Collection of reports, photographs, and other materials related to the Museums of the Peaceful Arts, 1912-1930.

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Collection of reports, photographs, and other materials related to the Museums of the Peaceful Arts, 1912-1930.

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Typescript documents, records, photographs, blueprints, plans, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous printed materials related to the establishment of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts. Originally envisioned as a complex of twenty museums to be located on the west side of Manhattan in Riverside Park, or, according to later plans, near the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx, the Museum of the Peaceful Arts was established at 24 West 40th St. in Manhattan ca. 1920; it was eventually relocated to 220 E. 42nd St. This collection of reports and scrapbooks documents the creation of the Museums of the Peaceful Arts and the institution's early years under its president, George F. Kunz. Much general information is included on standards of museum stewardship in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s, along with examples of contemporary printed materials issued by other museums. The final volume is a study of the Newark Museum (for comparison purposes), prepared with the assistance of the Newark Museum Association and curator Alice W. Kendall.

10 v. ; 29-41 cm.

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Museums of the Peaceful Arts.

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Newark museum

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Related to the work of the Newark Museum's educational loan collection was the establishment of several "branch museums" between 1929 and 1969. During this period, the staff created temporary displays for the benefit of residents who could not easily travel to the museum. Branches were installed in regional libraries, schools, and storefronts, utilizing objects lent from the collections. The program continued for over forty years, until the work of assembling portable exhibits was taken over by ...

Newark Museum Association

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Governing body of the Newark Museum. The Director of the Museum is the secretary of the Association, and the contents of the Museum are owned by the Association. From the description of Newark Museum Association scrapbooks, 1898-1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132896 ...

Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932

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American mineralogist and gem expert, Vice-President of Tiffany & Co. (1879- ), U.S. Geological Survey special agent (1883-1909), President of the New York Mineralogical Club. From the description of Papers, 1879-1932. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 18538661 From the description of Papers, 1879-1932 [microform]. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 41124182 George Frederick Kunz, A.M., Ph.D., Sc.D, (1856-1932), was...

Kendall, Alice

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