The winter wonderland photograph, which captures Prospect Park in 1904, is one of many amazing images in Historic Photos of Brooklyn, which appears on a blanket crocheted (past tense here a bit tricky) by my grandmother Mary K. I'm finding the book, which contains some images on view for the first time, too rich to consume in one sitting. A note on the compiler, who wrote the text and captions:
John B. Manbeck Brooklyn Borough Historian between 1993 and 2002, taught English and Journalism at Kingsborough Community College for 32 years. In 1997, he was appointed chairman of the Mayor's Department of Records, Research and Information Services Advisory Board, and in 2002 appointed to the New York State Local Historian Advisory Council.The last image, a macro from The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Volume II P-Z, speaks for itself.
Historic Photos of Brooklyn was published by Turner Publishing Co. in 2008.
3 comments:
That must have been quite a snowstorm back in 1904!
I just came upon your blog -- through "Old First"
Your photography and comments are wonderful.
I know... knithound. Did you hear? I've become a nit hound! Or nit nurse, as they used to be called. Looks like the lice scapades have ended, thank god. But I'm a little scared of white things now.
Thanks so much for your complements, cotton wool! Love the name, can't wait to visit.
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