Franklin Hooper
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Franklin William Hooper, LL.D. was an American biologist, geologist, educator and institute director.
1916 portrait of Franklin W. Hooper by Joseph Henry Boston, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, set up after a suggestion by Hooper
Hooper was the first director of the Brooklyn Museum 1899-1914.
Rockingham Meeting House, Vermont, church of his forefathers
Brooklyn Children's Museum
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The Brooklyn Children's Museum is a children's museum in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Founded in 1899, it is the first children's museum in the United States and, accor
Franklin Hooper
…and de facto director of the museum, and chairman of the Committee on Lectures. More departments were opened during his time as director, including the Brooklyn Children's Museum (1899) and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (1911). He was a member of the New York City Board of Education and a trustee for the Brooklyn Public Library…
The western side of the museum