Complete original historic Eagle now available via BPL ‘s digital archives
Readers of the Brooklyn Eagle website and the print edition of Brooklyn Daily Eagle may now easily read the pages of the original Brooklyn Eagle, through Brooklyn Public Library (BPL).
Founded in 1841, the original Brooklyn Daily Eagle published continuously until 1955, changing its name during the 1950s to simply Brooklyn Eagle. When the original Eagle folded, the Brooklyn Daily Bulletin was started as a downtown newspaper published Mondays through Fridays. In 1996 the Bulletin began publishing the Eagle again, merging the two titles.
But valuable Eagle archives and the traditional newspaper ‘morgue’ had been donated to the Brooklyn Public Library. And through the intervening years between closing of the original Eagle, and the re-start of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1996, passionate memory of the Eagle had been generally dormant in the public awareness.
Until today, the only feasible way to read the original pages from 1902 until 1955 was via microfilm at Brooklyn Public Library (or the Library of Congress), or access to the original bound copies in numerous collections—including this newspaper, which possesses bound copies from 1860 to 1955.