Blog posts by Jake Gibson

Our Streets, Our Stories: Personal Histories of Brooklyn

Jake Gibson

 

[Elaine Clark, Robert Clark and Roseanne Clark outside Marcy Houses], 1952, Photographic print, OSOS_0610; Our Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History. Donated for capture by Roseanne Clark White at Boys and Girls High School. 
 How do you represent the history of a community? Through its people? Memories? Artifacts? In 2014, Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection – now the Center for Brooklyn History – wrestled with these questions as it sought to…