The Brooklyn Museum Publications Collection
Abstract
The Brooklyn Museum Publications Collection is an artificial collections created by the archivists of the Brooklyn Museum to separate and identify Brooklyn Museum publications. Currently, the collection holds newsletters, bulletins, calendars of events, and other small Museum publications. It will expand in the future to contain exhibit catalogs, and other books published by the Museum. This collection is of interest for exhibition research, provenance research, and programming research.
Dates
- 1944-2016
Creator
- Brooklyn Museum (Organization)
- Brooklyn Museum Press (Organization)
Extent
3 Linear Feet (2 letter manuscript boxes, 1 legal manuscript box, 1 flat photograph box. )
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into series based on the name of the publication. The series are arranged chronologically, and are arranged chronologically within each series as well.
Processing Information
Between this collection and the Brooklyn Museum Ephemera Collection, there was a large discussion of what constituted ephemera versus a more formal publication. Specifically for exhibition catalogs, most of the early catalogs were folded paper and stapled. In order to prevent separation, as long as the catalog had some kind of checklist and some kind of essay, it was considered a publication.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Brooklyn Museum Publications Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Created by Charlotte Calmer, Libraries and Archives Assistant; and edited by Stephanie Crawford, Archivist.
- Date
- 2023-2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Brooklyn Museum Archives Repository