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1125. Spinden, H.J., Director of Education and Curator of Ethnology, 1929 - 1933

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Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding proposed open-air theater; D. Holdridge expedition to Amazon; Education Department classes; School Service Project, Carnegie Corporation; International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Science; staff; Washington Memorial exhibit; Kahn lectures, Princeton; Korean installation; space allocations; Culin library; Emergency Relief projects; changes in job description away from research (restricted). Correspondence regarding objects, including Peruvian textiles; loans to Art Students League; loans for Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts; Zalstein collection of African objects; Ponte collection, Bolivian textiles; D. Holdridge collection; Mexican frescoes. Statement of purpose, Museum Art Service. Department report, 5/1931. Expenditures, 1929-1931.

Dates

  • 1929 - 1933

Creator

Extent

From the Series: 15.416 Linear Feet (37 document boxes (DB))

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Brooklyn Museum Archives Repository

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