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This collection consists of correspondence, wills, land indentures, travel journals
and diaries, photographs (cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes,
tintypes, photo postcards, loose prints), holiday cards, scrapbooks, school programs,
report cards, inventories of assets, hymnals and other books, genealogies, and artifacts
including a parasol and pairs of spectacles relating to individuals in the Woodward,
Blackburne, Cook, Ward, Littlejohn, Condit, Haynes, Hart, Ottaway, and Prosser families;
all descendants of John Blackburne (1775-1845) and Elizabeth Cook (1781-1812). John
Blackburne emigrated from England to the United States in 1821, settling in Brooklyn
Heights; his grandson John Blackburne Woodward (1835-1895) was a Civil War general
and prominent business, political, and civic leader. This collection is focused on
family matters, including European travels and daily life at the family members’ homes
in Brooklyn, including nos. 70 Sands Street and 86 Sands Street (within a parcel of
properties owned by the family), 259 Henry Street, and 54 Remsen Street, and is a
reflection of memorabilia preserved by women of the family, particularly Mary Woodward
and Ruth Hart Ottaway, from one generation to the next, along with materials and information
gathered in the course of genealogical research by various family members.
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