Brooklyn Children's Museum

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Principal respondent: Garrison, Jane (Mrs. William L.) Correspondence regarding funds; operations. Minutes of special meeting to discuss finances and relationship of Auxiliary. Annual Report (draft), 1938.

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Principal respondent: Garrison, Jane (Mrs. William L.) Correspondence regarding museum operations. Attendance figures. Accessions lists. World's Fair (1940) exhibit outline. Outline for 18 month report. Correspondence regarding use of Parks Department garage. Extracts from minutes regarding establishment; administrative committee, list of members. Correspondence regarding damages to World's Fair exhibits; 40th anniversary celebration. Report on American Library Association annual meeting.

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Principal respondent: Garrison, Jane (Mrs. William L.) Correspondence regarding museum operations; requisitions. Report on status of house cat as predator; Program, Children's Museum and the Community Conference.

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Principal respondent: Garrison, Jane (Mrs. William L.) Correspondence with William Lescaze regarding proposed building, including minutes of meetings, letters to Parks Commissioner Robert Moses; museum operations and staff. Report to Governing Committee, 'The Children's Museum and the War.' Accessions list, library.

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Principal respondent: Garrison, Jane (Mrs. William L.) Correspondence regarding operations; personnel; coverage in Institute Bulletin; funding. Recommendations for School-Museum Workshop. Attendance statistics.

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Financial statement.

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Correspondence, including regarding new Children's Museum building.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series is composed of publications produced by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, exhibition catalogs before 1897 or exhibitions not held at the Brooklyn Museum. Additionally, there is a small amount of ephemera about and produced by BIAS. Several of the publications are included in the general Brooklyn Libraries stacks as well. Constiutions and Bylaws of BIAS, BAL, and BI can all be found in their administrative files. Exhibition catalogs past 1897 can be found in...

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Annual report draft, including Children's Museum; policies; Museum and Children's Museum activities; exhibitions; curatorial department reports: Medieval, American Rooms, Superintendent, Prints and Drawings, Renaissance, Editor, Conservation, Library, Dance Center, Education.