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• Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, c1999), by Marc Linder and Lawrence Zacharias
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• A History of the City of Brooklyn (ca. 1870), by Henry Reed Stiles
  • volume I: HTML at panix.com
  • volume II: HTML at panix.com
  • volume III: HTML at panix.com
• Notes Geographical and Historical, Relating to the Town of Brooklyn, in Kings County on Long-Island (1824), by Gabriel Furman (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• History of Brooklyn Jewry (Brooklyn, NY: Scheba Pub. Co., c1937), by Samuel P. Abelow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian names of places in the borough of Brooklyn : with historical and ethnological notes (F.P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Atlantic avenue commission, comprising an account of the work accomplished, reports of hearings of interested parties, a history of transit on Atlantic avenue with illustrations and statistics ... (Eagle press], 1897), by N.Y.) Atlantic avenue commission Brooklyn (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walt Whitman's New York; from Manhattan to Montauk. (Macmillan, 1963), by Walt Whitman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The pictorial history of Brooklyn, issued by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on its seventy-fifth anniversary, October 26, 1916. (The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1916), by Martin H. Weyrauch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the city of Brooklyn. (Pub. by subscription, 1867), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York and Brooklyn Bridge (S.W. Green's Son, 1883), by S. W. Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ferry road on Long Island ([Printed by G. Quattlander], 1919), by Eugene L. Armbruster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical sketch of the Zabriskie homestead (removed 1877), Flatbush, L.I. : with biographical accounts of some of those who have resided in it ([s.n.], 1881), by P. L. Schenck (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of King's County, including Brooklyn, N.Y. (W. W. Munsell & Co., 1884), by Henry Reed Stiles, L. B. Proctor, and L. P. Brockett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of old New Utrecht and Gowanus (Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1912), by Charlotte Rebecca Woglom Bangs (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the dinner by the Hamilton Club to Hon. James S. T. Stranahan, Thursday evening, December 13, 1888. ([Eagle Press], 1889), by New York Hamilton Club (Brooklyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the city of Brooklyn and Kings county (Pub. by subscription, 1894), by Stephen M. Ostrander and Alexander Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eagle and Brooklyn: the record of the progress of the Brooklyn daily eagle (The Brooklyn daily eagle, 1893), by Arthur N. Jervis and Henry Ward Beecher Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chronicles of Erasmus hall. (General Organization, Erasmus Hall High School, 1906), by Erasmus Hall High School, Eugene W. Harter, and Willis Boughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Kings County including Brooklyn, N.Y. (Munsell, 1884), by Henry Reed Stiles, L. B. Proctor, and L. P. Brockett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bedford Corners, Brooklyn. (University of the State of New York, 1917), by University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History and New York (State). State Historian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dedication of monument and altar to Liberty on Battle Hill in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1920, 144th anniversary of The Battle of Long Island. Programme of ceremonies. (DeVinne Press, 1920), by Kings County Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of St. Augustine's Parish and it pastor (s.n., 1920), by William Harper Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A synoptical history of the towns of Kings County from 1525 to modern times. Containing the origin of the names of the streets, avenues and lanes. (Sherwood's, Incorporated, 1911), by E. A. Custer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eastern District of Brooklyn ([s.n.], 1912), by Eugene L. Armbruster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bedford Corners, Brooklyn. (The University of the State of New York, 1917), by University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History and New York (State). State Historian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Names of persons, enrolled as liable to military duty (under the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1863,) in the Third congressional district, New York. Eleventh ward. ([New York?, 1863), by United States. Provost-marshal-general's bureau. Board of enrollment (New York. 3d district) and Stephen B. Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical sketch of the city of Brooklyn, and the surrounding neighborhood : including the village of Williamsburgh, and the towns of Bushwick, Flatbush, Flatlands, New Utrecht, and Gravesend : to which is added an interesting account of the battle of Long Island (The Author, 1840), by J. T. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes, geographical and historical, relating to the town of Brooklyn, on Long-Island (Reprinted for the Faust Club, 1865), by Gabriel Furman, William Gowans, A. J. Spooner, and Faust Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origin of Breuckelen (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898), by Harrington Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes geographical and historical, relating to the town of Brooklyn, in Kings County on Long-Island. (Printed by A. Spooner, 1824), by Gabriel Furman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the city of Brooklyn and Kings county ... (Pub. by subscription, 1894), by Stephen M. Ostrander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brooklyn Heights : yesterday, today, tomorrow ([publisher not identified], 1937), by B. Meredith Langstaff and N.Y.) Brooklyn Heights Association (New York (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924. (Lewis historical Pub. Co. inc., 1925), by Henry Isham Hazelton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Keskachauge, or the first white settlement on Long Island (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924), by Frederick Van Wyck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bruijkleen Colonie (Borough of Brooklyn) 1638-1918 ([s.n.], 1918), by Eugene L. Armbruster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rural cemeteries of America : illustrated in a series of picturesque and monumental views (Published by R. Martin, 1846), by N. Cleaveland and James Smillie (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the city of Brooklyn : including the old town and village of Brooklyn, the town of Bushwick, and the village and city of Williamsburgh (Heritage Books, 1993), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report on the extent and character of the district supplying water to the city of Brooklyn (D. Van Nostrand, 1861), by N.Y.). Water Works Brooklyn (New York, Asahel Knowlton Eaton, James Pugh Kirkwood, and Theodore Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the city of Brooklyn : including the old town and village of Brooklyn, the town of Bushwick, and the village and city of Williamsburgh. (Pub. by subscription, 1867), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preliminary report of the work eliminating grade crossings ... (The Commission, 1909), by Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, Long Island Railroad Company, and Brooklyn Grade Crossing Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules and regulations for the government of the police force of the city of Brooklyn as determined by the commissioner of police and excise, Oct., 1893. (Brooklyn, 1893), by Brooklyn. Department of Police and Excise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic and antiquarian scenes in Brooklyn and its vicinity : with illustrations of some of its antiquities ([s.n.], 1868), by Thomas W. Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• East Brooklyn, 1637, 1860, 1922 : being a brief account of a venerable community of honorable traditions whose name the East Brooklyn Savings Bank is privileged to preserve ... a new home for the East Brooklyn Savings Bank. (Brooklyn Eagle Press, 1922), by East Brooklyn Savings Bank, Seymour B. Durst, and Clarence A. Hebb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The greater New York, reasons why (H.A. Rost, printer, 1894), by Edward C. Graves, Seymour B. Durst, and New York (N.Y.). Commission of Municipal Consolidation Inquiry (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the city of Brooklyn : including the old town and village of Brooklyn, the town of Bushwick, and the village and city of Williamsburgh (Pub. by subscription, 1867), by Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the town of Brooklyn (Printed by A. Spooner, 1824), by Gabriel Furman and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vrouw Knickerbocker; the romance of the building of Brooklyn (Dorrance and company, 1926), by Maude Stewart Welch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yesterdays on Brooklyn Heights (Dorland Press, 1927), by James H. Callender (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Brooklyn Heights, 1827-1927 : To commemorate the One Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the Brooklyn Savings Bank. ([Brooklyn], 1937), by Brooklyn Savings Bank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Brooklyn today (Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, 1923), by Joseph Caccavajo and New York Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (Brooklyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of old roads, residents and their occupations : the past contrasted with the present (s.n.], 1894), by Jeremiah Johnson and New York Society of Old Brooklynites (Brooklyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes Geographical and Historical, Relating to the Town of Brooklyn in Kings County on Long-Island, by Gabriel Furman (Gutenberg ebook)
• A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II., by Stephen M. Ostrander, ed. by Alexander Black (Gutenberg ebook)
• A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume I., by Stephen M. Ostrander, ed. by Alexander Black (Gutenberg ebook)
• Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre: A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the night of December 5th, 1876 (Gutenberg ebook)
• Down Town Brooklyn: A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn, by N.Y.). Committee of Ten Brooklyn (New York (Gutenberg ebook)

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