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Halsey Theater
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Halsey Theater, built in 1912. This movie house showed vaudeville and silent movies. The theater was closed in 1943 and turned over to house a manufacturing business. It was demolished in 1967.
Public School 137
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Public School 137 Brooklyn, ca. 1900. This C.B.J Snyder-built school was completed circa 1905. Today it still stands and is named for Rachel Jean Mitchell, a local mother, President of the Community School Board for District 23, and advocate for PTAs in all of Brooklyn District 23 schools.
St. Matthew Glorious United Church of God
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Halsey Street Station, BMT Jamaica Line
\[Halsey Street Station: BMT Jamaica Line] Center of the eastbound platform of the Halsey Street station on the BMT Jamaica Line, Brooklyn, NY.
Halsey Theater
Halsey Theatre Architectural rendering of Halsey Theatre, located at 928 Halsey Street, which opened in 1926 and closed in 1945.
805 MacDonough Street
New station Caption: "New station--Postmaster Quigley, right, opens the new Halsey Station of the post office at 905 MacDonough St. with him is J. M. O'Brien, Assistant Postmaster." Image includes two other unidentified men standing in far left.
Lutheran Church of Our Saviour
\[Interior of Lutheran Church of Our Savior] Interior, Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 21 Covert Street, with many rows of pews, front door, balcony, stained glass windows, chandelier, globed lights hanging from ceiling, and portion of ceiling.
Lutheran Church of Our Saviour
\[Interior of Lutheran Church of Our Savior] Interior, Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 21 Covert Street, with many rows of pews, altar, pulpit and hymn sign in front, right, lectern and pipe organ in front, left, stained glass windows, chendelier, globed lights hanging from ceiling, and portion of ceiling.
Lutheran Church of Our Saviour
English Lutheran Church of Our Savior Facade and tower of Lutheran Church of Our Savior, 21 Covert Street, with two trees in foreground.
1251 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn: Weirfield St. - Bushwick Ave. Weirfield Street and Bushwick Avenue, n.e. cor. Brooklyn. P. L. Sperr, photographer August 3, 1941 Neg. No. A-1090
1313 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn: Covert Street - Bushwick Avenue Covert Street, west side, at and north of Buswick Ave. 1923\. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
103 Saratoga Avenue
Brooklyn: Saratoga Avenue - Decatur Street 103-121 Saratoga Ave., east side, between Decatur and Bainbridge Streets. April 20, 1936. P. L. Sperr.
970 Decatur Street
Brooklyn: Decatur Street - Broadway St. -o-tk DECAW:BENE PE0R CNUAOA Rose Nnit Shop is at 966 3ecatur Photogra;her: P.L.Sperr Awg31941 Hdentfed by: P. Distenfeld Nieg Ae1ay YorestHills,N.Y. May 12,1968
Public School 137
Brooklyn: Saratoga Avenue - Chauncey Street Saratoga Avenue, east side, from Chauncey to Bainbridge Street, showing Public School No. 137. Board of Education of the City of New York June 25, 1931
Public School 137
Public School No. 137, Saratoga Avenue and Bainbridge Street.
Public School 137
P.S. 137 Facade of PS 137, a large, four-story, masonry building located at 121 Saratoga Avenue, with several pedestrians, two utility poles, street signs, and street lamp in foreground.
Public School 137
Public School 137
PS 137 Facade of PS 137, a large, four-story, masonry building located at 121 Saratoga Avenue, with portions of other buildings on both sides, group of school children standing in front of side entrance, and several other children, two utility poles, horse-drawn wagon, and intersecting streets in foreground.
Howard Zinn’s onetime residence
Howard Zinn’s onetime residence
1383 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Bushwick Avenue Cooper Street, at the N.W. corner of Bushwick Ave., showing Cooper Hall at the corner. April 1929. Eugene L. Armbruster Cellection.
656 MacDonough Street
Cleaning up job Woman holds, and Black man attaches, sign ("A clean block is a good block") to iron fence; tools on pavement in foreground; row of apartment houses in left background; large tree in right background. Caption: "Cleaning up job--Homer Johnston, 706 MacDonough \[sic] St. fastens sign of civic pride to fence in front of 656 MacDonough St. with assist from Mrs. Louis Ruggiero, a resident of latter address. He's president and she is assistant secretary of the 600 MacDonough Association, which is promoting the clean-up campaign." (Street name is really McDonough Street.).
Pauli Murray’s former home
Pauli Murray’s former home
Pauli Murray’s former home
543 Evergreen Avenue
Buildings at the corner of Evergreen Avenue and Jefferson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, undated (ca. 1920). In snow.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Bushwick Avenue - Cooper Street, northwest corner
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Brooklyn: Cooper Street - Bushwick Avenue St. Ihomas P.5. Church, n.e. corner of Cooper St. & Bushwick Ave., B'klyn. AuG. 3, 1941 P.L. Sperr, photographer
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
St. Thomas Church Interior, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 1405 Bushwick Avenue, with pews, chancel, altar, pulpit on right, front, lectern on left, front.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
St. Thomas Church Interior, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 1405 Bushwick Avenue, with pews, chancel, altar, pulpit on right, front, lectern on left, front.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Proposed St. Thomas P. E. Church Rendering (drawing) of proposed St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 1405 Bushwick Avenue.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
\[Altar of St. Thomas Episcopal Church] Altar and mosaic reredos, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 1405 Bushwick Avenue. Altar holds several objects including two candles in candlesticks, two small vases, open book, chalice, vessel (perhaps containing holy water) and closed book. Reredos decorated with alpha (left), cross (center), and omega (right).
Bushwick M.E. Church
Bushwick Avenue M. E. Church Pen and ink rendering (drawing) of the Bushwick Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Bushwick Avenue and Madison Street.
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