Brooklyn Museum

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Monthly statistics, Central and Children's Museum; cumulative statistics, 1942-1946.

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Monthly statistics. Annual totals, 1940-1945.

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series is composed of publications produced by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, exhibition catalogs before 1897 or exhibitions not held at the Brooklyn Museum. Additionally, there is a small amount of ephemera about and produced by BIAS. Several of the publications are included in the general Brooklyn Libraries stacks as well. Constiutions and Bylaws of BIAS, BAL, and BI can all be found in their administrative files. Exhibition catalogs past 1897 can be found in...

Abstract The Community Gallery records document the administrative and exhibition activities of the gallery from its founding in 1968 until its closure in early 1986. In 1967 members of the artist group FICE demanded that the Brooklyn Museum exhibit from the local community and display artwork created by BIPOC artists. In repsonse, the Museum created the Community Gallery and hired Henri Ghent, the first Black man in a Director/administrative role at the Museum. Ghent, and later Richard Waller in the...

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Correspondence regarding personnel. List of projects. Accounts.

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Proposal for technical, artistic, and clerical assistance, extension of projects.