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Box 1

 Container

Contains 19 Results:

Museum Worker, January 1936

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents The Museum Worker was published by the Brooklyn Museum Unit of the Commnist Party. There is at least 1 other issue that is referenced in the January 1936 issue, but the complete run is unclear. The newsletter advocates for the Brooklyn museum to purchase uniforms for the guards instead of having guards purchase their own. Additionally, the newsletter encourages employees to join anti-fascist and anti-war organizations, and to unionize all museum positions. The newsletter discusses labor...
Dates: January 1936

"Plenty of Money for Teas but None for Uniforms", circa January 1936

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

This press release was issued to advocate on behalf of the museum guards in order to prevent them from spending their own money on uniforms. The press release points out that the Museum has 100s of dollars to spend on teas and events, but not $500 to spend on uniforms.

Dates: circa January 1936

Bylaws and structure, 1971-1973

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9-10
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 folder of draft bylaws.

Dates: 1971-1973

Volunteer newsletter, Spring 1989

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This artifical collection contains information on Brooklyn Museum staff events, activities, and demonstrations outside of work, or loosely related to work. It continues to expand and grow. Of special interest is the 1936 newsletter and press release that were created by the Communist Party Unit of the Brooklyn Museum which advocated for the Museum to pay for guards uniforms, as well as for staff to join anti-war and anti-fascist organizations. The newsletter was called Museum...
Dates: Spring 1989

Statement by Brooklyn Museum Workers in Support of Palestine, November 11, 2023

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This artifical collection contains information on Brooklyn Museum staff events, activities, and demonstrations outside of work, or loosely related to work. It continues to expand and grow. Of special interest is the 1936 newsletter and press release that were created by the Communist Party Unit of the Brooklyn Museum which advocated for the Museum to pay for guards uniforms, as well as for staff to join anti-war and anti-fascist organizations. The newsletter was called Museum...
Dates: November 11, 2023

Brooklyn Museum Employees Association meeting minutes, January 2, 1929

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This artifical collection contains information on Brooklyn Museum staff events, activities, and demonstrations outside of work, or loosely related to work. It continues to expand and grow. Of special interest is the 1936 newsletter and press release that were created by the Communist Party Unit of the Brooklyn Museum which advocated for the Museum to pay for guards uniforms, as well as for staff to join anti-war and anti-fascist organizations. The newsletter was called Museum...
Dates: January 2, 1929

Brooklyn Museum Staff petition to the Institute, March 11, 1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

The Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music were all sister cultural institutions under the umbrella of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (BIAS). In the 1970s, the Children's Museum, the Botanic Garden, and the Academy of Music all decided to become their own independent cultural instituions away from BIAS. This folder contains a petition protesting the proposed re-organization of BIAS.

Dates: March 11, 1974

The Brooklyn Museum Staff Newsletter, March 1973

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

In order to promote communication and clarity between staff and administration, newsletters were published for all members of staff.

Dates: March 1973

Meeting minutes, 1971-1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1971 a group of Brooklyn Museum employees met to discuss creating an internal organization to help employees and to address concerns by the professional and clerical staff that was not within the DC 37 union. This is within the context of MoMA organizing PASTA (MoMA Union) also in 1971, and in repsonse to major budget cuts from local government funding. The Brooklyn Museum employees organized the Brooklyn Museum Professional and Clerical Staff Association and began holding regular...
Dates: 1971-1974

Correspondence, circa 1971 -1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12-14
Scope and Contents From the Series: In 1971 a group of Brooklyn Museum employees met to discuss creating an internal organization to help employees and to address concerns by the professional and clerical staff that was not within the DC 37 union. This is within the context of MoMA organizing PASTA (MoMA Union) also in 1971, and in repsonse to major budget cuts from local government funding. The Brooklyn Museum employees organized the Brooklyn Museum Professional and Clerical Staff Association and began holding regular...
Dates: circa 1971 -1974