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© 2022 Fordham University Press, New York, USA

© 2022 Fordham University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface to the 2020 Paperback Edition vii
  4. Foreword xiii
  5. Foreword xv
  6. How This Book Came to Be Written xix
  7. Preface xxiii
  8. Introduction 1
  9. Part I: The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way
  10. 1 Manhattan Square 13
  11. 2 The Master Plan and the Bickmore Wing 35
  12. 3 The Jesup Years (1881–1908) and the Seventy-Seventh Street Façade 43
  13. 4 Robert Peary, the Journey to the North Pole, and the Cape York Meteorites 56
  14. 5 The Osborn Years (1908–1933) 77
  15. 6 The Akeley African Hall 97
  16. 7 The Evolution of the Dinosaur Exhibits 110
  17. 8 The Years 1936 to 1999 125
  18. Part II: The Heavens in the Attic
  19. 9 From the Beginning of Time to October 2, 1935 133
  20. 10 Robert Moses and the Norman Bel Geddes Report 152
  21. 11 The Golden Age of Spaceflight and the Hayden Planetarium 159
  22. 12 A Visit to the Original Hayden Planetarium 170
  23. 13 The Rose Center for Earth and Space 188
  24. Epilogue 197
  25. Acknowledgments 203
  26. Notes 207
  27. Bibliography 245
  28. Index 257
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface to the 2020 Paperback Edition vii
  4. Foreword xiii
  5. Foreword xv
  6. How This Book Came to Be Written xix
  7. Preface xxiii
  8. Introduction 1
  9. Part I: The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way
  10. 1 Manhattan Square 13
  11. 2 The Master Plan and the Bickmore Wing 35
  12. 3 The Jesup Years (1881–1908) and the Seventy-Seventh Street Façade 43
  13. 4 Robert Peary, the Journey to the North Pole, and the Cape York Meteorites 56
  14. 5 The Osborn Years (1908–1933) 77
  15. 6 The Akeley African Hall 97
  16. 7 The Evolution of the Dinosaur Exhibits 110
  17. 8 The Years 1936 to 1999 125
  18. Part II: The Heavens in the Attic
  19. 9 From the Beginning of Time to October 2, 1935 133
  20. 10 Robert Moses and the Norman Bel Geddes Report 152
  21. 11 The Golden Age of Spaceflight and the Hayden Planetarium 159
  22. 12 A Visit to the Original Hayden Planetarium 170
  23. 13 The Rose Center for Earth and Space 188
  24. Epilogue 197
  25. Acknowledgments 203
  26. Notes 207
  27. Bibliography 245
  28. Index 257
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