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Manhattan Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge, New York |
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Brooklyn Bridge, New York |
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Approach to Brooklyn Bridge, N. Y. Postmarked 1910 |
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Brooklyn Bridge, New York Postmarked 1909 |
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Brooklyn Bridge New York Postmarked 1906 |
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Brooklyn Bridge, New York No postmark |
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Bird's Eye view of Brooklyn and City Hall No date |
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Deutsches Lutherisches Emigranten Haus, State Street, New York |
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Generously shared by Bob April 2009
"Lutheran Emigrants' House Association (incorp. 1871) 26 State St. Maintains the EMIGRANT House, in which emigrants of any nationality, who will comply with the rules of the House, are boarded and lodged at nominal prices for those able to pay; others are cared for free until employment is found." | |
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Borough Hall Station Picture of first train run through tube which is 90 feet under bed of East River No date |
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| Clinton Street, 1874 Clinton Street runs between Brooklyn Heights and Red Hook | |
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| Brooklyn Heights with Harbor in background, 1874
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Other Areas of Brooklyn
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Wallabout Market, Brooklyn, N. Y. No date The Wallabout Market was near the Brooklyn Navy Yards |
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| New York Bay, from Green Wood Cemetery, 1874
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| NY public library digital gallery Brooklyn Orphan Asylum Gertrude Kettler and her younger brother, Frederic, were placed in the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum on Wednesday October 21 1896. Their father, Fritz, had died in 1889 and their mother, Hannah Peter/Petersen Kettler, remarried in 1898 to Johannus Jensen, a Dane with a daughter and a son. Two years after the marriage Gertrude and her brother, Fred were still at the Brooklyn Orphans Asylum while Hanna and her youngest son, Henry, were living with Johannus Jensen and his children in Hoboken. Gertrude was discharged from the orphanage on Wednesday April 3, 1901. Frederic was discharged from the orphanage on Monday September 16, 1901. See Gertrude Ketter Blanck The Brooklyn Orphan Asylum was on Atlantic Avenue near Kingston street. | |
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Life in Red Hood, Brooklyn mid to late 1800s
Churches and other institutions in Red Hook
Industry in Red Hook mid to late 1800s
By 1920 the five houses between 3 and 9 Second Place were inhabited by Swedes and Norwegians:
- 3, Norwegian family
- 3 A, the Gunderson boarding house Swedes and Norwegians,
- 5, the Johnson boarding house Swedes and Norwegian
- 7, Norwegian family
- 7A, The Knudson boading house - Swedes and Norwegians 9, Not known
Norwegians in Red Hook
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