Brooklyn Historical Society

Getting some#Brooklyn shopping done! @MastBrothers #BrooklynBlend chocolate & #GnomeEnterprises shirt & onesie

Beauty from a thousand cuts. From Mapping Brooklyn exhibit at Brooklyn Historical Society.

Getting ready to jam with @lloydeelloyd & celebrate his new #CivilWar album @brooklynhistory #SingBackBrooklyn

Researching Greenwood sux but low key obsessed with the cover of this book tbh

Thank you @lloydeelloyd for our autographed Civil War CD! #SingBackBrooklyn

One of the prettier spots in Brooklyn.

"A View from Gowanus Heights" #BKstaycation

Lisa Miller presenting an 1827 pocket map of tiny, "humble" Brooklyn #BHSarchives

By 1898, a more modern guidebook - annual editions, photos (not engravings), nightlife/slumming, trying not to stick out as a tourist. #BHSarchives

Apparently by 1887, unfashionable people have found their way up to Saratoga. The springs are so 1827, guys. #BHSarchives

Is that two guys or a guy and girl?

Tourists, beware! Three pages of advice on visiting NYC in 1873. #BHSarchives

The Hotel Brighton changed Coney Island from "unsavory" to the place to be for 19th cent gents. #BHSarchives

First non-pocket-sized tourist guide features this eve - a coffee table book published by LIRR to entice city dwellers to take a train somewhere fun! #BHSarchives

Squeezing 3 ads around the listings in this 1888 Brooklyn directory #BHSarchives @brooklynhistory