Blog Posts tagged as: Emigration and Immigration

posters from antiracist family day

All Are Welcome at the Library: Resources for Talking to Kids about ICE

Jessica Ralli, Manager of Early Literacy Programs and Special Initiatives

Signs from a Justice Art Build activity at a BPL event for families. 
 All are welcome at the library.At Brooklyn Public Library, we serve families with many different backgrounds, languages, and immigration stories. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity impacts our communities—locally or nationally—it can affect children in real ways, shaping their questions, worries, and behavior as they absorb the stress and concern felt by adults around them. Immigration enforcement actions can be especially traumatic for young…

Faces of a Family in 19th Century New York: the Ramus Collection

Deborah

Isaac and Esther Ramus around 1855. bhs_v1978.174.38. Ramus family papers and photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
The first set of photographs originating from the former Brooklyn Historical Society to be featured  in the Center for Brooklyn History digital portal is the Ramus family collection.   It is a tantalizing set of images rich in examples of fashionable dress between 1848 and 1910 and a variety of photographic techniques including daguerreotypes, tintypes,…