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Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Department of Education photographic album, 1961-1963

 Collection
Identifier: DR 053
Scope and content

Color photographs in three-ring binder documenting Hospital and Special Schools Program visits. Includes 35mm slides in sleeves.

Dates: 1961 - 1963
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Department of Education photographic album, 1961-1963

Department of Education photographic slides of special events

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 619
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken of various activities and events sponsored by the AMNH Department of Education. Includes trash can toys and games, Westside Day (September 27, 1973), and Steve Quinn's Animal Drawing (October 1988) among others.

Dates: circa 1970s-1980s
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Department of Education photographic slides of special events

Department of Education programs photographic slides, 1949-1993

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 77
Abstract

AMNH Department of Education programs, including West Side Day (1970), Margaret Mead Film Festival (September 1978), African arts & crafts class (1974), Natural Science Center (1974), Discovery Room (1977), Moveable Museum (1993) and other miscellaneous events and images. Two glass mounted slides show an art class sketching from a diorama in the Akeley Hall of African Mammals (1949).

Dates: 1949-1993
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Department of Education programs photographic slides, 1949-1993

American Museum of Natural History Department of Education, Science and Nature Program collection

 Collection
Identifier: DR 200
Content Description

The hard copy document files, student projects, photographs, scrapbook and av materials generated over the life of the Science and Nature education program up to 2017, the year founder Jane Kloecker retired.

Dates: 1998 - 2017
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / American Museum of Natural History Department of Education, Science and Nature Program collection

Education Service Materials

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Identifier: Mem 310
Scope and Contents The Department of Education at the American Museum of Natural History takes Museum research and scientific data and makes it accessible to teachers and students. In 1903, the Museum partnered with schools to create a system of circulating natural history collections, developed and designed by the Museum to provide teachers with teaching materials, specimens, and artifacts to support specially designed educational readings and lesson plans on a variety of subjects in the natural sciences....
Dates: Majority of material found within 1903-circa 1970; 1895-circa1970
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Education Service Materials

Gardner S. Stout papers, 1963-1971

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .S76
Dates: (bulk 1968-1971).
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Gardner S. Stout papers, 1963-1971

Harry Walters sandpainting demonstration photographic slides

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 87
Scope and Contents

Photographs of a sandpainting demonstration given by Harry Walters, then the curator of the Museum of Navajo Culture, Chinle, Arizona. Held in the AMNH Department of Education.

Dates: March 1973
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Harry Walters sandpainting demonstration photographic slides

Malcolm Arth collection, 1939-1965

 Collection
Identifier: DR 051
Scope and content

Flyers, programs for Museum public programs and lectures, education publications. Children's thank-you notes and drawings.

Dates: 1939 - 1965
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Malcolm Arth collection, 1939-1965

Malcolm Arth photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .A78
Scope and Contents

Includes field photographs. Travel photographs of Africa, India, and Japan. Photographs from American Museum of Natural History and the Dept. of Education as well.

Dates: circa 1960s-1970s
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Malcolm Arth photograph collection

Malcolm Arth photographic slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 636-640
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous travel photographs. Also includes images from Department of Education programs and events as well as temporary and permanent exhibits at AMNH. 636. Iran, Norway, Milan, USSR, Russia, Japan, Shanghai, China. 637. Mexico, China, Italy, Manhattanville, New York City. 638. Department of Education programs and AMNH masks. 639. AMNH Temporary and Permanent Exhibitions. 640. Miscellaneous images not owned by AMNH. Includes African textiles, artifacts, peoples, art, world travel, fauna...
Dates: circa 1960s-1970s
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Malcolm Arth photographic slide collection
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