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The Ford Foundation has amassed a sizable library of ideas and experience in more than 70 years of grant making. This research archive includes annual reports, books, studies and pamphlets published between 1949 and 1999. We encourage you to explore this rich history of our work and the valuable lessons we've learned.

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African Art Exhibition of 1923

Brooklyn Museum

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929

Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic)

Art museums -- Exhibitions -- History

Ethnological museums and collections -- History

In 1903, Stewart Culin (1858–1929) became the founding curator of the Department of Ethnology at the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, now the Brooklyn Museum. He was among the first curators to recognize museum installation as an art form. He was also among the first to display ethnological collections as art objects, not as ethnographic specimens. This approach is evidenced in his exhibition Primitive Negro Art, Chiefly from the Belgian Congo. The exhibition opened in April 1923, and displayed African objects he had acquired in Europe from dealers.

These digital images of the African Art Exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1923 are from the Culin Archival Collection, the Museum Library, and the Digital Lab. This is a small selection of textual and visual documents; many more are available for viewing at the Brooklyn Museum Archives.

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929

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The Opening of the Erie Canal

Erie Canal (N.Y.) ,

Construction projects

Popular culture

History

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center

Constructed in an era when roads were little more than ruts and dirt pathways, the Erie Canal opened up East-West trade in the newly developing United States, providing an all water connection between the interior U. S. and the Atlantic coast seaports. Built almost entirely by man and horsepower, construction began on the canal on July 4, 1817 with little public support and no government funding.

This online exhibit of the Erie Canal is a the result of a collaboration between the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library and The Eighteenth-Century Reading Room at the CUNY Graduate Center.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center

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