Department of Education

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

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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.

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).

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.

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....

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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.

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

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

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...