The American Museum Of Natural History And How It Got That Way
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bahamut Media [56522875], Reading, United Kingdom.
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An extensive history of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, featuring a cast of colorful characters.The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City's most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, including the planned Gilder Center, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way contextualizes them within New York and American history and the history of science.Part II, "The Heavens in the Attic," is the first detailed history of the Hayden Planetarium, from the museum's earliest astronomy exhibits, to Clyde Fisher and the original planetarium, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and it features a photographic tour through the original Hayden Planetarium.Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum's labyrinthine hallways. The museum grew in fits and starts according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Chronicling its evolution?from the selection of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to the present day?the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city's history, including the notoriously corrupt and powerful "Boss" Tweed, "Father of New York City" Andrew Haswell Green, and twentieth-century powerbroker and master builder Robert Moses; museum presidents Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ellen Futter; and American presidents, polar and African explorers, dinosaur hunters, and German rocket scientists.Features a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson."This is, in many ways, a particularly American story, and anyone interested in history or museums will find this a very satisfying read. Author Colin Davey had a life-long love affair with the museum, growing up in New York and spending many, many hours happily lost in the museum collections, and that shines through in his writing as does his fine, in-depth research. Plenty of excellent graphics and photographs support this fascinating history." -Seattle Book Review.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Goldstone Books [53030935], Llandybie, United Kingdom.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, September Books [4933838], CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom.
358 pages- very clean, bright and tight. Signed a by author on half title. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bosco Books.
Saltash, United Kingdom: HATT PUBLICATIONS, 2003. Crisp and bright with no inscriptions. 358 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. 5" x 7". Softback.

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Colin Davey, Books, Travel, The American Museum Of Natural History And How It Got That Way, The American Museum of Natural History, including the Hayden Planetarium, is one of New York City's most beloved institutions, and one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling museum structure, consisting of many separate buildings spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of diverse architectural styles built up over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, The American Museum of Natural History and How it Got That Way reveals the many changes that influenced its building and design, contextualizes them within American history and the history of science, and teases out their origins in the dealings and personalities of nineteenth- and twentieth-century New York City. Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum's labyrinthine hallways. The physical building represents a massive, multi-generational effort that started and stopped, stalled and sped up, according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, shortages due to two world wars, and Cold War propaganda needs. Chronicling its evolution over the years-from the purchase of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to present day-the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city's history, including museum founder Albert Bickmore, the notoriously and epically corrupt and powerful William Boss Tweed, Andrew Haswell Green, a founder of Central Park, the American Museum of Natural History and the Father of New York City, as well as American presidents, New York power brokers, polar and African explorers, and German rocket scientists. The first book to cover the history of the museum's astronomy department and Hayden Planetarium, The American Museum of Natural History and How it Got That Way features a detailed tour through the old Hayden Planetarium (demolished in 1997 to make way for the Rose Center) through archival research and richly illustrated with period photos. A foreword by Neil DeGrasse Tyson situates the architecture of the physical buildings in the wider story of the museum.

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books~~9780823287055, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way, NOOK Book (eBook).

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, In Other Words Books, DEVON, Plymouth, [RE:5].
Paperback, 1st Edition.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, AwesomeBooksUK, OXON, PO BOX 318, [RE:4].
Paperback.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, AwesomeBooksUSA, DE, Wilmington, [RE:4].
Paperback.