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Original Gene Conquers the East River 4 Sep 2012 | 11:38 pm
East River and Brooklyn Bridge, from NY World building (NYPL Digital Gallery) If you'd been anywhere near New York City's East River on June 15, 1890, you might have seen a remarkable sight: a young ...
Original Gene Conquers the East River 4 Sep 2012 | 11:38 pm
East River and Brooklyn Bridge, from NY World building (NYPL Digital Gallery) If you'd been anywhere near New York City's East River on June 15, 1890, you might have seen a remarkable sight: a young ...
Bartholomew's Fall 3 Sep 2012 | 12:23 am
Nos. 4-10 Grove St., NYC (Berenice Abbott photo, NYPL Digital Gallery) My great great uncle Bartholomew Carey was born in New York City in 1873 to Irish immigrant parents. Unlike my Hicks ancestors, ...
Bartholomew's Fall 3 Sep 2012 | 12:23 am
Nos. 4-10 Grove St., NYC (Berenice Abbott photo, NYPL Digital Gallery) My great great uncle Bartholomew Carey was born in New York City in 1873 to Irish immigrant parents. Unlike my Hicks ancestors, ...
The Bedford Black Sheep 26 Aug 2012 | 07:02 am
This post is essentially a précis of a few future posts about a Hicks cousin - yes, another one. His story involves a notorious Brooklyn gang, the New York vaudeville and burlesque scene in the 1910s,...
Nerve Corns and Cancer Warts 26 Aug 2012 | 04:52 am
Brooklyn Daily Eagle ad, 1881 What did my 3rd great uncle - a hot-tempered photographer from the Eastern District of Brooklyn in the 1880s - have in common with Ulysses S. Grant's mother? They both...
Nerve Corns and Cancer Warts 26 Aug 2012 | 04:52 am
Brooklyn Daily Eagle ad, 1881 What did my 3rd great uncle - a hot-tempered photographer from the Eastern District of Brooklyn in the 1880s - have in common with Ulysses S. Grant's mother? They both...
Parrots By Gaslight 19 May 2012 | 02:17 am
Flying foxes, unimpressed with the show (NYPL ) In May 1892, a man and woman "whose names are unknown to the police" (a curious phrase, that) opened a small dime museum in Brooklyn. They rented a sto...
Parrots By Gaslight 18 May 2012 | 07:20 pm
Flying foxes, unimpressed with the show (NYPL ) In May 1892, a man and woman "whose names are unknown to the police" (a curious phrase, that) opened a small dime museum in Brooklyn. They rented a sto...
An Incident on the Ferry, 1849 19 Apr 2012 | 02:30 am
Looking from Brooklyn to NYC, 1849 [NYPL] My great great grandfather Daniel Losee Hicks went through many occupations in the mid-19th century before he settled on shoemaking (which I suspect was his ...
