Planetariums -- New York (State) -- New York
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hayden Planetarium Interplanetary Reservations
Collection
Identifier: DR 194
Scope and Content note
This particular collection refers to a promotional strategy implemented by the Hayden Planetarium. In 1949, in order to increase publicity for their space exhibit “Conquest of Space”, the Hayden Planetarium set up an “interplanetary-tour reservations desk” that would take reservations for the first trips into space. The museum promised that the collected names would be turned over to the first organization actually planning interplanetary travel. In addition to the desk at the planetarium,...
Dates:
1949-2011; Majority of material found within 1949-1953
Hayden Planetarium papers, 1927-1988.
Collection
Identifier: DR 192
Abstract
Archives from the former Richard S. Perkin Library, Hayden Planetarium. Includes administrative records, staff papers, programs and correspondence. Collections of staff papers from Robert R. Coles, Joseph Miles Chamberlain, Frank H. Forrester, James S. Pickering, Thomas D. Nicholson, Franklyn M. Branley, Kenneth L. Franklin, Mark R. Chartrand and Allen Seltzer.
Dates:
1927 - 1988
