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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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Exhibitions > Past Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Home Sewn: Three Centuries Of Stitching History
November 18, 2003 - April 18, 2004

"A woman who does not know how to sew is as deficient in her education as a man who cannot write," was the critical advice given in 1838 to the readers of The Young Lady's...

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Home Of The Free: A Student Photojournalism Project
December 02, 2003 - April 07, 2004

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Children At Risk: Protecting New York City's Youths 1653–2003
November 04, 2003 - April 04, 2004

Developed with support from The New York Times Company Foundation, and honoring its Neediest Cases Fund, Children at Risk documents the efforts made over the past...

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Ann Zane Shanks: Behind The Lens
September 09, 2003 - March 28, 2004

Over the course of her 40-year-career, the Brooklyn-born Shanks has brought her considerable artistic and entrepreneurial gifts to photojournalism, publishing, television and...

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Recovery: The World Trade Center Recovery Operation At Fresh Kills
November 25, 2003 - March 21, 2004

The exhibition consists of 65 photographs and over 50 objects recovered from the destroyed World Trade Center. Collectively, they help to tell the unheralded story of what...

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Birds Of Central Park: Audubon's Watercolors
November 11, 2003 - February 29, 2004

Bird watchers might well insist that Central Park is really for the birds, as it is one of the world's great migratory way stations with hundreds of species passing through on...

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The Course of Empire: Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Landscape Tradition
March 18, 2003 - November 30, 2003

Thomas Cole, long considered the founder of the Hudson River School and the father of 19th century American landscape as a whole, takes center stage in this exhibition with his...

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Urban Oasis: The Greening of Early New York
July 22, 2003 - November 23, 2003

"For the beauty and ornament of the said street as well as for the recreation and delight for the inhabitants of this city" the military parade ground then known as Bowling...

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Beals, Hervey, and Hewitt: Women Pioneers of Architecture and Design Photography
March 18, 2003 - July 13, 2003

The exhibition focuses on the contributions of Jesse Tarbox Beals (1870–1942), Antoinette Bryant Hervey (1857–1945) and Mattie Edwards Hewitt (c. 1870–1956) to the fields of...

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African-American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
April 01, 2003 - June 01, 2003

In collaboration with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, African-American Masters is one of five exhibitions featuring the museum's collections that are touring the...

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