Brooklyn Museum
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1889
Functions
Places
- United States (Associated Country)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) (Residence)
Languages Used
- English
Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:
Publication - Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News Vol 1-8, 1905-1913
File — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates:
1905-1913
Records of the Community Gallery
Collection
Identifier: RG-05
Abstract
The Community Gallery records document the administrative and exhibition activities of the gallery from its founding in 1968 until its closure in early 1986. In 1967 members of the artist group FICE demanded that the Brooklyn Museum exhibit from the local community and display artwork created by BIPOC artists. In repsonse, the Museum created the Community Gallery and hired Henri Ghent, the first Black man in a Director/administrative role at the Museum. Ghent, and later Richard Waller in the...
Dates:
1967-1985
Restructuring of BIAS, 1977-1980
File — Box 47: [Barcode: 60000000001724], Folder: 63-66
Dates:
1977-1980
Scyllarus arctus Illustration, circa 1915
Item — Box 11
Sea Urchin Specimen, circa 1915
Item — Box 11
Shell Specimens, circa 1915
Item — Box 10
Sooty Albatross Group, circa 1915
Item — Box 12
Scope and Contents
Visible enscription "4-10-17. L. Buhle" etched into the plate's emulsion. Louis Buhle was the Brooklyn Botanical Garden's official photographer from 1915 until 1968. Viable that Buhle was affiliated in the creation of this glass plate; a claim supported by further evidence of his authhorship on institutional photographs throughout our collections.
Dates:
circa 1915
Spene Tail, Syuallixs Albercone, and Nests; Mounted Specimens, circa 1915
Item — Box 13
Dates:
circa 1915