New York Transit Museum Curatorial List/ Notes for Outreach Services

These touch objects are to be associated with our outreach program to visit organizations such as senior centers/ day- habilitation centers in Brooklyn/ Manhattan, for those who cannot physically visit our museum. These objects will help aid people in our educational outreach program.

Items suggested by Polly

Door Handles Master Control and Break Handle Slice of running rail Tokens/ Metro Cards Images to accompany objects

1.Elevated Trains2.Streetcars3.Trolleys

Straps from elevated train cars (leather or canvas)

Rattan/ Pleather squares Badges- Transit Authority pre 1968 for Bus &

Train Electrical Glove Rope Hard Hats/ Conductor Hats Old newspapers Brochures Any information/ paper work on the creation of

the MTA from 1968 Information from the subway unification in

1940

Pictures/ any information to create a story about an important person

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Items suggested by Brett Work Vests Keys (to be treated as a loan and on a chain) Colorful Lens (treated as a loan) Books from archives on Miss Subways for

information Hard hats Conductor Hat (special material, treated as a

special request and loan) Railroad spike Photographs from interior of train cars Signs Miss subway information/ photos

Items donated to us as of 7/24/2015: Master Control Handle Railroad Spike Break Handle New York Subway Guide* Brooklyn Bus guide* NYCTS operator badge 48636 & 42878* TA badge: 46125 &48541*

*Indicates that these items are donated and are not considered a loan from curatorial.

Minutes from meeting with Brett 7/23/2015:

Brett will take pictures of each requested object or take them from the database that we already have/ take his own images to put in a folder to store on the S:Drive with a comment on the status of the objects that will take a bit longer to get.

Brett will document/ photocopy an image of all maps/ brochures that pertains to us.

There are many books that we should take advantage of for any references located by Regina’s desk or in curatorial and archives.

The author of Miss Subway’s book that we have here will shortly be providing us with the raw materials and references that she used to write the book. (This could be useful if we wanted to focus on a few of the women and their stories).

The keys, colorful lens, and conductor hat will be treated as a loan item due to liability and importance of the object for its safety. These will also be followed by a report every few weeks of the condition that these items are in.

Tuesdays are the best days to schedule appointments with Carry, or the department of curatorial that deal with photographs.

Carry has a drawer of extra maps and brochures to choose from. This includes subway maps, bus maps that date back to the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Newspapers will be flagged and are usually donated to us, so any that Brett can find he will give to us and save to put on the side.

Electrical gloves will have to be ordered since we have only one pair in curatorial. David can help us with the special order request, and may have to be ordered in an office supply list.

Any extra badges separate from the education department will be treated as a loan item so Brett can have a report with details on the condition of them.

Brett offered to cut a piece of extra seat material that is no longer in use if needed. (Although we have rattan material already)*

Leather straps may be made from belts or other material. We do not have any extra straps for hanging in canvas or leather.

All pictures given to us from curatorial must be in a protective clear sleeve.

If we need an extra door handle separate from the one we already have in the Ed. Department and there are not any extras.

Curatorial has spares of a master control, and brake handles if needed.

A lot of records from people in the past have been tossed due to privacy reasons, which is why a lot of information is hard to connect with photographs of people that we have.

Work vests could be interesting to do a compare and contrast.

Our tokens/ metro cards are already in the education center so they should be easily accessible for traveling and attaining.