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The George Edelman Collection
George Edelman graduated with a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1942. After serving in World War II, he returned to New York and continued his education at New York University, from where he received his M.A. in 1952.
While at Brooklyn College, Mr. Edelman was a star player on the football team. This collection includes football programs, news clippings, and Edelman\u27s Brooklyn College jersey
The James V. Mangano Collection
The James V. Mangano Collection holds five boxes of records and ephemera of Mr. Mangano’s career as a Democratic District leader, and Administrative Supervisor at the Kings County State Supreme building. The collection contains correspondence, both professional and personal, memorandums and reports, along with press reports and memorabilia. It is organized into three series. The first series is Correspondence which is broken down into two sub-series, General and Monroe Dinner. The second series is the New York state Supreme Court Administration. The third series is called Special Topics. Brooklyn College Archives and Special Collections also holds two collections which are related to Mr. Mangano. These are the Brooklyn Democratic Party Papers and the Papers of John Rooney
The Brooklyn College Country Fair Collection
The Brooklyn College Country Fair was instituted in 1938 as a way to raise money for the Student Loan and Scholarship Fund as well as a way to promote relations between the various student-social organizations on campus. The elements of the Country Fair drew upon the history of the Brooklyn College campus, which had originally been a rural field area that hosted various sporting events as well as the Barnum and Bailey Circus once-a-year. Such a theme was implored into all aspects of the fair, especially the barn dances and the plaid attire of the students who participated. The Country Fair was an integral component of Brooklyn College life; it was a way for students, staff, and the community of Brooklyn to get together and celebrate the “birthday” of Brooklyn College and such an event was looked forward to by all who participated. Each year the Country Fair was held in the month of May and to ensure that the fair ran smoothly, the various Country Fair committees and its members worked diligently from the start of the spring semester which began in January or February. Close to 30 separate committees were involved in the scheduling and planning of events, contests and games, shows, concession stands, and the sale and exhibits of various items created by the student clubs involved. Beginning in the early 1960s, the elements of the Country Fair evolved into more of a multi-cultural theme due to the rise in ethnic diversity in and around the Brooklyn College campus. Although the theme had diverged slightly, the basic elements of the fair (including the King and Queen contest and the birthday cake-cutting ceremony with President Gideonse) were still the same. Within this collection, researchers can trace the evolution of the Country Fair from its commencement in 1938 until its “last hurrah” in 1994. The evidence of the diligent work put into the fair each year can be found among the artwork, scrapbooks, booklets, flyers, and correspondence of this collection; while the photographs provide a visual description of the joy and amusement shared by all who attended
Brooklyn College Dramatics Clubs
This collection consists of items that pertain to the Brooklyn College Dramatics Clubs for both the day and evening divisions of the college. There are posters, flyers, scripts, faculty correspondences, newspaper clippings, but, primarily, a wide assortment of programs. The items span almost a half century of dramatic clubs at Brooklyn College, which began when the college was founded, and documents the steady evolution of the theater program from the 1930s through the 1960s
The Papers of Peter James McGuinness
The Papers of Peter J. McGuinness profiles the political career of Peter McGuinness, his power in the local Brooklyn Democratic party and in city government, as well as his civic dedication to the place he called “The Garden Spot of the World,” his neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. McGuiness held was an elected official from 1919 to 1948.
The bulk of this collection is in the form of large scrapbooks containing news clippings collected by McGuiness. The eleventh box contains correspondence, speeches, photographs and personal memorabilia
The Papers of Procope Costas
The Papers of Procope S. Costas consists primarily of Dr. Costas’s writings, mainly the dictionary that he had prepared (although never fully finished) entitled English Words Derived from the Greek. In addition to the six boxes that contain bound and unbound drafts of the dictionary Dr. Costas was working on, this collection is comprised of correspondence, personal information, miscellaneous items such as invoices and brochures, several citations, photographs of family and friends, as well as oversized materials including two LP’s (with manuals that Dr. Costas wrote)
Records of the Brooklyn College Mathematics Department
This collection consists largely of handwritten grade books from Brooklyn College’s earliest years. Much of it also relates to the Math Department’s extracurricular activities such as contests. There are only two Subgroups in the collection: Notebooks: Records of Classes in Mathematics 1926 – 1976, and Department of Mathematics General Information
The Steven Rappaport Collection
Steven Rappaport lived right next to Brooklyn College on Bedford Avenue. His family moved to 2981 Bedford Avenue in 1944 when Steven was three years old and the family lived there until 1970. An avid photographer, Mr. Rappaport took photographs of the Brooklyn College campus from the windows of his family’s home.
This small collection contains material related to Brooklyn College and the development of the surrounding neighborhood. This includes negatives of campus buildings including Ingersoll, Roosevelt, and Boylan Halls. These photographs were taken by Mr. Rappaport from 1969 to 1970, mostly from his home at 2981 Bedford Ave. There are many images of the construction of the Ingersoll and Roosevelt extensions. There is also of folder containing photocopies of articles about the development of Midwood
The Papers of Dorothy Brandfon
This collection covers two periods in Dorothy Brandfon’s life: (1) her education at Brooklyn College and New York University, (2) her early years of teaching high school in the New York City schools.
Dorothy was editor-in-chief for the Brooklyn Literary Magazine. Included in this collection are two copies of the Magazine dated May, 1931 #2. Located here are several letters that from the administration of Brooklyn College expressing praise on the content. Boylan himself commented that the issue is “quite attractive and has considerable merit.” Brandfon’s diploma from Brooklyn College is included. An interesting section in this collection is the process Dorothy Brandfon had to follow to be given a teacher’s license to teach in New York City schools. Each step of the process is documented in this collection from teacher in training, to substitute teacher, to an English teacher in high school
Hurricane Sandy Records
This collection consists largely of Newspapers and publications directly following Hurricane Sandy. The publications are from local neighborhoods, newspapers that serve all of New York, and press from Unions, CUNY and from Brooklyn College itself. There is also information on Sandy Relief efforts. Along with all of this information, you will find a coin found in Rockaway and a can of water produced by Anheuser-Busch. After the hurricane hit, the company decided to develop drinking water in their “beer” cans to donate to needy neighborhoods and Red Cross Relief members. Over One million cans were produced
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