New-York Historical Society press clippings
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Abstract
The New-York Historical Society press clippings record group includes material compiled regularly by N-YHS into scrapbooks, subject files and binders from published sources from about 1870 to 2014, with some clippings as early as 1843. Subjects include exhibitions, lectures, publications, and other programs; acquisitions of new collections or objects; building construction, management controversies, and other institutional matters; and leadership changes, obituaries, and other matters connected to individuals. The record group provides insight from over a century into the extent of press coverage of N-YHS and press perceptions of the organization and its programs, and a broad overview of events in N-YHS's history as presented in the press.
Arrangement Note
The New-York Historical Society press clippings record group is organized in three series:
Series I. Scrapbooks, 1843-1991
Series II. Subject Files, 1968-2013
Series III. Media Coverage Binders, 2004-2009, 2013-2014
Scope and Contents Note
The New-York Historical Society press clippings record group includes material compiled regularly by N-YHS from published sources from about 1870 to about 2014. The record group also holds some clippings from as early as 1843. The material includes clippings and tearsheets from newspapers, general interest magazines, museum, antiques, and other specialist journals, and other print matter. These clippings are compiled in 28 boxed volumes of scrapbooks and, from about 1970, in subject-oriented files and binders. Although perhaps most of the clippings are from New York sources, there are a substantial number of clippings from other U.S. cities and even from the international press (accordingly, many of these are not in English). The record group also holds a small number of reprints and copies of essays written about N-YHS and its collections in books and journals.
The subjects of the articles in the record group are wide-ranging. Topics relate to N-YHS exhibitions, lectures, publications, and other programs and events; acquisitions of new collections or objects; implementation of major new initiatives (e.g. the Field Exploration Committee, circa 1917-1938); building construction on Central Park West (1900s and 1930s); management controversies (e.g., Mrs. Van Rensselaer's reform movement of circa 1917 and the financial difficulties of the 1980s-1990s); and recognitions, leadership changes, obituaries (e.g., the death of Director Alexander Wall in 1944), and other matters connected to individuals. Overall, the record group provides insight into the extent of press coverage of N-YHS, press perceptions of the organization and its programs, and a broad overview and narrative of events in N-YHS's history as presented in the press.
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Access Restrictions
Materials in this collection may be stored offsite. For more information on making arrangements to consult them, please visit www.nyhistory.org/library/visit.
Use Restrictions
Taking images of documents from the library collections for reference purposes by using hand-held cameras and in accordance with the library's photography guidelines is encouraged. As an alternative, patrons may request up to 20 images per day from staff.
Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org. Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext. 282.
Copyrights and other proprietary rights may subsist in individuals and entities other than the New-York Historical Society, in which case the patron is responsible for securing permission from those parties. For fuller information about rights and reproductions from N-YHS visit: https://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions
Preferred Citation Note
This record group should be cited as New-York Historical Society press clippings (NYHS-RG 7), New-York Historical Society.
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About this Guide
Processing Information
Series I and II of the record group were processed by archivists Margaret Kaczorowski and Larry Weimer in 2015-16. Additional material was transfered to the archives in 2019 and this was added to the finding aid as Series III by Larry Weimer in August 2021.
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Repository
Series I. Scrapbooks, 1843-1991
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Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The Scrapbook series includes 28 boxed volumes of clippings from newspapers, general interest magazines, museum, antiques, and other specialist journals, and other print matter concerning New-York Historical Society and New York's history. Although there are articles dating from as early as 1843, the regular content of the scrapbooks appears to begin principally in 1871. The scrapbooks advance with increasing consistency and quantity well into the twentieth century, pausing about 1972, and then picking up with some final volumes covering various years in the 1980s and 1990s, ending with 1991.
Articles related to N-YHS concern exhibitions, lectures, and other programs and events; acquisitions of new collections or objects; activities of the Field Exploration Committee and other initiatives; building construction, management controversies, and other organizational issues; and recognitions, leadership changes, obituaries, and other matters connected to individuals. Newspapers represented are principally from New York City and Brooklyn (e.g., Herald, Evening Post, Tribune, American, Sun, Times, World, New York Commercial, Evening Telegram, Citizen (Brooklyn), Standard Union (Brooklyn), Times (Brooklyn), and others). Other cities and states are also represented (e.g., Providence, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, various New Jersey papers, and others). Some clippings retained their transmittal information so the work of providers such as Henry Romeike, Inc., Argus Pressclipping Bureau, Selective Service Clipping Co., and Burrelle's is evident.
Arrangement Note
The scrapbooks are arranged in chronological order, although this is only approximate for the first six books as their date ranges do not proceed in a strictly sequential manner. The titles of the volumes used in the container list were taken, when present, from the scrapbooks; [bracketed] titles were supplied by the archivist.
The clippings in the scrapbooks, especially those from the nineteenth century and into the mid-twentieth century, are very fragile and must be handled with great care. Many clippings, especially in the earliest volumes, are not secured to pages of the scrapbook, but are simply inserted at various points. Clippings that come loose or break during use should be brought to the attention of the reference librarian.
Processing Information Note
The series was processed by project archivist Larry Weimer in September 2015.
[Clippings], 1858-1859
Scope and Contents Note
Includes clippings concerning notable New York City events and other matters of the time, articles about New York's history, and just a few articles about N-YHS.
Newspaper Cuttings Related to the NY Historical Society, 1844-1909
Scope and Contents Note
The core scrapbook includes clippings from 1871-1907, with loose clippings at the front of the album ranging from 1844 to 1909. The most interesting of these early clippings are a set from 1855 relating to the laying of the cornerstone of N-YHS's 2nd Ave building, and a November 1844 Daily Tribune article about a dinner held by N-YHS at the New-York Hotel, with seating diagram. Includes a photograph of the 2nd Ave building in 1904.
[N-YHS Clippings], 1899-1900, 1905, 1907-1911, 1916-1918
Scope and Contents Note
The core of the scrapbook includes the years 1907-11, with loose clippings at the back of the album or miscellaneous pages including other years.
[N-YHS Clippings], 1911-1917
N-YHS Clippings, 1905-1907, 1912-1921
N-YHS Clippings, 1843, 1921-1927
Scope and Contents Note
Includes clips about the Edwin Smith Medical Papyrus and other N-YHS Egyptian holdings, Field Exploration Committee, and advertisements placed by N-YHS in various papers soliciting documents, etc. from the public. Includes pages from the New York Herald of April 17, 1843, that include Albert Gallatin and Daniel Webster's remarks on the John Jay North Eastern boundary map (also reproduced in the paper).
N-YHS Clippings, 1928-1935
N-YHS Clippings, 1935-1939
Scope and Contents Note
Includes articles about the construction and opening of the expanded building.
N-YHS Clippings, 1939-1941
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the transcript of the Oct 19, 1940, radio interview with Alexander Wall, Jr. about N-YHS and the transcript of a radio interview with museum curator H. Maxson Holloway about an exhibition of campaign objects.
N-YHS Clippings, 1941-1943
N-YHS Clippings, 1943-1949
Scope and Contents Note
Many pages in the album are stuck together. Loose matter inserted in pages are stuck on underlying documents. Assistance from conservation staff is needed to use this volume.
N-YHS Clippings, 1949-1952
Scope and Contents Note
Includes New York Subways Advertising Co. ads for N-YHS (1952).
N-YHS Clippings, 1952-1954
Scope and Contents Note
Includes New York Subways Advertising Co. ads for N-YHS (1953-1954).
N-YHS Clippings, 1954-1956
N-YHS Clippings, 1956-1958
[N-YHS Clippings], 1958-1959
[N-YHS Clippings], 1959-1961
N-YHS Board of Trustees Clippings, 1942-1962
Scope and Contents Note
Includes obituaries and articles about honors and recognitions received by individual trustees and about their positions outside their N-YHS roles. Also includes articles about the death of Alexander Wall.
N-YHS Scrap Book, 1962-1966
[N-YHS Clippings], 1967-1972
Press Clippings, 1981-1983
[Press Clippings], 1988
Press Book, 1989
Press Book, 1989
Press Book, 1990
Press Book, 1990-1991
Press Clippings Book, 1990-1991
[Press Clippings Book], 1991
Series II. Subject Files, 1968-2013
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The Subject Files include clippings and tearsheets from newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and other publications concerning various N-YHS matters. The bulk of the files relate to exhibitions or other N-YHS programs and events. Many of the clippings in the exhibition files are articles about or reviews of the program, but many clippings are just brief notices from published event listings and the like.
In addition to the specific exhibition or other topical files, each year in the series from 1970 forward includes a file of general clippings. These include a broad mix of subjects, from general institutional matters to passing references to N-YHS in articles or published listings to items of only tangential interest. N-YHS's financial difficulties and other organizational issues of the 1980s and 1990s attracted much press coverage; these articles are primarily found in topical files, but some are in the general clippings as well.
Although the bulk, by far, of the series consists of original or photocopied clippings from sources outside of N-YHS, some of the files also include documents from N-YHS's Public Relations Department, such as press releases and summaries of references in the press (called press round-ups or coverage reports), especially for events such as exhibitions. Some documents include brief staff notes, internal memos, or press correspondence related to coverage, especially for exhibitions. A very few folders include exhibition checklists, labels, booklets, or other material directly connected to the event; documents of this kind are noted at the folder level in the container list.
Arrangement Note
The folders were kept in their original order, which was chronological, though there are some minor exceptions at points in the order. The series was minimally processed so the documents within the folders remain, for the most part, as found, with no particular order to them. Not all clippings in each folder were reviewed for their dates so the date ranges shown in the container list, though generally accurate, may not be precise in all instances.
Processing Information Note
The bulk of this series was processed perhaps circa 2000, with documents transferred from original folders to archival containers. In August 2015, archival intern Margaret Kaczorowski performed some additional processing steps and documented the holdings in the container list. Over the course of 2015-2016, project archivist Larry Weimer also added a small amount of material and completed the description for the finding aid.
General Clippings, 1968-1971
General Clippings, 1972-1973
General Clippings, 1974
General Clippings, 1975
200 Years of Toys in America, 1972
New York to 1765: River, Bowery, Mill, and Beaver, 1973-1974
Miniatures and Medals, 1973
Eyewitness News of the Civil War, 1973
Conservation Grant, 1973
John Rogers: Household Gods, 1973
Folk Art, 1973
Summershow: The American Landscape, 1973
Audubon: Birds of America, 1972-1973
New York Nostalgia, 1973
Mayors of New York, 1973
Old New York in Early Photographs, 1853-1901, 1973
Hudson River School, 1973
John Pintard and His Society, 1974
Deck the Halls, 1974
Glass Paperweights of the N-YHS, 1974-1975
Ain't I a Woman?: Woman's Rights, 1820-1920, 1975
The Birth of the Continental Army, 1975
Manhattan Now (2 folders), 1974-1975
Scope and Contents Note
Clippings pertaining to a photographic exhibition of more than 100 photos by artists such as Andre Kertesz and Andreas Feiningor.
Colonial Era Newspapers, 1975
The Sword of Rebellion is Drawn: New York in the American Revolution, 1975
The Shakers in New York State, 1975
America a la Carte: Bills of Fare of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1975
Newspapers of 1775, 1975
Summer in the Catskills, 1975
Aaron Burr Papers, 1975-1978
Scope and Contents Note
Clippings about N-YHS's project aimed at compiling a complete edition of the papers of Aaron Burr.
Concert Series, 1968-1975, 1968-1975
Portrait of Mrs. Charles Jeffrey Smith (1736-1816), 1975
Scope and Contents Note
Clippings and other materials on the acquisition of the Smith portrait by Ralph Earl (1751-1801).
John Trumbull, 1975
Scope and Contents Note
An exhibition of John Trumbull's (1756-1843) drawings from the Fordham University collection.
American Genre Painting/American Folk Art, 1975
Paper Currency, 1975
Scope and Contents Note
Clippings promoting an exhibition displaying paper currency used as legal tender and scrip prior to the issue of United States notes in 1863.
St. Nicholas Festival, 1975
General Clippings, 1976
N-YHS Acquisitions, 1975
The New York Cabinet Maker and His Use of Space, 1976
Words and Music: Sheet Music of Not So Long Ago, 1976
Wine Labels, 1976
History at Home: Decorative Arts, 1976
Campaigns, Conventions, and Candidates: New Yorkers and the Four-Year Itch, 1976
Fashions and Facades, 1976
Scope and Contents Note
Clippings promoting this exhibition of a series of 100 photographs that married fashions of a particular period with buildings constructed during the same era. Folder includes copies of the display labels for the exhibition.
Selling New York: Advertising from the Bella C. Landauer Collection, 1976
200 Years of American Illustration, 1976
The Dutch Republic in the Days of John Adams, 1976
General Clippings, 1977
Women: A Kaleidoscope from the Sophia Smith Collection, 1977
Remember the Ladies: Women in America, 1750-1815, 1977
Jenny Lind in New York, 1977
New York Then and Now: Photographs of New York in the Past, 1977
Moving in the City: 300 Years of Transportation in New York, 1977
Think Small: Dolls and Other Small Things, 1977
General Clippings, 1978
Scope and Contents Note
This folder includes a working schedule for exhibitions between 1977 and 1979.
Wish You Were Here: 19th Century Resorts in New York, 1978
Give Me That Old Time Religion, 1978
Street Kids, 1864-1977, 1978
Art of the Conservator, 1978
Over Here: The Jarvis Cromwell Collection of World War I Posters, 1978-1979
New York in the Forties, 1978
General Clippings, 1979
N-YHS Admission Policy, 1979
Collecting for the Future: 25 Years of Acquisitions, 1954-1979, 1979
Sheep's Heads, Eels Tartare and Little Birds on Toast, 1979
Yesterday's View of the Future: Revisiting the World's Fair of '39., 1979
Artists and Architects of the New York Subway, 1979
A Remnant in the Wilderness: New York Dutch Scripture Paintings, 1980
Knickerbocker Birthday: An Irreverent View of The New-York Historical Society, 1979
Murder! Murder Most Foul!, 1979
Tiffany Silver, 1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a checklist of pieces in the exhibition and a photographic contact sheet, presumably with images taken at the exhibition opening.
55 Wall Street: A Working Landmark, 1980
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns the exhibition N-YHS installed for the re-opening of Citibank's 55 Wall Street branch, a "working landmark." Folder includes a related booklet.
That Belmont Look, 1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the press kit with photographs for the exhibition.
General Clippings, 1980
A Panorama of Presidential Elections, 1980
The Phrenology of the Land: How to Read the New York Landscape, 1980
Scope and Contents Note
Also includes clippings related to N-YHS's showing of the documentary Henry Hudson's River: A Biography.
New York: Art on the Road, 1980
Drypoints of Mortimer Borne, 1980
Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America, 1980
A Child's World: Toys Used by Young New Yorkers, 1700-1920, 1980
The White Mountains: Places and Perceptions, 1980
General Clippings, 1981
Skyways: New York Aerial Views, 1981
Collaboration: Artists and Architects, 1981
Of the Land's Bounty: The Gardens, Meadows, and Forests of New York Province and State, 1981
Manhattan Observed: Fourteen Photographers Look at New York City, 1981
Shakespeare in New York, 1981
The Cutting Edge: Silhouettes by Auguste Edouart, 1981
Anacreon Revisited: Music from the Collection of the New-York Historical Society, 1981
200 Years of Free Masonry in New York, 1981
Scope and Contents Note
This folder includes several publications from various Free Masonry groups.
Twenty Years of Award Winners: The Best in Contemporary Illustration from the Society of Illustrators Annual Shows, 1981
Press Reports, 1981-1982
Scope and Contents Note
This folder contains lists of coverage of 1981-1982 exhibitions mentioned in the press.
General Clippings, 1982
George Washington Birthday Anniversary, 1982
Grand Central Terminal: City Within the City, 1982
MTA Photographs from the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, 1982
Sailing Ships in Dutch Prints, 1982
Cast with Style: 19th Century Cast-Iron Stoves, 1982
FDR: A Centenial Celebration, 1982
The Female Touch: The Ladies' Periodical as a Reflection of an Age, 1982
A Collector's Sampler: Library Accessions, 1980-1982, 1982
The Birth of New York: Nieuw Amsterdam, 1624-1664, 1982
Oom Pah Pah: The Great American Band, 1982
Scope and Contents Note
This folder contains materials, including the related booklet, on the exhibition of more than 150 pieces of band-related memorabilia. Folder includes a color slide of a lithograph by Theodore Benecke from 1855 entitled, Sleighing on Broadway.
Koke's American Landscape Catalogue, 1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes marketing materials for the publication of an illustrated reference book of N-YHS's collection of landscape paintings by American artists, compiled by Curator Richard J. Koke.
The Mayor's House: Gracie Mansion, 1982
A Sampler of American Advertising from the Bella Landauer Collection, 1982-1983
A Heritage to Remember: The Black Experience in New York, 1983
Greetings of the Year, 1982
The Sage of Sunnyside: A Washington Irving Bicentennial Celebration, 1783-1983, 1983
Scope and Contents Note
Include articles relating to this exhibition, which emphasized the relationship between Irving and N-YHS.
General Clippings (4 folders), 1983
Lecture Series Schedule, 1983-1984
A Celebration: American Landscape Painting, Genre Art and Drawing, 1983
Scope and Contents Note
This folder includes a photograph of the painting, Bargaining for a Horse (1835) by William Sidney Mount, that appeared in the exhibition. Includes a hand-drawn layout of the exhibition gallery indicating the placement of the various paintings and which were Richard Koke's selections.
N-YHS Building and Development, 1983
The Esmark Collection of Currier and Ives (2 folders), 1983
A Bridge Opens to Brooklyn, 1983
Artists' Views of Central Park, 1814-1914, 1983-1984
Leake and Watts Donation, 1983
Scope and Contents Note
Relates to the donation of the records of the Leake and Watts Childrens' Home in Yonkers.
The Library of John Pintard: Book Collecting in the New Republic, 1983
Lights, Camera, Action: New York's Silent Film Studios, 1983-1984
A Celebration of Opera, 1983
Meyerowitz and Bernstein, 1983
Scope and Contents Note
This folder consists of materials concerning the exhibition of 36 etchings and seven paintings by William Meyerowitz and sixteen paintings by Theresa Bernstein. These works showed the Upper West Side from the early to later 20th century.
Shanties to Skyscrapers: Robert L. Bracklow's Photographs of Early New York, 1983-1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a list of the prints selected for this exhibition.
General Clippings, 1984
N-YHS Building and Development, 1984
The Cultural Pleasures of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century New York: A Centennial Tribute to the Grolier Club, 1984
Firefighting on Parade, 1700 to 1865, 1983-1984
The World of Tiffany: The Egon Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Lamps (2 folders), 1983-1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a list of lamps as they appeared in the exhibition.
Collecting and Connoisseurship Symposium, 1983-1984
Scope and Contents Note
This day-long symposium was held on January 21, 1984, and was co-sponsored by the N-YHS and The Magazine Antiques. It presented several panels on the analysis of the art of collecting American silver, painting, porcelain, and furniture.
The Sons of St. Patrick: The Irish and Irish Organizations in New York City Before 1900, 1984
New York and the China Trade (2 folders), 1984
The Adirondacks: A Wilderness Preserved, 1984
Five New York Families, 1984
Scope and Contents Note
This exhibition looked at colonial New York through the acquisitions of the following families: the Beekmans, De Peysters, Livingstons, Schuylers, and Van Rensselaers.
Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection, 1984
Scope and Contents Note
This folder consists of materials about the exhibition of the Belknap Collection of oil and watercolor protraits dating from the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal periods.
Watercolors from the N-YHS Permanent Collection, 1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes one paragraph descriptions and brief artist biography of the many watercolors that were on display in the exhibition.
Visions of Liberty (2 folders), 1984-1985
Lost in the Shuffle: Playing Cards and Board Games from Bygone Days, 1984
Early Temperance Movements, 1984
The City Comes of Age, 1984
Scope and Contents Note
This folder contains materials about the exhibition celebrating the 180th birthday of N-YHS.
A Pageant of Heraldry in Britain and America, 1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a budget for the exhibition as well as An Outline of Heraldry in England and Scotland, a booklet by Robert Innes-Smith.
Her Voice Was Heard: Women and Politics in America, 1984
Struggle for a Continent: France and England in North America, 1983
The Baroness Hyde de Neuville: Sketches of America, 1807-1822, 1984-1985
General Clippings, 1985
Centuries of Childhood in New York: A Celebration on the Occasion of the 275th Anniversary of Trinity School, 1984-1985
Lurid Literature: Popular Reading of the 19th Century, 1985
Karol Kozlowski, 1885-1969, 1985
Scope and Contents Note
This exhibition displayed paintings by Polish-American folk artist Kozlowski.
Audubon's Birds of North America: The Original Watercolors (3 folders), 1985
Metropolis in Mourning: Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1885, 1985
Gouverneur Morris Chair, 1985
Scope and Contents Note
This folder contains articles about the discovery of this chair, given to N-YHS in 1817. The chair was once owned by statesman Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) and originally belonged to Marie Antoinette.
Statue of Liberty: America's Symbol of Freedom in Souvenirs and Ephemera, 1985-1986
Chicago and New York: More Than A Century of Architectural Interaction, 1985
Artist in Residence: The North Country Art of Frederic Remington, 1985
The Great Fire of 1835: Sesquicentennial Anniversary, 1985
General Clippings (2 folders), 1986
Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697-1901, 1986
Prized Prints: Rare American Prints Before 1860 in the Collection of the N-YHS, 1986
James Henry Cafferty, 1819-1869, 1986
P.T.Barnum: Prince of Humbug, Merchant of Delight (1 of 2), 1986
P.T.Barnum: Prince of Humbug, Merchant of Delight (2 of 2), 1986
Scope and Contents Note
This folder holds a small scrapbook related to the exhibition.
Liberty's Legacy: Photographs of New York's Ethnic Festivals, 1986
Treasures of Botanical Illustration, 1986
Portraits of Power: Paintings from the Collection of the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1986-1987
Scope and Contents Note
Folder includes the annual report of the New York City Partnership, Inc. and its affiliates.
Storied Shores: Lake George in Legend and History, 1986
A Portrait of Livingston Manor, 1686-1850, 1986
The Pleasure of Your Company: Parties and Balls in New York City, 1986-1987
"Pungent Salt" Article re: Mathew Brady, 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a reprint from History of Photography, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January-March 1986) of Helena Zinkham's article "Pungent Salt: Mathew Brady's 1866 Negotiations with the New-York Historical Society."
Made for New York: Antique Toys from the Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson Collection, 1986-1987
General Clippings (2 folders), 1987
The Wagstaff Collection of American Silver, 1987-1988
Government by Choice: Inventing the United States Constitution (2 folders), 1987
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey, 1987
The Hudson River and the Highlands: The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum, 1987
New York Bestiary: Pets and Pests of the Metropolis, 1987
Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene, 1836-1850, 1987
Scope and Contents Note
This exhibition's centerpiece was a diary kept by George Templeton Strong, and included paintings, sheet music and prints from 1836-1850.
N-YHS Summer Film Festival, 1987
Jasper F. Cropsey: Artist and Architect, 1987
Ex Libris Rufus King, 1987
Encyclopedia of New York, 1987-1988
General Clippings, 1988
N-YHS Financial Difficulties, 1988
Blizzard of '88, 1987-1988
Charmed Places: Hudson River Artists and their Houses, Studios, and Vistas, 1988
Francis William Edmonds: American Master in the Dutch Tradition, 1987-1988
Artistic Houses: Lavish Interiors of 19th-Century New York, 1988
Rise and Fall of New York: Building and Unbuilding Manhattan, 1988
Arnold Newman: Five Decades, 1988
Putting New York on the Map, 1988
The Belknap Collection of Silver and Portraits, 1988
Bellows, Bobbins, and Butter Churns: Keeping House in 19th-Century America, 1988
Thanksgiving Harvest: Food and Wine Festival, 1988
Celebrating the Holidays in Old New York, 1988-1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a check list for this holiday exhibition.
Flag Paintings of Childe Hassam, 1988
The Invisible Surface: Paper and the Printing Arts in Early America, 1988
Hard Cider and Hot Air, 1988
N-YHS History Makers Gala, 1988-1990
General Clippings (2 folders), 1989
Board of Trustees, 1989-1990
Society Reorganization, 1989
Revisiting the 1939 World's Fair, 1989
George Washington in New York, 1989
Jewish Museum Arrangement, 1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographs of Jewish Museum (Warburg Mansion and List Building) and proposed expansion.
Burr McIntosh: Polite Society, 1900-1910, 1989
Irving Browning: City of Contrasts, 1989
Cased Images: 150th Anniversary of Photography, 1989-1990
An American Sampler: Folk Art from The Shelburne Museum, 1989
General Clippings, 1990
Why History?, 1990
Scope and Contents Note
This series was presented over a 4-month period, and focused on the ways in which perceptions of history shape daily lives. The series consisted of concerts and films, as well as panel discussions with scholars.
Board of Trustees, 1990
The Lamps of Tiffany, 1988-1991
Attorney General's Announcement, 1990
Nicolino Calyo: 19th Century Views of New York, 1990
Below the Line: Living Poor in America, 1990
Lord Cornbury, Royal Governor of Colonial New York, 1990
Scope and Contents Note
Clippings related to competing claims over whether or not a portrait owned by N-YHS was of Lord Cornbury, Royal Governor of New York from 1702-1708.
Mexican Music Concert Series, 1990-1991
Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, 1990
The Thomas Jefferson Bryan Gallery: Changing Attributions, 1990
Charles Gilbert Hine: Impressions of a City, 1990
Baseball Story, 1990
Scope and Contents Note
Relates to a newspaper account of possibly the earliest baseball game played in 1845, discovered in material at N-YHS by a Harvard graduate student.
ART What Though EAT: Images of Food in American Art (2 folders), 1990-1991
Luman Reed Gallery, 1990-1991
General Clippings (2 folders), 1991
Jewish Museum Exhibitions at the N-YHS, 1991
Museum Store, 1991
Why History? Series: Race and Class in New York City, 1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes press attendance list.
The Taste of Andrew Carnegie, 1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a print of a photograph of Carnegie from the N-YHS collection (from negative 49533).
New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Design Awards, 1991
Justice Rendered: The Courts of New York Colony and State, 1691-1991, 1991
McKim, Mead, & White's New York, 1991
New York in Watercolor: The Landscapes of William Rickarby Miller, 1991
While They Fight: The Home Front in New York City, 1991
Imagining the New World: Columbian Iconography, 1991
A Day Without Art, 1991
General Clippings, 1992
Forever Wild: The Adirondack Experience, 1992
Ansel Adams: The Early Years, 1992
The Century Association: American Masters and Masterworks, 1992
Building City Hall: Competition, Construction, and Context, 1992
N-YHS Financial Difficulties, 1993
N-YHS Financial Difficulties / Fiscal Crisis, 1990s, inclusive
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History, 1993-1994
Press Coverage Report, 1993 March-1994 March
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photocopies of articles compiled from various news outlets by Resnicow Schroeder Associates, Inc. The articles focus on particular themes, including the publication of the Audubon watercolors and a related traveling exhibition, various other exhibitions, N-YHS's connection to the movie The Age of Innocence, and institutional matters, such as N-YHS's financial difficulties.
General Clippings (2 folders), 1994-1995
Treasury of the Past, 1995
Life on a Fiscal Precipice, 1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photocopy of former Museum Director Holly Hotchner's article about N-YHS in the American Association of Museums publication Institutional Trauma: Major Change in Museums and Its Effect on Staff, edited by Elaine Heumann Gurian.
General Clippings, 1996
General Clippings, 1997-1998
General Clippings, 1999
General Clippings, 2000
General Clippings, 2001
General Clippings, 2002
General Clippings, 2003
General Clippings, 2004
The Magazine Antiques Issue re: N-YHS, 2005 January
Scope and Contents Note
Issue of Antiques covering aspects of N-YHS collections on the occasion of the 200th anniversary.
General Clippings, 2005-2006
Slavery Exhibition Coverage, 2005
General Clippings, 2011-2013
Series III. Media Coverage Binders, 2004-2009, 2013-2014, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
The series includes press clippings, tearsheets, print-outs of articles, summaries of press coverage, and related documents. In large part these were provided to N-YHS by Burrelle's and other media monitoring services. The coverage relates to particular exhibitions as well as to other N-YHS events, programs, etc. A distinguishing feature of this series is that most of the documents were packaged in plastic pouches and stored in binders. In most instances, the materials were removed from the binders during processing.
Arrangement
The series retains its original order, which is chronological.
Processing Information
The documents were transfered to the Archives from the Communications Department in April 2019 and were added to the finding aid by archivist Larry Weimer in August 2021.
Media coverage binders, 2004-2005, inclusive
Media coverage binders, 2005, inclusive
Media coverage binders, 2005-2006, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes among the packets one that summarizes media placement during October 2005-April 2006 for the Slavery in New York exhibition.