Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History.

Abstract The Records of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences span from 1823-1983. This collection largely documents the administrative and financial decisions that helped to lead the Brooklyn cultural instituions under its umbrella organization. These institutions include the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children's Museum, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Material types include meeting minutes, correspondence, financial ledgers, scrapbooks, publications, annual reports,...

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The Brooklyn Museum Ephemera collection contains ephemera created by and about the Brooklyn Museum from 1895-2023. Records from this collection mainly include paper items, such as: advertisements, informational brochures, exhibit announcements, museum maps, as well as objects from the Museum’s gift shop. This collection traces the development of the Museum as a cultural institution and active participant in the Brooklyn community.

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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.