Archival Material

Date Original: 2013

Description: In Cultural Learning: Two Models, Chapter 10 of Boston Stories, authors Leslie Bedford and Leslie Swartz mine collections, programs, materials, exhibits, projects, advisors and staff to bring communities and audiences together.

Creator(s): Leslie Bedford, author; Leslie Swartz, author

Keywords: cultural education; China; Japan; HEAP; engagement

Date Original: 1985

Description: A guide for readers through Boston's Chinatown and a Chinese grocery store, published the same time as the "A Market in China" exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum. The intended audience is for adults leading children through the neighborhood, but was also for anyone interested in Chinese culture. Maps, activities, history lessons, and a list of locations are provided.

Creator(s):Frances Srulowitz, author; Leslie Swartz, author; Sing Hanson, illustrator; Boston Children's Museum, publisher

Keywords: Chinatown, Boston, food, geography, "A Market in China"

Date Original: n/a

Description: Chronology of Cultural Exhibits, Publications, Programs, and Projects at the Boston Children's Museum from 1928 to 2002.

Creator(s): Pat Steuert, author; Dottie Merrill, author

Keywords: cultural exhibits; cultural publications; cultural programs

Date Original: January 12, 1984

Description: Flyer announcing December 1984 and January 1985 multicultural events at the Boston Children's Museum. Events included Armenian, Chinese, Filipino, and Polish cooking demonstrations, Native American festival, films, crafts, and a Japanese New Year Celebration for the Year of the Cow.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: events, multicultural, Armenian, Chinese, Filipino, Polish, Japanese, Native American, Japanese New Year

Date Original: April 10, 1986

Description: Registration form and flyer for a workshop on China and Japan for secondary school educators. The workshop was held on April 10,1986 and was sponsored by the Harvard East Asian Program, organized by Leslie Bedford, Japan Specialist and Leslie Swartz, China Specialist. Merry White, Director of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education also participated, providing a lecture on a comparison of Chinese, Japanese, and American educational systems.

Creator(s):Leslie Bedford, organizer; Leslie Swartz, organizer; Merry White, lecturer; Harvard East Asian Program, sponsor

Keywords: Harvard East Asian Program, Leslie Bedford, Leslie Swartz, Merry White, China, Japan, education, programs

Date Original: 1983

Description: The market in Hangzhou, China, a sister city. The photographs were used as inspiration for the Boston Children's Museum's China Market exhibit.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Hangzhou, Chinese markets

Date Original: n/a

Description: Woman leading a workshop on Asian iconography as part of the Harvard East Asian Program (HEAP).

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: China, workshops, Harvard East Asian Program, HEAP

Date Original: 1987

Description: Series of six photographs at the Chinese New Year Celebration at the Boston Children's Museum. Activities included crafts and music.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Chinese New Year, China, events

Date Original: n/a

Description: Children creating crafts during Chinese New Year at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Chinese New Year, China, events

Date Original: n/a

Description: A child watching a lion dance during Chinese New Year at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Chinese New Year, China, events

Date Original: n/a

Description: Children learning about zodiac signs during Chinese New Year at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Chinese New Year, China, events

Date Original: n/a

Description: Children creating origami during Chinese New Year at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Chinese New Year, China, events, origami

Date Original: May 20, 1978

Description: Flyer for China Resources Day held on May 20, 1978 at the Boston Children's Museum. Intended for teachers, the day's programs included a teacher exchange on how to organize a course on China, perspectives on China, Huhsien Peasant paintings, and activities for the classroom.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum and Harvard East Asian Program

Keywords: training, programs, China, Harvard East Asian Program, Teacher workshops, Wayne Altree, Tunney Lee, Ezra Vogel, Huhsien Peasant paintings

Date Original: 1983

Description: Flyer to explain the history and purpose of the Community Outreach Program at the Boston Children's Museum. The program allows the museum to work with community agencies to provide afterschool programs to children, develop curriculum, and help train staff.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum;Fredrik D.Bodin, photographer

Keywords: Community agencies; afterschool programs; staff training; kits and activities; resource materials; Suzanne LeBlanc; Leslie Swartz

Date Original: 1981

Description: One of the dragon boats participating in the races for the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, events

Date Original: 1980

Description: Series of photographs from the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston, including music at an outdoor concert and racing boats.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, concerts, events

Date Original: 1994

Description: Series of photographs from the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston, including music, dancing demonstrations, racing boats, and the festival goers.

Creator(s): Bob Bullerwell, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, concerts, events, demonstrations

Date Original: 1981

Description: View of artwork related to the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, art, exhibits, events

Date Original: ca. 1981

Description: One of the boats racing at the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s):LeslieSwartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, events

Date Original: 1981

Description: Boats to be used in the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s):LeslieSwartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, events

Date Original: 1979

Description: Child observing a calligraphy demonstration at the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, calligraphy, demonstrations, events

Date Original: 1981

Description: Women in native dress demonstrating a cultural activity at the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, demonstration, multicultural, events

Date Original: 1981

Description: Men in native dress demonstrating a cultural activity at the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, demonstration, multicultural, events

Date Original: 1981

Description: Group of girls performing a dance demonstration at the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s):LeslieSwartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, demonstration, events

Date Original: 1981

Description: Group of girls performing a dance demonstration at the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s):Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, demonstration, events

Date Original: 1981

Description: People performing a martial arts demonstration at the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, demonstrations, martial arts, events

Date Original: 1981

Description: Four boats participating in the races at the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, events

Date Original: 1979

Description: Dragon heads attached to old Boston Public School long boats for the Dragon Boat Festival of Boston.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, events

Date Original: n/a

Description: The East Asian Studies exhibit, which focused on China and Japan. The studies included shelving and displays and were part of a traveling exhibit to Massachusetts libraries. The studies then were displayed at the Resource Center at the Boston Children's Museum. This East Asian study featured information, typical foods, activities and books about Japan and China.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: East Asian studies; China; Japan

Date Original: n/a

Description: The kitchen pantry as part of the East Asian study. The studies included shelving and displays and were part of a traveling exhibit to Massachusetts libraries. The studies then were displayed at the Resource Center at the Boston Children's Museum. This East Asian study featured information, typical foods, activities and books about Japan and China.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: East Asian studies, China, Japan

Date Original: n/a

Description: Photograph of kitchen pantries as part of the East Asian study. The studies included shelving and displays and were part of a traveling exhibit to Massachusetts libraries. The studies then were displayed at the Resource Center at the Boston Children's Museum. This East Asian study featured information, typical foods, activities and books about Japan and China.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: East Asian studies, China, Japan

Date Original: n/a

Description: Photograph of a kitchen pantry as part of the East Asian study. The studies included shelving and displays and were part of a traveling exhibit to Massachusetts libraries. The studies then were displayed at the Resource Center at the Boston Children's Museum. This East Asian study featured information, typical foods, activities and books about Japan and China.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: East Asian studies, China, Japan

Date Original: February 2005

Description: Dianne Ludman Frank describes the traveling exhibit Five Friends From Japan: Children in Japan Today, created by the Boston Children's Museum and Capital Children's Museum of Washington D.C. The traveling exhibit opened in 2004 and was to dispel stereotypes of Japanese culture by showcasing five Japanese schoolchildren from a variety of backgrounds.

Creator(s):Dianne Ludman Frank, author

Keywords: Japanese, traveling exhibits, Five Friends From Japan: Children in Japan Today

Date Original: June 12, 1980

Description: Linda Matchan describes the Dragon Boat Festival put on by the Boston Children's Museum on the Charles River. Matchan provides a list of events during the festival. Page 4 of the file includes an invitation to a party held on June 26, 1980 for the volunteers of the festival. The invitation was issued by Marcia Iwasaki, Nancy Sato, and Leslie Swartz, the coordinators of the 1980 event.

Creator(s):Linda Matchan, author; Renee Klein, illustrator; Marcia Iwasaki, author; NancySato, author; Leslie Swartz, author; The Boston Globe, publisher

Keywords: Dragon Boat Festival, boat races, Chu Yuan legend, Cambridge River Festival, Charles River, Leslie Swartz, Marcia Iwasaki, Nancy Sato

Date Original: 1983

Description: A class at the Hangzhou Children's Palace, a type of facility common in China that screens, trains, and promotes talented children in arts and traditional sports. They also provide afterschool recreational activities. For upwardly mobile families a coveted slot in a training program gives their kids a competitive edge.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Hangzhou, Children's Palace

Date Original: 1983

Description: A classroom in the Hangzhou Children's Palace, a type of facility common in China that screens, trains, and promotes talented children in arts and traditional sports. They also provide afterschool recreational activities. For upwardly mobile families a coveted slot in a training program gives their kids a competitive edge.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Hangzhou, Children's Palace

Date Original: 1983

Description: Two girls dancing at the Hangzhou Children's Palace, a type of facility common in China that screens, trains, and promotes talented children in arts and traditional sports. They also provide afterschool recreational activities. For upwardly mobile families a coveted slot in a training program gives their kids a competitive edge.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Hangzhou, Children's Palace

Date Original: 1983

Description: A girl demonstrating martial arts in the Hangzhou Children's Palace, a type of facility common in China that screens, trains, and promotes talented children in arts and traditional sports. They also provide afterschool recreational activities. For upwardly mobile families a coveted slot in a training program gives their kids a competitive edge.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Hangzhou, Children's Palace

Date Original: 1983

Description: A child practicing music at the Hangzhou Children's Palace, a type of facility common in China that screens, trains, and promotes talented children in arts and traditional sports. They also provide afterschool recreational activities. For upwardly mobile families a coveted slot in a training program gives their kids a competitive edge.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Hangzhou, Children's Palace

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Brochure with information concerning the Harvard East Asian Program at the Boston Children's Museum. It includes the background of the program, goals, services, resources and exhibits.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Harvard East Asian Program

Date Original: 1977

Description: Chronology from 1977 - 1978of the programs that took place at the Boston Children's Museum in relation to the East Asian Program, and a projected schedule of events for 1978.

Creator(s): Harvard East Asian Program

Keywords: Harvard East Asian Program; events; exhibits; China; Japan

Date Original: 1981

Description: A description of the Harvard East Asian Program at the Boston Children's Museum. The flyer includes information on the background, goals, services, special events, resources, and exhibits of the program.

Creator(s): Harvard East Asian Program

Keywords: Harvard East Asian Program; Japan; China

Date Original: ca. 1985

Description: Description of the Harvard East Asian Program at the Boston Children's Museum. The flyer includes information on the background, exhibits, rental kits for classroom teaching, resource center, festivals, workshops, explorations, and consultations of the program.

Creator(s): Harvard East Asian Program

Keywords: Harvard East Asian Program, Japan, China

Date Original: 1987

Description: Visitors at the Hiroshima exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum. The exhibit included drawings by Artists Iri and Toshi Maruki from the bombing of Hiroshima, and the Wishing Tree, a portion of the exhibit where visitors could hang their personal hopes for world peace, or other things they desired.

Creator(s): R. Sparkman, photographer

Keywords: Hiroshima exhibit, Wishing Tree, Iri and Toshi Maruki

Date Original: 1987

Description: A woman reading to two girls at the Hiroshima exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum. They are sitting next to the Wishing Tree, a portion of the exhibit where visitors could hang their personal hopes for world peace, or other things they desired.

Creator(s): R. Sparkman, photographer

Keywords: Hiroshima exhibit, Wishing Tree

Date Original: 1988

Description: Beijing opera performer Jamie Guan applies his stage makeup as museum visitors watch.

Creator(s): Leslie Swartz, photographer

Keywords: Jamie Guan, China

Date Original: July 1985

Description: Newsletter from July 1985 with two articles. The first article concerned the return visitof the Miss Kyoto doll to Japan for a sprucing up. The doll was given to Boston in 1927 by agroupthat fostered friendship between various cities in the United States and Japan. The second article featured sumo wrestlers from Japan who visited Boston to foster friendship between New England and Japan through sports.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Miss Kyoto; Miss Anne; Japan-US Friendship Dolls; Govenor Michael Dukakis; Kitty Dukakis; Consul General Taniguchi

Date Original: 1986

Description: Flyer for the Orientation: JAPAN seminar held at the Boston Children's Museum. Created for New England corporations and their employees, the three-day seminar includes an introduction to Japanese culture and society, basic business practices, and everyday living in Japan. The staff included Leslie Bedford, Patricia Givens, Chiyoko Ono, and Atsuko Toko.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum; Japan Society of Boston

Keywords: Leslie Bedford; Patricia Givens; Chiyoko Ono; Atsuko Toko; Orientation: JAPAN; education; workshop; Japan Society of Boston

Date Original: n/a

Description: Adults receiving training in Japanese culture at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: training, Japan, programs

Date Original: n/a

Description: Adults receiving training in Japanese culture at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: training, Japan, programs

Date Original: n/a

Description: Adults receiving training in Japanese culture at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: training, Japan, programs

Date Original: n/a

Description: Adults receiving training in Japanese culture at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: training, Japan, programs

Date Original: 1975

Description: Karen Anne Zien in the Boston Children's Museum's Japanese Home, an exhibit in Jamaica Plain. This exhibit was a fore-rummer to the Kyo-no-machiya that was built at Museum Wharf.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Karen Anne Zien, Japanese home, Kyo-no-machiya

Date Original: 1983

Description: Invitation to the introductory course, "Landing on Your Feet," on Japan at the Japanese House at the Boston Children's Museum. Held on April 11 and 18, 1983, the course was to provide business people, tourists, and other adults feel comfortable with the basic values and etiquette of contemporary Japan.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: "Landing on Your Feet," Kyo-no-Machiya, Japanese House, education, events

Date Original: January 8, 1980

Description: Memo from Sonnet Takahisa concerning access, rules, and regulations for the Japanese House, including times for school groups to visit and who else will be allowed before the grand opening in April 1980.

Creator(s): Sonnet Takahisa, author

Keywords: Kyo-no-Machiya; Japanese House; Sonnet Takahisa

Date Original: 1981

Description: Interior family living area in the Japanese House exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Steve Rosenthal, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: Interior family living area in the Japanese house exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Steve Rosenthal, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: A panel from the introductory exhibit at the Japanese house at the Boston Children's Museum. The panel included a baseball, baseball mitt, and kimono.

Creator(s): Richard Howard, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: July 13, 1979

Description: Japanese carpenters at lunch who were hired to construct the Japanese house at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): City of Boston Photo Service, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, exhibits, Kyo-no-Machiya

Date Original: 1981

Description: Cooking utensils at the Japanese house at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Richard Howard, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: Carp kites outside the Boston Children's Museum for the opening of the Japanese house.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: kites, Japan, Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya

Date Original: 1984

Description: The Buddhas included in the Japanese house at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya

Date Original: 1981

Description: The bedroom in the Japanese House at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Steve Rosenthal, photographer

Keywords: Kyo-no-Machiya, Japanese House, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: View of the street from the Japanese House exhibit in the Boston Children's Museum

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: View of the street from the Japanese House exhibit in the Boston Children's Museum

Creator(s): Steve Rosenthal, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: The introductory exhibit at the Japanese House for the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Richard Howard, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: The introduction exhibit panel at the Japanese House for the Boston Children's Museum. The panel includes text in both English and Japanese, in addition to artifacts and photographs.

Creator(s): Richard Howard, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: A living area at the Japanese House at the Boston Children's Museum, with two children watching television.

Creator(s): Steve Rosenthal, photographer

Keywords: Kyo-no-Machiya, Japanese House, exhibits

Date Original: n/a

Description: Museum visitors learning to use chopsticks at the Japanese House exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits, activities

Date Original: 1981

Description: Storage area for the Japanese House at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Richard Howard, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: Yori Oda, Harvard University language teacher and Boston Children's Museum trustee, giving a speech at the opening of the Japanese House at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Bob Kramer, photographer

Keywords: Yori Oda;Japanese House; Kyo-no-machiya; exhibits;

Date Original: 1981

Description: Yori Oda, Sing Hanson, and Susan Leff at an anniversary celebration for the Japanese House.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Kyo-no-Machiya, Japanese House, Yori Oda, Sing Hanson, Susan Leff

Date Original: 1981

Description: Ondekoza drummer performing at the opening of the Japanese House at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Richard Howard, photographer

Keywords: Ondekoza, Kyo-no-Machiya, Japanese house, Yori Oda, Sue Jackson, Alf Rudnick, Japanese Dignitaries

Date Original: 1981

Description: VIPs at the opening of the Japanese House. People include Karen Zien, Yori Oda, Sue Jackson, Alf Rudnick, and Japanese dignitaries.

Creator(s): Bob Kramer, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, Karen Zien, Yori Oda, Sue Jackson, Alf Rudnick, Japanese dignitaries

Date Original: 1981

Description: Storage area for the Japanese House at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Richard Howard, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1981

Description: The introductory exhibit at the Japanese House for the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Richard Howard, photographer

Keywords: Japanese house, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibits

Date Original: 1989

Description: Pamphlet for the interpreters who will be leading visitors through the Japanese house at the Boston Children's Museum. The pamphlet gives suggestions on how to lead visitors through the house, answers to frequently answered questions, and vocabulary.

Creator(s): Leslie Bedford, author

Keywords: Japanese house; exhibits;Kyo-no-Machiya

Date Original: 1985

Description: Children taking part in a Japanese New Year program. Gyotaku is a craft that involves involved inking a dead fish and then transferring the design to paper.

Creator(s): Jon Goell, photographer

Keywords: Japanese New Year, fish printing, gyotaku

Date Original: 1985

Description: Children participating in events for Japanese New Year at the Boston Children's Museum, including fish prints, Origami, paper folding, and rice pounding.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Japanese New Year, Boston Children's Museum, holidays, children

Date Original: 1975

Description: Flyer describing the Japanese resources available at the Boston Children's Museum. The resources include the Japanese house, museum classes, internships, cultural artifacts, and workshops. Karen Anne Weisel is listed as the contact for the museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Japan; Japanese house;Kyo-no-Machiya; Karen Anne Weisel; Harvard East Asian Studies; Explorations

Date Original: 1980

Description: ASIA magazine talks about the Kyo-no-Machiya exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum. It describes the history of the exhibit and the construction of the Kyoto house as it was rebuilt inside the museum. A Japanese translation is included.

Creator(s): J. Tevere MacFadyen, author; Sarah Putnam, photographer

Keywords: Japanese, Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibit design, exhibit construction, Japanese house, Kyoto, Master Carpenter Masashi Kawabe, Yasui Moku Komuten Company, Architect Masaru Kumagai, Kiyoshi Yasui, Karen Zien

Date Original: April 15, 1980

Description: Pamphlet for the opening of the Kyo-no-Machiya exhibit, a reconstructed artisan's house from Kyoto, Japan. The pamphlet includes a list of donors, a history of the exhibit written by Michael Spock, letter of gratitude from Boston mayor Kevin H. White, and schedule of events.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum; Michael Spock, contributor;Kevin H. White, contributor

Keywords: Kyo-no-Machiya; exhibits; Japanese; Japanese house; Boston/Kyoto Sister City Foundation; Karen Zienl; Kiyoshi Yasui; Alford P. Rudnick; Hachiro Yuasa; Bertram A. Druker; Japan Society; Jan Fontein; Seiji Ozawa; Urasenke Tea Ceremony; Mayor Kevin H. White; Mayor Motoki Funahashi

Date Original: July 13, 1979

Description: A carpenter working on the Kyo-no-Machiya exhibit.

Creator(s): City of Boston Photo Service, photographer

Keywords: Kyo-no-Machiya, exhibit construction, Japanese house

Date Original: February 2, 1990

Description: Leslie Bedford, Sing Hanson, and Dan Spock in Japan.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: Leslie Bedford, Sing Hanson, Dan Spock

Date Original: Ocotber 2008

Description: Full interview transcript from an interview with Leslie Swartz, conducted by Mike Spock. Please note that the interviewee has made edits to the transcript for publication.

Creator(s): Michael Spock, interviewer; Leslie Swartz, interviewee

Keywords: transcript, interview, Leslie Swartz, Chapter 10

Date Original: 1980

Description: Leslie Swartz and Leslie Bedford teaching at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Leslie Swartz, Leslie Bedford

Date Original: 1991

Description: Leslie Swartz and Linda Warner.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Leslie Swartz, Linda Warner

Date Original: March 21, 1985

Description: Flyer for the Looking at Us: The Chinese View workshop held on March 21, 1985. For secondary school teachers, the program focuses on the Chinese perspective of Americans.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum and Harvard East Asian Program

Keywords: Teacher workshop; Leslie Swartz; Harvard East Asian Program

Date Original: n.d.

Description: Instructions for the home kit rentals from the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: kit; instructions; rental; children

Date Original: 1995

Description: Teachers at a kit rental workshop led by the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: workshop, education, teacher's kit

Date Original: November 10, 1977

Description: Invitation to the community to meet those who worked on the Meeting Ground exhibit. Meeting Ground was a cultural experience exhibit, which focused on Irish, Italian, Puerto Rican, and West Indian communities.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Meeting Ground; Irish; Italian; Puerto Rican; West Indianl; community; exhibits

Date Original: 1984

Description: The Miss Kyoto doll, which was given to Boston in 1927 that fostered friendship between Boston and Kyoto, Japan.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: Miss Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Date Original: 1985

Description: The Miss Kyoto doll at a ceremony in Japan in 1985. The doll was returned to Japan for repairs and had been given to Boston in 1927 that fostered friendship between Boston and Kyoto, Japan.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: Miss Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Date Original: 1987

Description: Ken Brecher, a Kyoto representative, and the Miss Kyoto doll.

Creator(s): unknown

Keywords: Miss Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, Ken Brecher

Date Original: Ocotber 3, 1985

Description: The Boston Globe discusses Gov. Michael S. Dukakis trip to Japan and China, including a description of the Miss Kyoto doll exhibit in the Boston Children's Museum that fostered friendship between Boston and Kyoto, Japan.

Creator(s):LaurenceCollins, author

Keywords: Japan, Miss Kyoto, exhibits, Dukakis, international relations

Date Original: n/a

Description: Flyer for Multicultural Celebrations II, which offered books and resources for instructing children on other cultures. The Teachers Resources Binder included teacher's guides, audio tapes, bibliography, and further information for activities and education.

Creator(s): Modern Curriculum Press; Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Multicultural; education; teachers resources

Date Original: 1988

Description: Children's book recommendations on multicultural celebrations. The cultures include Cambodian, African American, Chinese, European, Columbian, Korean, African, Russian-Jewish, Native American, Vietnamese, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Indian, and Lebanese.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Cambodian; African American; Chinese; European; Columbian; Korean; African; Russian-Jewish; Native American; Vietnamese; Puerto Rican; Mexican; Indian; Lebanese; education; multicultural

Date Original: 1981

Description: Ondekoza (Japanese drumming) t-shirt logo for the 1981 opening of the Japanese House festival.

Creator(s): DavidMerrill, photographer

Keywords: Ondekoza, drummers, Kyo-no-Machiya, Japanese House

Date Original: 1988

Description: Instructions on how to write the words peace and harmony in Japanese script. This was an activity for the Hiroshima exhibit.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Hiroshima exhibit; activity; Japan

Date Original: to be entered

Description: Photgraph of a woman, context to be entered.

Creator(s): to be entered

Keywords: picture; woman

Date Original: January 2001

Description: A Curator magazine article describing the ways that the narrative form is suited to museum work by creating personal connections between visitors and exhibit.

Creator(s): Leslie Bedford, author

Keywords: Leslie Bedford, Curator magazine, article, storytelling

Date Original: 1983

Description: Procedures on a simplified Japanese tea ceremony for the chashitsu (tea room) at the Japanese House. Tea ceremony terms are also defined.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: chashitsu, tea room, Japanese House, Kyo-no-Machiya

Date Original: 1960

Description: Karen Williamson leading a tea ceremony in the 1960s at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Karen Williamson, tea ceremony, tea house, Japan

Date Original: 1970

Description: People in a tea house in the 1970s at the Boston Children's Museum.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Tea house, Japan

Date Original: 1990

Description: Outline of the Boston Children's Museum's teaching philosophy and goals for the museum in general, for multicultural programs, and for the Japan program.

Creator(s): Leslie Bedford, author

Keywords: museum teaching approach, cultural, multicultural, Japan program teaching goals
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Date Original: 1992

Description: Exhibit team at the opening of the Teen Tokyo exhibit. The front row includes Masa Sato, Laura Miyamura, Lisa Sankowski, Ryoko Tokunaga, Mayumi Tachibana, and Leslie Bedford. The back row includes Yoshi Miki, unknown, Dan Spock, and Brad Larson.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Teen Tokyo, exhibit, Masa Sato, Laura Miyamura, Lisa Sankowski, Ryoko Tokunaga, Mayumi Tachibana, Leslie Bedford, Yoshi Miki, Dan Spock, Brad Larson

Date Original: 1992

Description: Exhibit team at the opening of the Teen Tokyo exhibit. From left to right in the first photo the staff includes Leslie Bedford, Lisa Sankowski, Yoshi Miki, Dan Spock, Sing Hanson, Brad Larson, unknown, Masa Sato, Laura Miyamura, and Ryokio Tokunaga. For the second photograph the front row includes Masa Sato, Laura Miyamura, Lisa Sankowski, Ryoko Tokunaga, Mayumi Tachibana, and Leslie Bedford. The back row includes Yoshi Miki, unknown, Dan Spock, and Brad Larson.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Leslie Bedford, Lisa Sankowski, Yoshi Miki, Dan Spock, Sing Hanson, Brad Larson, Masa Sato, Laura Miyamura, Ryokio Tokunaga, Teen Tokyo, exhibit

Date Original: 1992

Description: Teenagers exploring a portion of the Teen Tokyo exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum. The exhibit was 3,000 square feet, interactive, and media-rich, designed to showcase what America and Japan have in common.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Teen Tokyo exhibit, exhibits, interactive, Japan

Date Original: n/a

Description: Power Point presentation describing evolution of the Japan exhibits at the Boston Children's Museum. It begins with the Miss Kyoto doll donated from Kyoto, Japan in 1927 and moves to the Tea House, the Japanese House, Teen Tokyo, and ending with the 2004 exhibit Five Friends from Japan.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Miss Kyoto, Tea House, Japanese House, Kyo-no-Machiya, Teen Tokyo

Date Original: November 8, 1982

Description: Notes from a meeting with Karen Zien concerning the Japanese house's background and history.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Kyo-no-Machiya; Japanese House; Karen Zien

Date Original: 1977

Description: Information on training courses offered by the Boston Children's Museum. Classes are offered about China, Japan, Japanese Culture, and Japanese Arts and Crafts to enhance skills in teaching about different cultures.

Creator(s): Boston Children's Museum

Keywords: Teaching about China, Teaching about Japan, Japanese, Culture, Japanese Arts and Crafts, Explorations, Harvard East Asian Program

Date Original: 1978

Description: Tri Arts was a collaborative project by the Agassiz Community School and the Boston Children's Museum. The project provided a multi-dimensional, racially and ethnically diverse arts experience. The report includes photographs of different projects, cultural demonstrations, and children participating in the activities.

Creator(s):Marcia Iwasaki, author; Leslie Bedford, author ; Karen Zien, author; Sonnet Takahisa, author

Keywords: Tri Arts, Agassiz Community School, multicultural, education