THE BROOKLYN COLLECTION Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY Grand Army Plaza New York (Brooklyn P.O.), NY 11238 tel: 718/230-2762 fax: 718/857-2245 eMail: ????? http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/brooklyncollection/ The "morgue" - the newspaper clipping files of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle - is housed in the library in 152 filing cabinets, and provides the single most important information source on Brooklyn’s history in the twentieth century. A complete run of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1955) on microfilm is available to the public in the Periodicals Room. The photograph collection comprises over 35,000 photographs of the borough from the late nineteenth century to the present, and the unique Archive and Biography files from the 1970s to the present. Books, maps, and other items cover every subject imaginable. The BROOKLYN COLLECTION hours of operation are: Tues: 2:00 pm to 7:30 pm Wed 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm Thu: 2:00 pm to 7:30 pm Fri: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Sat: 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm Sun: closed Mon: closed RETURN to NEWSPAPER MAIN RETURN to BSU MAIN RETURN to BROOKLYN MAIN