Series II. Subject Files, 1968-2013

Clippings pertaining to a photographic exhibition of more than 100 photos by artists such as Andre Kertesz and Andreas Feiningor.

Clippings about N-YHS's project aimed at compiling a complete edition of the papers of Aaron Burr.

Clippings and other materials on the acquisition of the Smith portrait by Ralph Earl (1751-1801).

An exhibition of John Trumbull's (1756-1843) drawings from the Fordham University collection.

Clippings promoting an exhibition displaying paper currency used as legal tender and scrip prior to the issue of United States notes in 1863.

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.

This folder includes a working schedule for exhibitions between 1977 and 1979.

Includes a checklist of pieces in the exhibition and a photographic contact sheet, presumably with images taken at the exhibition opening.

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.

Includes the press kit with photographs for the exhibition.

Also includes clippings related to N-YHS's showing of the documentary Henry Hudson's River: A Biography.

This folder includes several publications from various Free Masonry groups.

This folder contains lists of coverage of 1981-1982 exhibitions mentioned in the press.

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.

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.

Include articles relating to this exhibition, which emphasized the relationship between Irving and N-YHS.

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.

Relates to the donation of the records of the Leake and Watts Childrens' Home in Yonkers.

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.

Includes a list of the prints selected for this exhibition.

Includes a list of lamps as they appeared in the exhibition.

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.

This exhibition looked at colonial New York through the acquisitions of the following families: the Beekmans, De Peysters, Livingstons, Schuylers, and Van Rensselaers.

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.

Includes one paragraph descriptions and brief artist biography of the many watercolors that were on display in the exhibition.

This folder contains materials about the exhibition celebrating the 180th birthday of N-YHS.

Includes a budget for the exhibition as well as An Outline of Heraldry in England and Scotland, a booklet by Robert Innes-Smith.

This exhibition displayed paintings by Polish-American folk artist Kozlowski.

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.

This folder holds a small scrapbook related to the exhibition.

Folder includes the annual report of the New York City Partnership, Inc. and its affiliates.

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."

This exhibition's centerpiece was a diary kept by George Templeton Strong, and included paintings, sheet music and prints from 1836-1850.

Includes a check list for this holiday exhibition.

Includes photographs of Jewish Museum (Warburg Mansion and List Building) and proposed expansion.

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.

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.

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.

Includes press attendance list.

Includes a print of a photograph of Carnegie from the N-YHS collection (from negative 49533).

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.

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.

Issue of Antiques covering aspects of N-YHS collections on the occasion of the 200th anniversary.