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Government Relations & Community Involvement Department records

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Identifier: RG-15
Abstract Government Relations & Community Involvement Department Records document the activities of the department from 1985-2012. The Department was responsible for advocating for greater public and private support; coordinating city and federal agency projects; networking with community organizations; coordinating special events; and assessing audience development. (Information from Department Description Box 5, Folder 1.) These responsibilities were meant to educate the community and...
Dates: 1972-2012; Majority of material found within 1985-2012
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

Graphic Design Department records

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Identifier: RG-13
Abstract

The Graphic Design Department records consist of samples, drafts, and a small number of finished products for graphic design jobs. While the Graphic Design department has records dating back to 1984, the majority of the records document the department from 2011-2019. This collection includes: label copy, didactic panels, teaching resources, signs, promotional materials for exhibitions and programming, membership materials, development brochures, maps of the Museum, etc.

Dates: 1976-2020
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

Bernhard Gutmann Papers

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Identifier: S-29
Scope and Contents This collection is arranged in one series - Correspondence. The collection is comprised of 51 letters written by the artist Bernhard Gutmann to his two daughters, Dorothea and Elizabeth, from December 1929 to March 1930 while on a trip to Egypt. His traveling party included his wife Bertha Goldman, Hetty Goldman, and Cyrus Ashton Rollins Sanborn. Hetty Goldman (1881-1972) was the first woman to direct an officially sanctioned archeological excavation. Cyrus Ashton Rollins Sanborn (1882-1970)...
Dates: 1929-1930
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

Wallace Goold Levinson Collection

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Identifier: S-12
Abstract

The Wallace Goold Levinson Collection is comprised of a typewritten and handwritten manuscript detailing the history of the Brooklyn Institute and related research materials. Wallace Goold Levinson compiled and wrote the history between 18994 and 1922, though the manuscript appears to have been written in 1919. Additionally, there is a small amount of research material and biographical material on Wallace Goold Levinson.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1894-1922; 1865-1937
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

Marketing Department records

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Identifier: MAR
Scope and Contents The Marketing Department records contain contracts, agreements, correspondence, and reports regarding rights, reproductions, and the Museum shop. Agreements include the Application and Request for Permission to Reproduce Works from the Brooklyn Museum. The collection includes revitalization plans for the shop and financial reports of marketing services. Correspondence is primarily between Rena Zurofsky, the Head of Marketing, and various companies, vendors, and organizations regarding shop...
Dates: 1980 - 2003
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

Membership Department records

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Identifier: MEM
Dates: 1891 - 1992
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

Natural Science Department records

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Identifier: RG-04-02
Abstract The Natural Science Department Records document the management, correspondence, and curation of the department within the Brooklyn Museum from 1897-1928. The department remained nominally as an educational club until 1964. The records chronicle the growth of the Natural Science Department through the supervision of several curators and museum directors, including Alfred G. Mayer, Edward L. Morris, and Franklin W. Hooper, as well as the administrative and departmental transitions between...
Dates: 1862-1964; Majority of material found within 1895-1905
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

Office of Planning & Architecture exhibition floorplans

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Identifier: PLA
Dates: 1975 - 1987
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

Office of the Director records

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Identifier: DIR
Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of documents pertaining to the Directors of the Brooklyn Museum, William Henry Fox (1913-1933), Philip Newell Youtz (1933-1938), Laurance Page Roberts (1938-1943), Isabel Spaulding Roberts (1943-1946), Charles Nagel, Jr. (1946-1955), Edgar Craig Schenck (1955-1960), Thomas S. Buechner (1960-1971), Duncan F. Cameron (1971-1974); Reports (1935-1971); Wills and Estates (1888- ).

Dates: 1913 - 2015
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

Operations Department records

 Collection
Identifier: OPE
Dates: 1892 - 1993
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives

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