Brownstoner Book Club: Historic Photos of Brooklyn
[nggallery id=”24200″ template=galleryview] Brooklyn was once known as the City of Churches, but John B. Manbeck’s new book, Historic Photos of Brooklyn (It’s part of a “Historic Photos” series from the publisher), documents more than religious structures. He’s gathered nearly 200 rare photographs from the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Public Library, Kingsborough Historical Society, Library…
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Brooklyn was once known as the City of Churches, but John B. Manbeck’s new book, Historic Photos of Brooklyn (It’s part of a “Historic Photos” series from the publisher), documents more than religious structures. He’s gathered nearly 200 rare photographs from the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Public Library, Kingsborough Historical Society, Library of Congress, and New York State Archives. Shots include the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge and the opening of the Brooklyn Dodgers. But getting back to the nickname, they sent us a sneak preview of some of the Borough’s beloved churches.
The second image is of Plymouth Church in the Heights.
This is great. I’d be interested in knowing which churches those are, as well. Anyone know?
Cobblehiller– I think I read that he’s speaking at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Can you tell us what these are photos of? A couple of these look familiar to me, but I’d rather not guess.
Steve – check out the flea. I bought a great print of the Willamsburgh Savings Bank from Brian Merlis’s collection and they had lots of other Brooklyn prints. The shop is Metro Orange Art.
http://www.metroorangeart.com/
Here’s something on Brian Merlis:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE5DC123BF937A1575AC0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/P/Photography
Does anyone carry these photos available for framing? I’m looking to do an “old Brooklyn” wall of photos here.
And in the spirit of ecumenical blogging, I should mention that I just came across this book recently which has beautiful prints of tons of old synagogues in Brooklyn”
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Pillars-Practice-Kindness-Synagogues/dp/1576874133
http://www.brooklynpix.com/
Manbeck is a real local treasure, can’t wait to see his book. I wonder if he’ll speak somewhere about it?