Brooklyn Children's Museum
Dates
- Existence: 193u
Places
- United States (Associated Country)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) (Residence)
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
City of New York: Department of Parks (1), construction, 1952-01 - 1952-08
Correspondence regarding contracts; alterations, Section C; Capital Outlay budgets (1949-1950); art school needs. Reference material on building plans, 1934-1946, including: Director's Report, 1946 (with drafts); High School of Industrial Arts (1945); Children's Museum (1934); Summary of Projects (1935); Post-War Construction Program (1945).
Correspondence: A - Z, 1972 - 1973
Correspondence, including regarding Fehrenbacher models; complaints; Dickson portrait donation; Jay Street firehouse; Morrison bequest; Roebling Society; South Street Seaport; requests to exhibit; MUSE (Children's Museum); staff dismissals. Poems by Eugenio Villar.
Departments: Industrial Design Laboratory, 1964-07 - 1965-09
Correspondence and memos regarding Cooper Union Museum; future operations; Sears, Roebuck and Co. project; loan policies; Registrar's procedures; Jack Larsen Andes exhibition; Charles James loans; transfers to Children's Museum. Letter of appointment, Anne Estern.
Departments: monthly reports, 1943-06 - 1943-10
Report to Trustees, June-September; statistics including press clippings, attendance; departmental reports, June-September, including Children's Museum.
Departments: Oriental Art, 1961-08 - 1962-03
Essay on Jain Rest House. Correspondence and memos regarding activities; with C.F. Yamada regarding exhibitions, employment; loans to Children's Museum.
Departments: Registrar, 1963-08 - 1964-04
Principal respondent: LaSalle, Barbara. Statistics on use of collections, 1963. Correspondence and memos regarding loans; Stern collection; Mujica-Gallo gold exhibition; Children's Museum loans; Techniques in Painting exhibition; insurance; customs brokerage; Mayor's Office loans. List of Erickson loans.
Governing Committee: Special Committees, 1938 - 1939
Establishment of Summer Committee; list of members of Budget, Dance Center and Children's Museum committees; minutes, Dance Committee; reports and resolution on Children's Museum.
Museums: Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1943 - 1944
Principal respondent: Garrison, Jane (Mrs. William L.) Correspondence regarding staff; activities; attendance; search for new Curator-in-Chief; Garrison resignation. Minutes, Administrative Committee.
Museums: Children's Museum, 1936 - 1937
Principal respondent: Gallup, Anna B. Correspondence and memos regarding WPA projects; staff; retirement; accessions; museum operations; budget; funds; Children's Museum News; publications. Brooklyn Nature Club flyers. Library reports. Attendance reports.
Museums: Children's Museum, 1937 - 1938
Principal respondent: Gallup, Anna B. Correspondence regarding Museum operations; publications; with Robert Moses, Parks Commissioner, regarding repairs; funding; Gallup retirement. Report of mineral division. Attendance statistics. Accessions list. Includes materials from Jane Garrison, Curator-in-Chief.