Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Postcards 1905-1907 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738535319)

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.

Author: Richard L. Dutton
ISBN-10: 0738535311
ISBN-13: 9780738535319
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2004
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.46w x 0.34d