Exhibitions

The 2025 Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition
2026 EJK Bookmaking Competition Exhibition
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Emma Fisher- Blackthorn Woods, Courtesy the artist.
Once Upon a Page: Highlights from the School of Visual Arts’ MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Program
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Letters for the Future
Department of Transformation: Letters for the Future
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Central Library
Banner with Student and judge looking at History Day Project
New York City History Day Showcase
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Center for Brooklyn History
12 visual representations of items from CBH's collection
Centering Collections: Recent Work at CBH
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Center for Brooklyn History
A collage of Moomins characters on a pink background
Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open
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Central Library
BOROUGH WINNER: An Introvert Like Me, Xiaoyan Wang
2025 EJK Bookmaking Competition Exhibition
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Image Courtesy Alva Mooses.
Mother Tongues
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Central Library
Oluizmz by Shane W. Evans. Image courtesy the artist.
Our Dream… The Art of Shane W. Evans
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn
Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn
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Center for Brooklyn History
Memories Matter
Memories Matter
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Center for Brooklyn History
Sedat Pakay, Baldwin Sitting on top of Bertice Reading's Triumph Herald Sports Car Surrounded by Admirers. Image Courtesy Hudson Film Works II.
Turkey Saved My Life - Baldwin in Istanbul, 1961–1971
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Central Library
The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience. Image:Clarkson Potter/Penguin Random House
The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience
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Central Library
Banner with Student and judge looking at History Day Project
New York City History Day Showcase
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Center for Brooklyn History
Joe Namy, Libretto-o-o: A Curtain Design in the Bright Sunshine Heavy in Love. Courtesy the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection.
Joe Namy: Heavy with Love
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Central Library
Team Pom, Courtesy Isabel Roxas

Isabel Roxas: How Squid Happened

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Central Library, Youth Wing
Kindness Between Corals, Julia J. Balatsko
2024 EJK Bookmaking Competition Exhibition
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Central Library
Shirley Chisholm portrait by Eric Velasquez. Courtesy the Artist.
Eric Velasquez: Phenomenal Figures
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Crown Heights 1991. By Sylvia Plachy
It happened in New York: Photographs by Sylvia Plachy
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Central Library
Brooklyn Miniaturists
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Center for Brooklyn History
My Mother Was a Nanny : Paintings from the Book by Laura James
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Brooklyn Is... web header
Brooklyn Is...
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Center for Brooklyn History
BPL plaza
The Book of HOV: A celebration of the life and work of Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter
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Central Library
The 2023 Annual Ezra Jack Keats / NYC Public Schools Bookmaking Competition
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Bundith Phunsombatlert: Mapping Fragments
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Central Library
Bryan Collier: Dreamwalker
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Youmna Chlala: Future Flora
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Central Library
Tammy Nguyen: O
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Central Library
Katie Yamasaki: Shapes, Lines, and Light
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Bibliobandido Bites Brooklyn!
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Central Library
The 36th Annual Ezra Jack Keats / NYC Department of Education Bookmaking Competition
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Central Library, Youth Wing
"Safe + Affirmed" by Barnabas Crosby (Brian Vines, freelance journalist + Marcee Rogers, hairdresser
Barnabas Crosby: Holding Court
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Central Library
Smita Sen: The Manipura Sanctum
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Central Library
Image courtesy John Huba.
Lenapehoking
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Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center
StoryWalk:Lola Plants a Garden
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Adams Street Library
Work by young artists, New Lots Library
Young Artists from P.S. 202
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New Lots Library
StoryWalk: The Day You Begin
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Gerritsen Beach Library
Brooklyn Resists: Online Exhibition Introduction
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Center for Brooklyn History
Pop-up StoryWalks at Central Library
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Central Library
StoryWalk of Whistle for Willie
StoryWalk: Whistle for Willie
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New Lots Library
StoryWalk: The Bear Ate Your Sandwich
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Bushwick Library
The Librarian in Congress: The Life and Work of Major Owens
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Central Library
Chloë Bass: The Parts
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Central Library
I Wish to Say, Charlotte, NC, 2012, Democratic National Convention.Photo: Bechtler
I Wish to Say
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Central Library
Outdoor Living Room
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Central Library
"Earth: Our Only Home" by Sophia Wright, Grade 4
The 34th Annual Ezra Jack Keats / NYC Department of Education Bookmaking Competition
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Stars Down to Earth // Mary Mattingly & Dario Robleto
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Central Library
¡Mil Gracias!: The Art and Illustration of John Parra
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Central Library
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: An Exploration of Our Plant Life and Green Spaces
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Beautiful Words Are Subversive, BPL Exhibition
Beautiful Words Are Subversive // Black Chalk & Co.
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Central Library
James Ransome: Country Roads, City Streets
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Food Fit for Kings County: The Culinary History of Brooklyn
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An Opening: A Sound and Art Installation by Kameelah Janan Rasheed
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Center for Brooklyn History
Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance 1981-82, February 16–March 12, 1983 Collection of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Franklin Furnace: Performance is Public
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Central Library
Brooklyn Connections 2019 Student Projects
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Taking Care of Brooklyn: Stories of Sickness and Health
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Center for Brooklyn History
A Queer Look at Brooklyn
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Center for Brooklyn History
The 33rd Annual Ezra Jack Keats / NYC Department of Education Bookmaking Competition
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Central Library, Youth Wing
The Photographs of Builder Levy: Humanity in the Streets
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Center for Brooklyn History
Photo Requests from Solitary
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Central Library
The Works of Walt Whitman, BPL Exhibition
The Works of Walt Whitman
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The Biggest Party in the World! ©Emma Vitoria Pokorny
Storymakers Exhibition Award Winners
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Central Library, Youth Wing
On the (Queer) Waterfront: The Factories, Freaks, Sailors, & Sex Workers of Brooklyn
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Center for Brooklyn History
PAPER ANIMALS by Kevin Waldron
PAPER ANIMALS by Kevin Waldron
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Scoring the Stacks
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Central Library
Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco
Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco
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Reclamation II: Ruddy Roye & Curtis Talwst Santiago
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Central Library
©Christopher Silas Neal
Just One More Layer by Christopher Silas Neal
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Genesis Báez, Mapping, 2017, archival pigment print.
Reclamation/Reclamación: Genesis Báez
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Central Library
Photograph of Mr. Racioppo by Anna Delany
Larry Racioppo: A Retrospective
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Central Library
Siglio Press: A Feminist Ethos
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Central Library
Brooklyn Connections: An Annual Student Research Project Exhibition
Brooklyn Connections: Annual Student Research Project Exhibition
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Brooklyn: A New Home, A New Life
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Center for Brooklyn History
Shifting Perspectives: Photographs of Brooklyn's Waterfront
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Center for Brooklyn History
Image Courtesy Molly Crabapple/ One World/Penguin Random House
Molly Crabapple & Marwan Hisham: Syria in Ink
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"The Serpent," from "Monsters of Mythology: A-Z" by Jayvaughn Hall (Grade 12, 2017 boroughwide winner)
The 32nd Annual Ezra Jack Keats / NYC Department of Education Bookmaking Competition
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Beyond the Boardwalk: The Other Side of Coney Island
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The Business of Brooklyn
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Center for Brooklyn History
Waterfront
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Center for Brooklyn History
Badges of Honor: Brooklyn’s Protectors
Badges of Honor: Brooklyn’s Protectors
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Enacting Change: Women’s Activism in Brooklyn
Enacting Change: Women’s Activism in Brooklyn
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Sneaker for Social Justice - Workshop 3: Sneaker Customization
Sneakers for Social Justice: The Capsule Collection
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Central Library, Youth Wing
The Means of a Ready Escape: Brooklyn's Prospect Park
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Center for Brooklyn History
Making New Friends by Matthew Sporzynski, BPL Exhibition
Making New Friends by Matthew Sporzynski
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Central Library, Youth Wing
Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe, BPL Exhibition
Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe
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Wise Eyes: Still Woke
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Center for Brooklyn History
BPL_Brooklyn Collection_0311
Brooklyn Connections Exhibition
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Laura Wang 2015 winner, the 31st Annual Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition
The 31st Annual Ezra Jack Keats / NYC Department of Education Bookmaking Competition
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Central Library
Until Everyone Has it Made: Jackie Robinson's Legacy
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Center for Brooklyn History
BPL_exhibit_Amos Kennedy, Jr
Puttin' Ink on Paper by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. - Letterpress printer
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BPL exhibit_Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr
Quotations of Rosa Louise Parks & Church Fans by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. - Letterpress printer
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Central Library
Prospect Park 1
150 Years of Prospect Park
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BPL exhibit_b.b. cronin_bear
The Lost Art of b.b. cronin
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Central Library
BRIC Biennial_BPL exhibit_Special Project
BRIC Biennial: Volume II, Bed-Stuy/Crown Heights Edition Special Project - The Barbershops by Hidemi Takagi
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Central Library
BRIC Biennial_BPL exhibit
BRIC Biennial: Volume II, Bed-Stuy/Crown Heights Edition
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Central Library
facing pages by Nina Meledandri
facing pages by Nina Meledandri
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Central Library
Hawks and Handsaws by Ken Buhler
Hawks and Handsaws: A series of watercolors and prints from Shakespeare's Garden and Birdlands, by Ken Buhler
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Central Library
The Shape of Sound: The Picture Book Art of Sean Qualls
The Shape of Sound: The Picture Book Art of Sean Qualls by Sean Qualls
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Central Library
Jump In with Shadra Strickland, BPL exhibition
Jump In with Shadra Strickland
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Central Library
Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie
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Center for Brooklyn History
Splash! Snuffle! Shhh! by Julia Sarcone-Roach, Curated by Michele Jaslow
Splash! Snuffle! Shhh! by Julia Sarcone-Roach, Curated by Michele Jaslow
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Central Library
BPL_Treasures of Childhood: Books from the Hunt Collection
Treasures of Childhood: Books from the Hunt Collection of Children's Literature, Curated by Leonard S. Marcus
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Central Library
Celebrating Sunset Park: Café Loré by John Milisenda, BPL Exhibition
Celebrating Sunset Park: Café Loré by John Milisenda
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Central Library
Celebrating Sunset Park: The New Immigrant Experience by Larry Siegel
Celebrating Sunset Park: The New Immigrant Experience by Larry Siegel
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Central Library
Ripples: Making Water with Paper by Chris Perry, BPL Exhibition
Ripples: Making Water with Paper by Chris Perry
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Central Library
The Book as Process by Lynne Buschman, BPL Exhibition
The Book as Process by Lynne Buschman
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Central Library
Wedding Album by Christopher Spinelli, BPL Exhibition
Wedding Album by Christopher Spinelli
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Central Library
Celebrating Agwe, BPL Exhibition
Celebrating Agwe: Paying Homage to the Vodou God of Water in Brooklyn by Garry Pierre-Pierre
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Central Library
EJK Bookmaking Competition, BPL Exhibition
The 30th Annual Ezra Jack Keats / NYC Department of Education Bookmaking Competition - Happy 100th Birthday, Ezra Jack Keats!
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Central Library
April Is the Cruelest Month, BPL Exhibition
April Is the Cruelest Month by Ilisa Katz Rissman
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Central Library
The Turn of the Page, BPL Exhibition
The Turn of the Page curated by Pat Cummings
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Central Library
Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963
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Center for Brooklyn History
Dialogues in the Visual Arts, BPL Series
Dialogues in the Visual Arts, Series III, Program Curator Susan Newmark Fleminger
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Central Library
Celebrating Forty Years of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, BPL Exhibition
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Celebrating Forty Years of Mildred D. Taylor’s Newbery Medal Winning Classic Novel
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Central Library
The Art of Kadir Nelson, BPL Exhibition
The Art of Kadir Nelson
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Central Library
Tree Falls In Brooklyn by Eric Pesso, BPL Exhibition
A Tree Falls In Brooklyn by Eric Pesso
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Central Library
I ♥ New York by Noboo Kawaguchi, BPL Exhibition
I ♥ New York by Noboo Kawaguchi
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Central Library
Open, and Closed: The Book Art of John Frederick Walker, BPL Exhibition
Open, and Closed: The Book Art of John Frederick Walker
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Central Library
BPL Exhibition_Tempo of China
"Tempo of China" and "China, the Great Wall Vestiges"
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Central Library
Hidden in Plain Sight: Portraits of Hunger in NYC
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Center for Brooklyn History
Brooklyn Americans: Hockey's Forgotten Promise
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Center for Brooklyn History
Brooklyn Remembered: The Watercolors of James Ryder Van Brunt
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Center for Brooklyn History
Gaining Access: The New York City Disability Rights Movement
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Center for Brooklyn History
Sewers: What's Up Down There?
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Center for Brooklyn History
Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn
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Center for Brooklyn History
Mapping Brooklyn
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Center for Brooklyn History
We the People: The Citizens of NYCHA in Photos + Words
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Center for Brooklyn History
Wonder: First Encounters with Green-Wood
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Center for Brooklyn History
Full Steam Ahead: 200 Years of Ferries in Brooklyn
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Center for Brooklyn History
She said, She said: Art and inspiration in the work of Nell Painter and Lucille Fornasieri Gold
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Center for Brooklyn History
Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom
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Center for Brooklyn History
Documenting Sandy
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Center for Brooklyn History
Sweet Industries: Refining What We Know
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Center for Brooklyn History
Say Cheese! Portraits to Pics
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Center for Brooklyn History
Inventing Brooklyn: People, Places, Progress
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Center for Brooklyn History
Artist and Artifact: Re|Visioning Brooklyn's Past
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Center for Brooklyn History
Painting Brooklyn: Stories of Immigration and Survival
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Center for Brooklyn History
Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field
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Center for Brooklyn History
Tivoli: A Place We Call Home
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Center for Brooklyn History
Brooklyn Utopias?
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Center for Brooklyn History
No Jheri Curls & No Drugs: A David Lee Photo Exhibition
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Center for Brooklyn History
Pages of the Past: The Breukelen Adventures of Jasper Danckaerts
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Center for Brooklyn History
Living and Learning: Chinese Immigration, Restriction, & Community in Brooklyn, 1850 to Present
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Center for Brooklyn History
Suspended Over Time: Brooklyn Bridge's 125th Anniversary
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Center for Brooklyn History
Lost in Transition: South Brooklyn, Williamsburg, and Coney Island
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Center for Brooklyn History
Reflections on Community Development: Stories from Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
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Center for Brooklyn History
Brooklyn Redrawn
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Center for Brooklyn History
In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn's Vietnam Veterans
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Center for Brooklyn History
Mother Goose in an Air-Ship: McLoughlin Bros. 19th Century Children's Books from the Liman Collection
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Center for Brooklyn History
Sacred Hearts: A Journey of Italian Catholics in the Borough of Churches
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Center for Brooklyn History
The Secret Lives of Streets Exhibition Laboratory: Teen Organized Exhibit
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Center for Brooklyn History
Up From Flames: Mapping the Recovery of Bushwick 1977-2007
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Center for Brooklyn History
It Happened in Brooklyn
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Center for Brooklyn History

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