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Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society are made possible by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, the Saunders Trust for American History, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy

November 11, 2011 - September 09, 2012

Making American Taste features fifty-five works from the New-York Historical Society’s collection that cast new light on both the history of American art and the...

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Beauties of the Gilded Age: Peter Marié's Miniatures of Society Women

November 11, 2011 - September 09, 2012

Second Rotation: March 13, 2012 - July 8, 2012
Third Rotation: July 10, 2012–September 9, 2012

Between 1889 and 1903, New York socialite Peter Marié (1825–1903)...

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Beer Here: Brewing New York's History

May 25, 2012 - September 02, 2012

To consider the fascinating yet largely anonymous legacy of beer brewing in New York City, the New-York Historical Society presents Beer Here: Brewing New York’s History....

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Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York

Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York, highlights the histories of 100 notable examples of silver from the New-York Historical Society's collection...

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BE SURE! BE SAFE! GET VACCINATED! Smallpox, Vaccination and Civil Liberties in New York

May 15, 2012 - September 02, 2012

The eradication of smallpox, variola major, from the world is one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. For centuries, this highly contagious, disfiguring lethal...

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Revolutionary Kids

June 26, 2012 - August 26, 2012

The battles, principles, and aftermath of the American Revolution impacted all ages. Kids took part in boycotts, enlisted in the war, proclaimed patriotic themes, and lost...

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Howard Thain's Eye: Discovering New York in the 1920s

November 11, 2011 - August 19, 2012

Howard Thain moved to New York in 1919, and he described how during the next decade he spent every moment he could in the streets recording the city and its people “who to my...

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Audubon: National Treasures—Selected Gulls for The Birds of America (1827-38)

April 11, 2012 - July 01, 2012

Looking at these four watercolors you are enjoying an experience similar to that of John James Audubon’s (1785–1851) original subscribers to The Birds of America (1827...

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Titanic Voices

April 06, 2012 - June 25, 2012

Thousands of lives were changed forever when the RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912. The New-York Historical Society and the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American...

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The Thirteenth Amendment

February 01, 2012 - April 30, 2012

In honor of Black History Month and Abraham Lincoln's birthday, the New-York Historical Society is proud to display a rare handwritten copy of the Thirteenth Amendment—signed...