Colonial New York Close Up: Revisiting Bernard Ratzer's Plan of the City of New York
New to the Library Collection: Tauranac New York City Subway Maps
Our Martyr President: Theodore Cuyler on Abraham Lincoln's death
Our Christmas Tides from Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
My colleague John Zarillo, processing archivist here at BHS, recently announced the good news the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church records have been processed and made available to the public. He also surprised me with what can only be described as a cataloger’s bonus: at least 8 boxes of the Church’s book collection to be cataloged and placed in a special collections area in the library. Upon opening the first box, I was immediately struck by the superb condition of the books, some more than 100 years old. At first glance, there are editions of the many books published by LAPC’s…
Map of the Month--February 2015
Uncovering Historical Maps at Brooklyn Historical Society
As I wrap up cataloging the last few maps and polishing the last blog post for this phase of Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)-funded map cataloging for BHS, the time has come to let everyone know what we have accomplished in the last 17 months. The purpose of a CLIR Hidden Collections grant is to ‘uncover’ ‘hidden’ collections, by making previously uncataloged collections available for discovery on the Web. For libraries, this goal is achieved by the creation of MARC (machine-readable catalog) records for each item in the collection for inclusion in local and international…
Map of the Month - December 2014
Map of the Month--November 2014
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Map of the Month--July 2014
Mapping the first Red Scare: Ohman's map of 'racial colonies'
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