Opening the Pocket Doors: Everybody Has Those Days
Katherine, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist
Brooklyn Historical Society Staff, circa 1990. Brooklyn Historical Society Institutional Records, ARC 288. Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.Have you ever felt like this at work? The real question is, what exactly is the person in the photograph feeling and expressing? Why was this photograph taken? To me, this photograph evokes extreme frustration, possibly having to do with their work or with their computer. But to different people, the picture could evoke different emotions, such as exhaustion or perhaps even pain from a headache. Unfortunately, we don’t have any more…
Opening the Pocket Doors: Here’s to Baseball!
Opening the Pocket Doors: The Enthusiastic Catalogers Department
Katherine, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist
Brooklyn Historical Society Staff, circa 1994. Brooklyn Historical Society Institutional Records, ARC 288. Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.Did your favorite singer release an album recently and use an image of a card catalog to promote said album? Are you not entirely sure what a card catalog actually is? Not to worry, we are here to explain! Let’s first look at the word catalog: for the purpose of libraries at its most basic level, it is an organized list of books held by a specific library. Prior to cards, library catalogs were recorded in books. But as…
Opening the Pocket Doors: Voices of Brooklyn
Opening the Pocket Doors: Adopt-A-Block
Opening the Pocket Doors: A History of Education at the Brooklyn Historical Society
Opening the Pocket Doors: Say Cheese!
Katherine, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist
Opening the Pocket Doors: What Could Have Been
Katherine, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist
Opening the Pocket Doors: A Stained Glass Mystery
Opening the Pocket Doors: A Room of (Our) Own
Katherine, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist
Opening the Pocket Doors: Get Out Your Camera!
Opening the Pocket Doors: Save the Clock Tower!
Katherine, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist
Opening the Pocket Doors: A Peek Inside the Vault
Opening the Pocket Doors: Humble Beginnings at the Hamilton
Katherine, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist
Opening the Pocket Doors: The Trails and Trials of Miss Edna Huntington
Opening the Pocket Doors: Underneath the Floorboards
Katherine, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist
Opening the Pocket Doors: The Women’s Committee of the Long Island Historical Society
Opening the Pocket Doors: Celebrating Presidents' Day with President Susan Mullin
Katherine, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist, Leon Levy Senior Processing Archivist
Opening the Pocket Doors: What Past Exhibitions Reveal
Opening the Pocket Doors: Ba Da Dao/Sunset Park Chinatown History Project
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