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The Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn Museum: Spanning Art and History

The Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn Museum: Spanning Art and History

Images of the Brooklyn Bridge, along with essays originally published in the catalogue The Great East River Bridge, 1883–1983.

Wilford Conrow's portrait of Goodyear

Goodyear Archival Collection

William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923) was the Brooklyn Museum's first curator of fine arts. A finding aid to the collection and an extensive selection of his photographs, either taken or collected by him, are now available online.

Portrait of Stewart Culin

Culin Archival Collection

Stewart Culin (1858–1929) was the Brooklyn Museum's first curator of ethnology. The Guide to the Culin Archival Collection, which includes a chronology of Culin's life and a detailed description of the collection, is now online.

African Art Exhibition of 1923

Digital copies of documents and photographs relating to a seminal exhibition of African art curated by Culin in 1923, are now online.


Sphinx

Lantern Slide Collection

Learn about the Museum's collection of lantern slides and view selected images at The Commons on Flickr.



Great turtle

Maudslay Photographs

Documentary photographs of archaeological sites in Mexico and Central America taken by Alfred P. Maudslay (1850–1931).


Aymara Indian

Sintich Brothers Photographs

Photographs of an archaeological site in Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, taken by the Sintich Brothers in 1903.



Exposed: The Victorian Nude

Brooklyn Museum Exhibition Index

Installation views of Brooklyn Museum exhibitions are accessible on the Brooklyn Museum Exhibition Index.