Download or read book The American Museum Journal written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way written by Colin Davey and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, and German rocket scientists. The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City’s most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, including the planned Gilder Center, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way contextualizes them within New York and American history and the history of science. Part II, “The Heavens in the Attic,” is the first detailed history of the Hayden Planetarium, from the museum’s earliest astronomy exhibits, to Clyde Fisher and the original planetarium, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and it features a photographic tour through the original Hayden Planetarium. Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum’s labyrinthine hallways. The museum grew in fits and starts according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Chronicling its evolution―from the selection of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to the present day―the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city’s history, including the notoriously corrupt and powerful “Boss” Tweed, “Father of New York City” Andrew Haswell Green, and twentieth-century powerbroker and master builder Robert Moses; museum presidents Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ellen Futter; and American presidents, polar and African explorers, dinosaur hunters, and German rocket scientists. Richly illustrated with period photos, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way is based on deep archival research and interviews.
Download or read book Transactions written by Royal Society of South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural Histories written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.
Download or read book The Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muskox Land written by Lyle Dick and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
Download or read book A Text book of Geology Outlines of historical geology written by Louis Valentine Pirsson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide South Australia written by Royal Society of South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Arch ology and Ethnology Harvard University written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
Download or read book Museums Journal written by Elijah Howarth and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909. Comp. by Charles Madeley": v. 9, p. 427-452.
Download or read book The J Paul Getty Museum Journal written by The J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 13 includes articles written by Helayna I. Thickpenny, Michael Pfrommer, Klaus Parlasca, Heidemaire Koch, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Colin Streeter, Gillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer-David, C. Gay Nieda, Adrian Sassoon, Selma Holo, Marcel Roethlisberger, Louise Lippincott, Mark Leonard, Burton B. Fredericksen, Nigel Glendinning, Eleanor Sayre, and William Innes Homer.
Download or read book The Museum at the End of the World written by Alexia Bloch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America.
Download or read book The American Museum Journal written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: