Our staff and volunteers are processing an Ohioan's photo album from the 20th century and there are great images, like this one taken from the Empire State Building in 1934, of the many places the owner visited. They seemed to have travelled a lot and took lots of pictures.

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đź“· Inverted image of lightning striking the , unknown, 1930s.

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Mr. Lee · @mrlee
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Early 1970s newspaper ad for occult bookstore The Warlock Shop in Brooklyn Heights (which interestingly was one block from H. P. Lovecraft’s old home on Clinton Street). In 1976 the Warlock’s owner, the infamous Herman Slater, opened his second store, the Magickal Child, in the city.

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View of the corner of Myrtle and Nostrand avenues from the old Nostrand Avenue elevated BMT station in 1969, the year it closed. Photograph by Patrick Cullinan.


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“New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen.” -artist/activist Ai Weiwei, photographed in 1983 while he was living in Brooklyn and attending the Art Students Leaguge. Photographer unknown.




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Mr. Lee · @mrlee
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A young Jean-Michel Basquiat playing with sisters Lisane and Jeanine in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, circa 1970. Screen capture from a home video included in the Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure exhibition.




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Mr. Lee · @mrlee
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Such a waste: “New York City Police Commissioner William P. O'Brien smashes illegal pinball machines in a warehouse in Greenpoint.” Photograph from the NY Daily News, 1945.

 


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Coney Island bound, 1977.
Photograph by the great Harold Feinstein.




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Mr. Lee · @mrlee
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The legendary Ruby Oshinsky (better known as Ruby The Knish Man) outside Tilden High School in Canarsie, 1967. Photographer unknown.




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The abandoned RKO Bushwick Theatre on Broadway in 1974. The theater closed in 1969, was home to a church for a few years and then sat abandoned for ages. It’s now the site of the Brooklyn High School For Law And Technology. Photograph by Danny Lyon.


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Mr. Lee · @mrlee
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Dead end contemplation in Coney Island, circa 1978. Photograph by Irving I. Herzberg

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