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Box 1

 Container

Contains 20 Results:

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, 1973, 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. This file...
Dates: 1973; 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 — Multiple Containers
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

Staff strike, March 1974

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes 19 slides of the strike.

Dates: March 1974

Collected materials on labor and MoMA's union, circa 1971- circa 1973

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16-17
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- circa 1973