Box 2

Scope and Contents Descriptive notes on loan collections of wood, birds, archaeology; letter to schools announcing loans program; letters re deliveries and pickups Press cuttings Lists and charts of the content of collections ordered by various schools and available for loan Undated list of number of pupils studying the circulating bird collections in one year (191,678) and all collections in that year (324,111); undated tally of schools in Greater New York (448) ...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous administrative materials including: Report of the Circulating Collections for 1904-1905; pamphlet The First Children’s Farm in New York City: 1902, 1903, 1904; compilations of numbers of pupils (indicating schools and teachers) attending children’s lectures at the Museum from late March to early June 1905; Report of Lectures for School Children March, April and May 1905 Folders 30-42 contain correspondence relating to the program of illustrated lectures for classes...

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Of interest:

Letters from Joseph J. Casey, Principal of P.S.83, complaining of pupils’ behavior (eating peanuts and whispering) at lectures at the Museum

Correspondence with T.A. Delaney, Superintendent, Metropolitan Street Railway, regarding arrangements for transporting school children to lectures at the Museum

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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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Of interest:

Correspondence between Sherwood and Gustave Straubenmüller (see folder 27) regarding the circulating collections and school lectures including a plan for a potential new insect collection; transcript of a lecture by Henry Snyder, Superintendent of Jersey City Public Schools, on the educational uses of museums, commended by Straubenmüller to Sherwood

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Of interest:

Correspondence between Sherwood and Alida S. Williams (see folder 28) regarding the selection of lectures for 1905

Correspondence with F.B. Webster Company for purchase of bird skins for mounting

Miscellaneous unsigned orders and correspondence

Scope and Contents Of interest: Letter from Albert Bickmore to Bumpus asking him to allow two students from Morris High School access to Bickmore’s lantern slides of Russia Correspondence between Sherwood and David B. Corson, Assistant City Superintendent of the Board of Education of Newark, New Jersey, making arrangements to rent the Museum’s circulating collections for use in Newark’s schools Detailed monthly reports by Evander Childs, Principal of P.S.10 in the Bronx,...