Brooklyn Visual Heritage is an online

digital history Digital history is the use of digital media to further historical analysis, presentation, and research. It is a branch of the digital humanities and an extension of quantitative history, cliometrics, and computing. Digital history is commonly d ...

website resource produced by Project CHART, presenting historical 19th and 20th century photographs of

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

, held by several cultural institutions. Project CHART was a collaboration between the Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science (SILS),

Brooklyn Historical Society The Center for Brooklyn History (CBH, formerly known as the Brooklyn Historical Society) is a museum, library, and educational center founded in 1863 that preserves and encourages the study of Brooklyn's 400-year history. The center's Romanesque ...

, Brooklyn Public Library, and Brooklyn Museum. The three-year project was funded by the US

Institute of Museum and Library Services The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the ...

(IMLS) through a grant submitted by

Tula Giannini Prof. Tula Giannini is an American academic with subject expertise in musicology, digital culture, and digital heritage. Tula Giannini holds B.M. and M.M. degrees in Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, an M.L.S. degree in Libra ...

and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. It made use of Pratt Institute SILS masters students. The website was launched publicly in 2013.

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* 2013 establishments in New York City Internet properties established in 2013 American photography websites Photo archives in the United States History of Brooklyn Images of Brooklyn Digital history projects Digital humanities projects Pratt Institute {{website-stub

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