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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Wallace Goold Levinson Collection

 Collection
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

Records of the Community Gallery

 Collection
Identifier: RG-05
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...
Dates: 1967-1985