Brooklyn Children's Museum

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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.

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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.

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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.

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...