Showing posts with label Brooklyn Museum. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Brooklyn Museum Publications: Titles with full-text online

[First posted in AWOL 25 September 2012, updated 9 April 2015]

Brooklyn Museum books online

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...You’ve probably noticed that a lot of the content on the Brooklyn Museum website is licensed under a Creative Commons non-commercial attribution license. HathiTrust now offers that option to rights holders. It was a natural for us to jump in and offer pre-1990 Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Institute publications under CC terms, too. More recent books will come online gradually, as they go out of print and the stock dwindles (yes, we still want to sell books).  And books that we co-published are going to take some legwork to acquire permission from partners...
 A quick survey of the currently available titles relating to antiquity yields the following:

Predynastic and archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum / by Winifred Needler.


by Brooklyn Museum. Churcher, C. S., 1928- Needler, Winifred.
Published 1984

Toilet articles from ancient Egypt, from the Charles Edwin Wilbour Memorial Collection and the Collection of the New York Historical Society in the Brooklyn Museum.


by Brooklyn Museum. Wilbour, Charles Edwin Riefstahl, Elizabeth.
Published 1943

Africa in antiquity : the arts of ancient Nubia and the Sudan.


by Wenig, Steffen. Brooklyn Museum
Published 1978

Travels in Egypt (December 1880 to May 1891) : letters of Charles Edwin Wilbour / edited by Jean Capart.


by Wilbour, Charles E. 1833-1896. Capart, Jean. Brooklyn Museum.
Published 1936

Coptic Egypt;


by Brooklyn Museum. New York University.
Published 1944

The Collector's eye : the Ernest Erickson collections at the Brooklyn Museum / Linda Ferber ... [et al.].


by Ferber, Linda S. Brooklyn Museum.
Published 1987

Brief guide to the Department of Ancient Art.


by Brooklyn Museum. Dept. of Ancient Art.
Published 1970

The Pomerance collection of ancient art. [Catalog of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, June 14 to October 2, 1966.


by Brooklyn Museum. Pomerance, Leon.
Published 1966


Five years of collecting Egyptian art, 1951-1956 : catalogue of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, 11 December, 1956 to 17 March, 1957.


by Brooklyn Museum.
Published 1956

Late Egyptian and Coptic art : an introduction to the collections in the Brooklyn Museum.


by Brooklyn Museum. Cooney, John Ducey.
Published 1943

Pagan and Christian Egypt; Egyptian art from the first to the tenth century A.D., exhibited at the Brooklyn museum by the Department of ancient art, January 23-March 9, 1941,...
by Brooklyn Museum.
Published 1941

Patterned textiles in pharaonic Egypt, by Elizabeth Riefstahl.


by Riefstahl, Elizabeth. Brooklyn Museum.
Published 1944

The mark of ancient man : ancient Near Eastern stamp seals and cylinder seals : the Gorelick Collection / by Madeline Noveck.


by Noveck, Madeline Gorelick, Leonard. Brooklyn Museum.
Published 1975

Glass and glazes from ancient Egypt.


by Brooklyn Museum. Riefstahl, Elizabeth.
Published 1948

Les ostraca grecs de la collection Charles-Edwin Wilbour au Musée de Brooklyn.


by Brooklyn Museum. Wilbour, Charles E. 1833-1896. Préaux, Claire.
Published 1935

Amarna reliefs from Hermopolis in American collections [by] John D. Cooney. Mainz a. Rh., v. Zabern (1965)


by Cooney, John Ducey. Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences. Dept. of Ancient Art.
Published 1965

Catalogue of the Egyptological library and other books from the collection of the late Charles Edwin Wilbour,


by Brooklyn Museum. Wilbour, Charles E. 1833-1896. Cook, William Burt, 1875-
Published 1924

Exhibition of Persian art and its reaction on the modern world; museum and loan collections and special exhibits of schools and manufacturers illustrating Persian inspiration,...
by Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
Published 1931

 And see also: Brooklyn Museum Image Collections
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Wilbour Library Catalog Online

Wilbour Library, Brooklyn Museum of Art: Online Catalog has a new interface, a component of Arcade, the catalog for the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC).



The Wilbour Library catalogue is an excellent source of bibliographical information on Ancient Egypt.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Brooklyn Museum Image Collections

On January 8th 2009 the Brooklyn Museum issued more than 4000 new images from their Libraries and Archives Department to the web. These join the 5700+ works of art and the nearly 10,000 views of past exhibitions they have already published online.

Among the images they've published is a selection, almost all of Egypt, from their collection of 11,710 glass lantern slides:
In 1849, the Philadelphia daguerreotypists William and Frederick Langenheim introduced the lantern slide: a transparent image on glass that could be projected, in magnified form, onto a surface using a "magic lantern," or sciopticon. This new technology expanded the uses of photography, allowing photographic images to be viewed by a large audience. With lantern slides, Museum curators and educators could illustrate their lectures, letting audience members see detailed studies of objects and sites from around the world.

The Brooklyn Museum's lantern slide collection was started by the Museum's curator of fine arts, William Henry Goodyear, in the late nineteenth century. With the assistance of the photographers Joseph Hawkes and John McKecknie, Goodyear reproduced images of archaeological and architectural sites in Europe as well as images of the Paris Exposition, which Hawkes often hand-colored for more realistic effect. The lantern slide collection also developed through the efforts of the curator of ethnology, Stewart Culin, and his successor Herbert Spinden, who created and purchased images of objects and sites. Historical images of Museum galleries, New York City scenes, and buildings also became part of the collection. In 1921, a significant addition of 118 boxes of slides, originally the property of Franklin Hooper, Director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, was consigned to the Museum, the Children's Museum, and the Botanic Garden.

With the introduction of smaller transparencies in the 1950s, the use of lantern slides declined. The glass slides have remained quite valuable, however, because they depict scenes, people, and events from an earlier time, as well as sites and objects that simply no longer exist.

The Museum's Library now holds 11,710 glass lantern slides, which were selected from the extensive lantern slide collection in 1990. At that time, archives staff conducted an initial evaluation and sorting project identifying several categories to be excluded from the collection. Among the excluded categories were reproductions from books, non-Brooklyn Museum objects, and items from natural history and general history. Ten years later, the Goodyear lantern slides were cataloged and scanned as part of the Goodyear Archival Collection. In 2005, archives staff produced a detailed content and condition survey of the balance of the lantern slide collection.

Of the original collection of 11,710 glass lantern slides, 3,093 have already been catalogued and scanned as part of the Goodyear Archival Collection. The non-Goodyear slides have been surveyed and described in the current project. Some of the slides were commercially produced; others appear to have been made by Museum or Brooklyn Institute staff. Some were hand-colored. The images have been organized into several broad sections or series, including "Brooklyn Museum," "Native Americans," and "Views." The two largest series of images are "Views: Objects, Egypt" and "Views: Italy."
They have also released a selection of photographs by Alfred P. Maudslay, 1883-1890:
English archaeologist and photographer Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850–1931) first visited Central America in 1872 after being inspired by the images he saw in Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens. The "unexpected magnificence of the monuments" in the tropical forests captivated Maudslay, who then dedicated his life to documenting ruins found in Mexico and Central America. Maudslay played a crucial role in exploring and documenting ancient Mayan ruins found in several sites including Palenque, Copan, and Chichen Itza. Between 1881 and 1894, he conducted arduous explorations in remote areas, carrying his photographic equipment, casting plaster, and other supplies to make careful photographic records and plaster casts of architectural ruins. When he returned to England he published his findings in a multi-volume set entitled Biologia Centrali-Americana and made exhibition prints from his glass plate negatives that were shown at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It was in Chicago that Brooklyn Museum founding curators Stewart Culin and William Henry Goodyear saw the prints and arranged to purchase them, along with the Biologia for the Brooklyn Museum. The photographs and the multi-volume book remain an essential foundation for Maya studies, offering thorough views of the architectural ruins along with details of hieroglyphs carved into the monuments. In the face of wide-scale looting that has imperiled the historical record, researchers have turned to Maudslay's photographs, his plaster casts, and his books to better understand Mayan writing and architecture.
The Brooklyn Museum permits users to tag photographs they have online. I encourage readers to join in and assist in documenting these collections. And it is not just old photographs you can tag, but every object they have made available online
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