Published on Dec 17, 2015 "Mange nordmenn dro til Amerika for å skaffe seg et bedre liv. For noen endte drømmen på en søppelfylling i New York." (Many Norwegians went to America to acquire a better life. A few ended the dream in a...
Ørkenen Sur - Norwegian Documentary, 2015
[Links to the video below] Ørkenen Sur. A Norwegian documentary made in 2015 about the shanty town that existed int Red Hook from the early 1920s to the mid 1930s. Known by names including Ørkenen Sur (the bitter desert), and Tin City. It was home...
Birds eye view of Red Hook just prior to the construction of the Red Hook ball fields: 1935
Soon after this photo is taken, the area at the left of the composite photo with just a few scattered houses in an uneven field will become the Red Hook Ball Fields and recreational area. Part of this area had been home to a shanty town, which went...
Ørkenen Sur images
In the early 1920s, the international freight trade collapsed leaving as many as 1,000 Norwegian seamen unemployed and unable to get back home. With little to no income many of them made shelters on a large area of landfill and rubble just north of...
Norwegian images
These images are part of the essay The History of Norwegians in Red Hook
Norwegian Ship RESTORATION
United States Postage Stamp: Norse American Centennial 1925 Issue 2 cents, sloop Restauration constructed in Norway in 1801. Created: 31 December 1900. This image is part of a much longer article on the Norwegians in Red Hook
Red Hook Junk Dealer in the Toils, 1885
Frank Schmidt, known to the police as "Dutch Frank," a junk dealer operating in and around Red Hook Point faced trial for dealing in stolen goods, October 1855. Junk dealers made their living buying spare sails, ropes and old iron from...
Alf Dyrland, Captain of the MARY A. WHALEN, 1962-1978
Alf Dyrland was Captain of the MARY A. WHALEN from her rechristening in 1962 until 1978 when he retired. He was her first captain; she was his last boat. Alf loved the MARY deeply. As he lay dying in 1996, what he said out loud...
Brooklyn: President Street - Van Brunt Street
President Street, at the S.W. corner of Van Brunt Street, showing the former Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church. June 6, 1931. P. L. Sperr.
Street address: President Street & Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY
Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1922. In 1929, this became the Norwegian's Sailor Church.
Clinton Street, at the N.W. corner of First Place, showing the Westminster Presbyterian Church organised on January 31, 1856. It was opened for services in a frame structure on this site in 1856. In 1867 this building was erected. In 1929 it had...
Street address: Clinton Street & 1st Place, Brooklyn, NY