What are research guides?
These guides connect researchers with the Center for Brooklyn History’s materials on popular topics. While the guides are not comprehensive, they help navigate the many collections, focusing on archival documents and including books, photographs, maps, oral histories, and more. The guides also recommend outside collections and institutions.
More research guides are in the works! To recommend a topic, please email us at cbhreference@bklynlibrary.org.
Database tutorials
Learn how to navigate some of our most used digital resources with the tutorials below.
- Brooklyn Newsstand
- Digital Collections
- Digitized Directories
- Fire Insurance Maps Online
- High School Newspapers
- Land Conveyance Collection
- Web Archive
- 128 Pierrepont Street
- Agriculture
- Black History
- Brooklyn Dodgers
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Civil Rights
- Civil War
- Coney Island & Gravesend
- Early Long Island History
- Family History and Genealogy
- Green-Wood Cemetery
- House and Building History
- Indigenous Peoples of Long Island and New York
- Jewish History
- LGBTQ+ History
- Library Collections
- Neighborhood Change and Gentrification
- Oral Histories
- Remote Research
- The Revolutionary War in Brooklyn
- Waterfront: Business and Manufacturing
- Waterfront: Ferries
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Research Projects and Online Exhibitions
Discover stories from the Center for Brooklyn History's archives, brought to life on the web.
Urban Archive
Explore our photographs through Urban Archive's interactive map. Select "Lists & Stories" from the drop-down menu for curated stories and walking tours.
COVID-19 Project
Learn about our work collecting digital content for our COVID-19 archive.
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