The Center for Brooklyn History makes its collections available to all researchers.
We welcome scholars, teachers and students, genealogists, artists, documentarians, and anyone who is curious about the history of Brooklyn.
Several collections are stored offsite and require a minimum of two weeks notice to use. To view the full list click here
While we work to merge our two institutions' collections, the links below will direct you to our respective holdings.
Books and periodicals about Brooklyn in the Brooklyn Public Library catalog.
Browse books
Browse Brooklyn Public Library's Photograph collections. Collections originally held by Brooklyn Historical Society, can be found here.
Browse photography
Our oral history collections include over 1,200 interviews. Brooklyn Public Library's Our Streets Our Stories can be found here.
Browse oral histories
Explore digitized historical maps spanning the seventeenth century to the present. Brooklyn Public Library's map collections can be found here.
Browse historical maps
CBH's art and artifact collections represent four centuries of Brooklyn’s visual and material culture. A selection are available to search online.
Browse artifacts
Explore our collection of local Brooklyn titles and high school newspapers.
Browse newspapers
Fascinating Brooklyn stories rooted in the collections at CBH.
Browse the blog