| Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Postcards 1905-1907 Contributor(s): Dutton, Richard L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738535311 ISBN-13: 9780738535319 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2004 Annotation: Between 1905 and 1907, Brooklyn's leading newspaper, the Daily Eagle, published a remarkable series of almost five hundred postcards, most with photographs of local scenes. Brooklyn in that era was, as it is today, a place of great variety, with imposing factories, sprawling riverfront sugar refineries, scores of public schools, elaborate mansions, and hundreds of blocks of middle-class brownstone row houses side by side with public wood yards, free-floating baths, the county jail, reformatories, and hospitals. Brooklyn was known as "the borough of churches," and grand religious edifices of all denominations stood on nearly every corner. For recreation, there were social clubs, acres of beautifully landscaped public parks graced by statues of heroes of the past, and the teeming midways and beaches of Coney Island. All of this is captured in Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Postcards 19051907. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) |
| Dewey: 974.723 |
| LCCN: 2003116546 |
| Series: Postcard History |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.46" W x 9.2" (0.65 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: Between 1905 and 1907, Brooklyn's leading newspaper, the Daily Eagle, published a remarkable series of almost five hundred postcards, most with photographs of local scenes. Brooklyn in that era was, as it is today, a place of great variety, with imposing factories, sprawling riverfront sugar refineries, scores of public schools, elaborate mansions, and hundreds of blocks of middle-class brownstone row houses side by side with public wood yards, free-floating baths, the county jail, reformatories, and hospitals. Brooklyn was known as "the borough of churches," and grand religious edifices of all denominations stood on nearly every corner. For recreation, there were social clubs, acres of beautifully landscaped public parks graced by statues of heroes of the past, and the teeming midways and beaches of Coney Island. All of this is captured in Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Postcards 1905-1907. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dutton, Richard L.: - Author Richard L. Dutton, who grew up in Flatbush, has selected some two hundred Daily Eagle postcards to take the reader on a fascinating tour of the borough as it was in the early part of the twentieth century. |