BLS librarians are developing this guide page. In February, we plan to visit our colleagues at the Center for Brooklyn History to learn more about this Center's materials to support historical research on Law and Capitalism.
2020: Center for Brooklyn History formed, combining materials collected for 150+ years by Brooklyn Historical Society + "Brooklyn Collection” of Brooklyn Public Library.
Tip: Below are overviews of/links to digital photograph collections, digital collections of oral histories and donated personal items, and digital collections of artifacts/records:
Tip: Center for Brooklyn History provides helpful research guides.
The Center for Brooklyn History has a research guide for their archives related to the the Indigenous Peoples of Long Island and New York. This guide states the archive includes "materials ranging from the mid-1600s through the mid-20th century. Most materials concern the four Long Island counties (Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk), but places farther afield are also occasionally represented, including New York State, the South, the American West and Mexico....The materials in these collections are primarily from the perspective of European Americans, and cover their attitude toward and relations with the Indigenous peoples of Long Island and the surrounding area. Resources from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, or that reliably document what Brooklyn was like pre-contact, are exceedingly rare."
The majority of the archives are not digitized and can be viewed at the Center for Brooklyn History by appointment.
To make an appointment, email cbhreference@bklynlibrary.org.
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