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Collections: Libraries and Archives

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.

Lantern Slide Collection

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. The Museum's Libraries and Archives now holds 11,710 glass lantern slides, and selections can be seen here.

Brooklyn Museum Building

Photographic images of the development of the Brooklyn Museum's building. McKim, Mead & White created the original design plan. Images range from the first section of the building to its latest redesign.

Views of Beach Haven

The Libraries and Archives hold a full range of documentary photographs of people and places around the world. Included are these photographs, in addition to many others, documenting historic American architecture.

1872 American Painting Exhibition Catalogue

A rare exhibition catalogue documenting the first historical survey of American painting in the United States. The exhibition was held on Montague Street in Brooklyn, New York, in 1872.

Maudslay Photographs

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

Sintich Brothers Photographs

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

Selected images from books and archival collections

Sample the visual riches of the Libraries and Archives collections with images from a variety of books, historical records, and special collections.

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• Goodyear Archival Collection
• Lantern Slide Collection
• Photograph Collection
• Records of the Brooklyn Museum Art School
• Records of the Department of Costumes and Textiles
• 100 percent absolutely not guilty
• A day with royalty : being a truthful account of the doings of that greatest of monarchs, Kimanli, recorded for the benefit of posterity, by that wondrous writah, Tellali : B.C. 475, Temple of Karnak
• A day with the donkey-boys
• A description of the East, and some other countries.
• A journal (manuscript) / by J. Schenck ; March 19th, 1812.
• A Nile voyage of recovery.
• A relation of a iourney begun An. Dom. 1610 : foure bookes, containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adjoining.
• A thousand miles up the Nile
• A treatise on mushrooms
• A very famous artist in a Williamsburg studios tour
• A. Pearson's illustrated catalogue, 61 and 63 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn L.I.
• Account of my trips to Holmdel, N.J. & Flatlands, L.I.
• Aegyptus Hodierna, ex itinerario Celeberrimi Viri Pauli Lucae Franci desumpta, ac novissime repraesentata ã Iohanne Beptista Homann, S.C.M.
• African ceremonies
• America. pt. 2. German] Der ander Theyl, der newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae, von dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam ... gethan.
• An American view : masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum
• Ancient armor
• Ancient Egypt or Mizraïm
• Ancient Egypt; her monuments, hieroglyphics, history, and archaeology, and other subjects connected with hieroglyphical literature.
• Andy Warhol : a memorial mass : Wednesday, April 1, 1987, St. Patrick's Cathedral.
• Artist file
• Artist file
• Artists books
• Atlas nouveau : contenant toutes les parties du monde ou sont exactement remarquès les empires, monarchies, royaumes, estats, republiques & peuples qui sy trouuent á present
• Beach Haven: the great seashore opportunity. Views of Beach Haven.
• Bibliotheca Aegyptica manuscripta, 1826-1830
• Bierstadt collection, 1863-1957.
• Bouquets et frondaisons : 60 motifs en couleur
• Brooklyn Bridge : 100 years
• Brooklyn Furniture Co. : illustrated catalogue : warerooms, 559 to 571 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
• Canalizing the cataract
• Catalog of the works of art exhibited at the 24th reception on Mar. 11th 1872, being the first chronological exhibition of American art.
• Catalogue of a collection of Egyptian antiquities : the property of Henry Abbott
• Catalogue of a most interesting collection of Egyptian antiquities, principally found at Thebes and Abydos, during the years 1818, 19, 20 and 21.
• Catalogue of projects by graduates from the Behrens Master School in Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
• Catalogue of the modern masterpieces gathered by the late connoisseur William H. Stewart.
• Cenni biografici intorno al viaggiatore italiano, Giovanni Belzoni.
• Collection of photographs by Alfred P. Maudslay, 1883-1890.
• Collection of wood-block prints of traditional objects to be displayed at seasonal festivals.
• Constitution of the Apprentices' Library Association of the village of Brooklyn.
• Curator's choice : Hiroshige, one hundred famous views of Edo : [exhibition] September 23 to November 30, 1987, The Brooklyn Museum.
• Description de l'Égypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française
• Die Kunstismen. Les ismes de l?art.
• Egypt ; heliogravures after original views.
• Egypt, architecture, sculpture, painting in three thousand years
• Egyptian Museum. The objects in this museum, numbering upwards of 1,000, were almost all taken from the tombs and ruined cities of Egypt, in the presence and under the supervision of Dr. Abbtt [sic] ...
• Fashion and Costume Sketch Collection, 1912-1950.
• Fashion and Costume Sketch Collection.
• From dreams to ashes
• Games of the North American Indians
• Hana shishu / [chosha Kawarazaki Kodo]. Classical patterns for dying.
• Harvesters or monkey business?
• History of the Brooklyn and Long Island fair, February 22, 1864 / prepared and published by authority of the Executive Committee.
• History of the/my word : fragments of a testimonial to history, some lived and realized moments open to claims of memory.
• I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia, disegnati dalla spedizione scientifico-letteraria toscana in Egitto
• In the shadow of no towers
• Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land.
• Insectes : vingt planches en phototypie coloriées au patron, donnant quatre-vingt insectes et seize compositions décoratives.
• La mosaique de Hammam-Lif : nouvelle observations
• Labyrinth : a montage book
• Lady Duff Gordon's letters from Egypt.
• Leaves of grass
• Les laques du Coromandel; 50 planches publiées
• Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
• Maurice Nahman, Antiquaire. Visitor book and miscellaneous papers. 1909-2006 (inclusive).
• Miss Gowanus
• Mission scientifique française en Amérique du sud : travaux et fouilles de Tiahuanaco 1903.
• Modern art
• Mondrian, the diamond compositions
• Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia
• Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie
• Mummies of the insane
• New York dissected
• Niagara Falls, N.Y.
• Nineveh and its remains : with an account of a visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or devil-worshippers; and an inquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians
• Our Brooklyn
• Paintings by George Hitchcock : an exhibition held at The Brooklyn Museum, November 1914.
• Pandora's book
• Patriot alphabet
• Petrie tomb cards. Petrie note books.
• Photographs, c.1888.
• Poem
• Programme of Cook's international tickets to Egypt, including the Nile to the first and second cataracts, Luxor, Thebes, Assouan, Philae, etc., etc.
• Pyramidographia; or a description of the pyramids in Egypt.
• Revue archéologique.
• Romani collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum, cujus magnum antiquariae rei, statuarum imaginum, picturarumque partem ex legato Alphonsi Donini...a secretis, Munifica liberalitata relictum...
• Royal Persian paintings : the Qajar epoch, 1785-1925
• SimWar
• Sketches in Egypt
• Some of these daze
• The American in Egypt; with rambles through Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land, during the years 1839 and 1840
• The art of decorative design : with an appendix, giving the hours of the day at which flowers open
• The book of the fair : an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893, designed to set forth the display made by the congress of nations, of human achieve
• The corona palimpsest
• The discovery of Egypt
• The Ernest George Metcalfe collection of Oriental rugs ... / exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, December, 1929.
• The land of the Pharaohs. Egypt and Sinai: illustrated by pen and pencil.
• The life and times of A.B. Durand
• The life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels

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