glazed earthenware tile, 17th or 18th century
M1984.273.2
Brooklyn Historical Society
Long Island Historical Society Request for Fair Donations, 1864
Women’s Relief Association Records (ARC.245)
Brooklyn Historical Society
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
Circular and Catalogue of the Brooklyn Female Academy, 1849
Packer Collegiate Institute Records (2014.019)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Packer Collegiate Institute (Brooklyn Heights), late 1800s
- Wells & N. Muller
Packer Collegiate Institute Records (2014.019.14.01.001)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Civil War Drum, 1861–1862
New York 56th Infantry Regiment
M1983.16.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
Letter from Mary A. Herbert to Nathaniel Augustus Conklin, 1863
Conklin and Bedell families papers (2005.021)
Brooklyn Historical Society
173rd Regiment New York Volunteers flag, after 1862
M1989.219.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
Joshua Marsden Van Cott, Jr., 1891
Susan Mary Norton
M1974.241.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
Walt Whitman, 1856
Frontispiece of Leaves of Grass, second edition
PS 3201.1856
Brooklyn Historical Society
View of Cedarmere, 1878
Elias Lewis Jr.
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection (V1972.1.562)
Brooklyn Historical Society
North Shore of Shelter Island, 1878
George B. Brainerd
Early Brooklyn and Long Island photograph collection (V1972.1.079)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn in 1851, circa 1851
Francis H. Heinrich
M1974.104.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
William Cullen Bryant, circa 1841
Cornelius Ver Bryck
M1974.114.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
Old home of Poet Bloodgood Cutter, Little Neck, 1909
Eugene L. Armbruster photographs and scrapbooks (V1974.022.14.030)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Frederick W. Wurster mayoral campaign button, 1896
M1991.415.1a,b
Brooklyn Historical Society
Port Jefferson Rail Road Station, 1878
George B. Brainerd
V1972.1.197
Brooklyn Historical Society
Hatchel, 18th century
Made in Newtown, Queens County, Long Island
M1991.456.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
Roslyn Highlands Incorporated, New York, after 1892
L.I.-[189-?]a.Fl
Brooklyn Historical Society
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
Interior view of the Tile Lobby inside the Long Island Historical Society, after 1930
Ernest Tanare
V1974.031.62
Brooklyn Historical Society
Marking Stamp, before 1985
M1997.23.1
Brooklyn Historical Society
