Scope and Contents The archive is arranged in two boxes of 42 consecutively numbered folders, covering the years 1903-1908 (with one exception: a letter dated 1909 in folder 39). It comprises correspondence, administrative paperwork, and other documents regarding the following: (1) planning, scheduling, and ticketing for school and public lectures and for the development and delivery of circulating collections for classroom use; (2) correspondence and orders from the Department to...

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Booklets, lecture announcements and tickets to lectures given at the AMNH for members and children of members. Three sections labeled: Lectures to Children of Members; Lectures to Members; Lectures to Members Autumn, 1914. Includes additional box of loose booklets and tickets to member lectures.

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Printed invitations promoting special events and openings at the museum.

Abstract Bulk of collection is primarily the brochures of Discovery Tours which were held by AMNH from 2003 through 2006 and the related artworks such as photographs and slides. Also includes tour promotional materials and lists for direct-mail solicitations. Collection contains administrative papers, press release, correspondence, invoices and agreements between AMNH and vendors related to the tour operations. Also contains financial papers related to the tours such as budget forecasts on museum...

Scope and Contents This collection represents two years (1917-1919) during which the American Museum Relief Association, composed of women who worked at the American Museum of Natural History, was created, became active and was dissolved. The letters, statements and records reflect financial and fund raising practices, relationships with the Red Cross and activities of the various committees: the Knitting, Sewing, Paper, Soldiers' Aid, Suggestions and Surgical Dressing Committees and the Committee on...

Scope and Contents The papers in this collection include letters to and from its first curator, Dr. Charles Edward Amory Winslow, letters to and from other employees of the Department of Public Health, and related documents concerned mainly with creating permanent exhibits in the new department. The exhibits and the letters make clear that the focus of the new department was on the involvement of the citizens of New York City in their own health, a focus which was a ground breaking effort for its time....

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This collection represents six years (1906 to 1912) in the life of the Department of Public Education (at that time, the Department of Public Instruction). The collection includes letters to and from its Curator, George H. Sherwood, and various documents concerning the Department’s Nature Study Collection and visits to the Museum by schoolchildren.