Download or read book Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 1870 with total page 516 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 Annual Report of the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
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 1981 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
Download or read book Putnam Anniversary Volume written by Franz Boas and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Trustees Constitution By laws and List of Members for the Year written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Museums in the Second World War written by Catherine Pearson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath. Instead it argues that new thinking in the 1930s was realised in a number of promising initiatives during the war only to fail during the fragmented post-war recovery. Based on new research including interviews with retired museum staff, letters, diaries, museum archives and government records, this study reveals a complex picture of both innovation and inertia. At the outbreak of war precious objects were stored away and staff numbers reduced, but although many museums were closed, others successfully campaigned to remain open. By providing innovative modern exhibitions and education initiatives they became popular and valued venues for the public. After the war, however, museums returned to their more traditional, collections-centred approach and failed to negotiate the public funding needed for reconstruction based on this narrower view of their role. Hence, in the longer term, the destruction and economic and social consequences of the conflict served to delay aspirations for reconstruction until the 1960s. Through this lens, the history of the museum in the mid-twentieth century appears as one shaped by the effects of war but equally determined by the input of curators, audiences and the state. The museum thus emerges not as an isolated institution concerned only with presenting the past but as a product of the changing conflicts and cultures within society.
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 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive history of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, featuring a cast of colorful characters. 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. Features a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. “This is, in many ways, a particularly American story, and anyone interested in history or museums will find this a very satisfying read. Author Colin Davey had a life-long love affair with the museum, growing up in New York and spending many, many hours happily lost in the museum collections, and that shines through in his writing as does his fine, in-depth research. Plenty of excellent graphics and photographs support this fascinating history.” —Seattle Book Review
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library written by Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.
Download or read book Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture Ethnology written by Robert Harry Lowie and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Culture & Ethnology" by Robert Harry Lowie Robert Harry Lowie was an Austrian-born American anthropologist. In this book, he uses his skill to create a generalized educational text that shows how culture affects every aspect of society. How it affects and is affected by psychology, race, and the environment are all explored, as well as some of the determining factors involved in truly creating an enduring culture.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library Reference Department Prepared by A Crestadoro Vol II Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879 With the Index of Names and Subjects written by Public Free Libraries (Manchester) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings and Report written by Royal Society of Tasmania and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols.for 1878,1879,1881,1884 contain "List of fellows and members."
Download or read book Notes Municipal Reference and Research Center written by Municipal Reference and Research Center (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal written by Stephen Denison Peet and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: