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Brooklyn Then and Now - Not Available for Shipping Outside of the United States.
Marcia Reiss
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"Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Then and Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes."
Documentary Historical Photographs of Brooklyn Set Next to Contemporary Shots of the Same Scenes.
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So we couldn't resist offering a "Then and Now" collection of photographs on the great, legendary American borough -- really city -- of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn is a fixture in the American cultural landscape: Coney Island, Prospect Park, Borough Hall, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, New York City, Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay, East River, Luna Park, Civil War, World War, Academy of Music, Court Street, Ebbets Field, Administration Building, Montague Street, Steeplechase Park, Surf Avenue, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Dodgers, Park Slope, Singer Tower, Bush Terminal,
Then there is the literary culture, the immigrant history, the "Bronx Bombers," the Brooklyn accent.
Oh, Brooklyn! America is you, and you are America!
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From one online reviewer:
The greatest borough of the greatest city on Earth deserves its own special history, and Marcia Reiss has provided it. BROOKLYN THEN AND NOW is a reminder that Manhattan is not the only place that underwent enormous changes over the last century and a half. Capturing Brooklyn in recent photos and juxtaposing them with shots of the same area 50, 75, 100 or 125 earlier, dramatizes the growth that Brooklyn (the fourth largest city in America before the 1898 consolidation) experienced. It's too bad that you can't "take a look inside" this book on this website, but take my word for it, it's jammed with great photos!
From Thunder Bay Press, the publisher:
Brooklyn evokes familiar images. The Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Coney Island are icons as well known as Manhattan’s skyline. The borough has had many different faces over its fascinating history and this book celebrates these with archival and specially commissioned new photography. Just across the river from Manhattan, Brooklyn is an 81-square-mile peninsular that also borders New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean; a home to more than two million people. In the early 1800s Brooklyn became one of the world’s first commuter suburbs, connected to Manhattan by a string of ferry lines. It gained city status in 1834 and by the end of the 19th century was a major center of industry. Its population soared when thousands of immigrants from Ireland, Germany, Norway, Italy, Poland, and Russia poured into the city to work in the factories and refineries. Fueled also by shipbuilding and industrial growth, Brooklyn became the nation’s third most populous city by the Civil War. It built civic and cultural showpieces, a stately city hall and art museum and the 256-acre Prospect Park, which rivaled Manhattan’s Central Park. However, it failed to hold on to its city status and in 1898 joined the great consolidation of boroughs that formed New York City. The borough still maintains its own identity and, with a rich mixture of ethnicity, it is home to some lively communities. Young couples have created new homes in century-old row houses and artists have transformed old industrial buildings into spacious studios. Brooklyn Then & Now illustrates the vibrant character of this forever changing borough. Complete with historic photographs, many taken over a century ago, and matching full-color contemporary scenes, the book provides a visual chronicle of one of America’s most intriguing places.
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