New-York Historical Society Museum Department records
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Abstract
The New-York Historical Society Museum Department records include curatorial, collections management, exhibitions, outgoing loans, administrative, and object files created by museum staff. The bulk of the records range from the 1970s into the early twenty-first century, though there is important earlier material, including acquisition and other documents concerning the John J. Audubon watercolors and the Henry Abbott Egyptian collection. The most extensive portions of the record group relate to exhibitions and loans, and those files are rich with checklists, images, loan documentation, publicity material, research files, comment books, wall texts and labels, design elements, budgets and funding requests, and other like matter. The curatorial and collection management files include documents concerning proposed exhibitions, general exhibition scheduling, research inquiries, offers of objects for accession, object surveys, recommendations to the Board Museum Collection Committee, conservation, and other museum matters. There are also many object images, especially for paintings and drawings.
Biographical/Historical Note
From its founding in 1804, the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) collected paintings, drawings and other museum objects, more commonly referred to as "cabinet" objects in the early 19th century. The collecting of these objects became significantly more ambitious in the late 1850s when N-YHS finally moved from a series of relatively small rented or donated quarters into a building of its own at 2nd Avenue and 11th Street in lower Manhattan. Almost immediately upon occupying this new building, N-YHS acquired the art collection formerly held by the New York Gallery of the Fine Arts, which was built on the private collection of merchant Luman Reed and included such works as Thomas Cole's Course of Empire series.
Despite N-YHS's stated focus in its founding documents on American and New York state history, its actual collecting often deviated from this charge. Ancient coins and medals and natural history objects were among the early deviations. With the expanded space at the 2nd Avenue building, and perhaps with the expectation of establishing a Museum of Antiquities, Science and Art in Central Park, in the 1860s N-YHS acquired many artifacts that would be obviously out of scope by the twentieth century. These included the Abbott Collection of Egyptian antiquities, James Lenox's ancient Nineveh sculptures, and European Old Masters from Thomas J. Bryan's collection. But this acquisitiveness also led in 1863 to the purchase of one of N-YHS's greatest treasures, the watercolors John J. Audubon had drawn for his Birds of America.
N-YHS's 2nd Avenue building allowed for free public access to the galleries, though as the collection grew through the 19th century the building became increasingly cluttered. But more important than the limited physical plant were the broader resource limitations, especially financial, which in turn led to limits on the ability to care for the collection. Into the early twentieth century, N-YHS operated with a very small staff of less than ten people, none of which were conservators or museum specialists. And as N-YHS began to plan for the installation of its museum collection in its new home on Central Park West in 1908, some members began to question the relevance to N-YHS of the non-United States historical objects. Indeed, the large Nineveh sculptures were left behind in the 2nd Avenue building, moved uptown only when the old building was sold in 1912. By 1916, criticism was being directed at N-YHS over the deterioration of the Egyptian artifacts, leading to the hiring of Caroline Ransom Williams and others to conserve and catalogue those objects.
The late 1930s were watershed years for the museum, as they were for N-YHS in general. The large bequest received from the Thompson family in the late 1930s allowed not only for the expansion of the Central Park West building and its gallery space, but the expansion of staff in support of the collections. In 1939, for the first time in its history, N-YHS put in place a professional museum staff, including a Curator of Paintings (Donald A. Shelley), a Museum Curator & Registrar (H. Maxson Holloway), a Painting Restorer (Ingrid M. Held), and assistants. This new organizational structure is reflected in the archives: the bulk of the Museum Department records date from 1939 and later as these new professionals established their own files and records; earlier museum-related records were maintained in the central accession ledgers, correspondence, and other files maintained by the Librarian, who was N-YHS's executive leader to that time. Still, for most of the following decades, the Museum Department staff amounted to fewer than ten people, with only one curator, Richard J. Koke, in place from 1949 to 1969. In 1970, Mary C. Black, a folk arts authority, joined Koke in the department as Curator of Paintings, Sculpture and the Decorative Arts. About the same time, in August 1972, N-YHS received accreditation from the American Association of Museums (AAM).
The 1930s were important in other ways for the museum as well. Deaccessioning of out of scope objects came to the fore. When the Central Park West building closed in 1937 for renovations and expansion, the Egyptian collection was loaned to the Brooklyn Museum. It never returned as N-YHS eventually sold it and other artifacts to the Museum in the 1940s. An ancient medical papyrus was donated to the New York Academy of Medicine. By the 1940s, the possibility of disposing of some or all of the European artworks was being explored, which eventually occurred over time from the 1960s through the 1990s. The deaccessions of the 1990s, not only of European Old Masters but of silver and other objects as well, were highly controversial in part because they coincided with N-YHS's fiscal crisis of the time. The severity of N-YHS's financial problems led to the closing of the museum galleries in January 1993 and, a month later, its withdrawal from the AAM's accreditation program. Deaccessions of out of scope collections came to be recognized as a necessary part of any recovery so auctions moved forward in the mid-1990s within a rigorous formal approval structure within N-YHS and with oversight by the New York State Attorney General.
Through the mid and late twentieth century, N-YHS was also strengthening its collection with such iconic accessions as the folk art collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman (1937 purchase), sculpture groups by John Rogers (1936 purchase), and Tiffany lamps from Egon Neustadt (1984 bequest), among many others. These objects, along with those on loan from other institutions, were installed in hundreds of exhibitions across the last half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. More notable for an organization that seldom, if ever, loaned its objects during its first century, in the 1930s N-YHS began to lend its museum objects regularly to institutions in the United States and internationally. These loans included about one hundred of the Audubon drawings, which left N-YHS for the first time in the mid-1990s to travel to various U.S. museums.
The conservation, care and storage of the museum collection received expanded attention in the mid-1980s with the hiring of a full time conservator, Holly Hotchner. Additional staff was later added and conservation labs created, which continue to the present. Hotchner became Museum Director in 1989, and the Department of Prints, Photographs and Architecture (commonly known as the Print Room) was transferred organizationally from the Library to the Museum, where it would remain until its return to the Library in 1998. Despite the many initiatives of the time, N-YHS's financial difficulties were too deep, leading to the loss of much of the staff and the closing of the galleries in 1993. Nonetheless, thanks in significant part to city and state funding, N-YHS's situation stabilized, key renovations and structural improvements were made to the building, and the galleries re-opened in May 1995 with the exhibition of N-YHS's collection highlights arranged to illustrate American history, Treasury of the Past. Major renovations continued in the 1990s culminating in 2000 with the opening of the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, which housed nearly 40,000 objects for public access. Behind the scenes, collections management moved into the twenty-first century with the implementation of a desktop computer application for object level control.
Arrangement Note
The record group is organized in six series:
Series I. Select Collections Correspondence
Series II. Exhibitions
Series III. Curatorial and Administration Files
Series IV. Collection Management Files
Series V. Catalogues, Inventories & Surveys
Series VI. Object Images
Scope and Contents Note
The Museum Department record group includes curatorial, collections management, exhibitions, administrative, and object files created by museum staff. The record group includes some important 19th and early-mid 20th century material but most of the documents date from the 1970s and into the early twenty-first century.
The most extensive portions of the record group concerns exhibitions, especially those from the 1980s to 2012. Although there is great inconsistency in the level of documentation across individual exhibitions, overall the files are rich with checklists, images, loan documentation, publicity material, research files, comment books, wall texts and labels, design elements, budgets and funding requests, and other like matter. In addition to exhibitions installed at N-YHS, the record group also includes files of outgoing loans to other institutions, such as the first ever traveling exhibition of the Audubon watercolors in the 1990s, and proposals and plans for exhibitions that did not go forward.
The record group includes some accession records. These are principally found in the collections management/registrar files for the 1940s-1960s, but 19th century acquisition documents for the Audubon watercolors and the Henry Abbott Egyptian collection are in the files, as selectively compiled correspondence. This correspondence also includes records of the transfer of the Abbott and certain other out of scope collections to the Brooklyn Museum in the 1940s. The record group holds object photograph files, primarily for paintings and drawings, and these hold a small number of accession and other documents as well.
The record group holds the files of three museum directors or curators of the late 20th century, including Mary C. Black (1970-1982), Holly Hotchner (1989-1994), Annette Blaugrund (1989-1995), and to a lesser extent, Jack Rutland (circa 1995-1999). These files, and other general museum files, largely concern exhibition planning, object surveys and inquiries, offers of purchases or donations, and the like. The curatorial staff's records and recommendations related to the Board Museum Committee are in this record group, though these are subject to restrictions; see the Access Restrictions note. The files also include administrative matters, such as budgets, grant proposals, staffing, etc.
In addition to the image files mentioned above, the record group holds other descriptive material for objects, including lantern slides of works by American and European artists, John Delafield's 1830 inventory of ancient coins and medals held by N-YHS, Leonidas Westervelt's inventory of his Jenny Lind Collection, and annotated manuscript versions of Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society (1974), Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society (1974), and American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society (1982).
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Access Restrictions
N-YHS restricts Board of Trustee and Executive Office files for 50 years following the departure of a President and Chief Executive Officer. This restriction pertains to portions of this record group. Any restrictions are further described in an Access Restrictions Note at the relevant series and subseries level.
Most of the materials in this collection are 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 collection should be cited as the New-York Historical Society Museum Department records (NYHS-RG 20), The New-York Historical Society.
Location of Materials
Accruals Note
Further accruals to the record group are expected over time.
About this Guide
Processing Information Note
Various portions of records from the Museum Department were physically processed during the early 1990s to the early 2000s, mostly in terms of refoldering documents to archival folders. Related material was also gathered together in boxes, though some material remained in original storage boxes. In 2016, archivist Larry Weimer established an overarching arrangement for all the Museum Department records in the archive and, with archivist Margaret Kaczorowski and archival intern Katherine Palm, completed a baseline inventory and finding aid for the entire record group. Certain steps were taken with the material, including physical arrangement of folders and re-boxing, in order to facilitate its use by researchers, but an overall minimal level of physical processing was implemented. Consequently, much of the material remains in its original folders and unarranged within folders.
About 40 additional feet of material was transferred to the archives from the museum in 2017-2020; this was added to the finding aid in April-May 2021 by archivist Larry Weimer.
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Repository
Series I. Select Collections Correspondence, circa 1848-1992
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Scope and Contents Note
The series includes materials that were compiled over time that relate to particular museum collections. The collections referenced are the Henry Abbott Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, the Nathan Jarvis Native American Collection, the John J. Audubon drawings for Birds of America, the Bryan and Durr collections of European paintings, and the Rogers groups. Other collections are referenced, especially in connection with the transfer of various non-United States objects to the Brooklyn Museum and elsewhere in 1937 and later; these files include documentation of those transfers.
The actual content for each subject matter varies considerably and is summarized in the container list. The Abbott, Jarvis, and Audubon files include original acquisition documents; the Bryan, Durr, and Rogers files do not. Correspondence and some legal filings in connection with the eventual deaccession of some European paintings is in the series. Arrangements for the reproduction of the Audubon drawings, especially the arrangements with American Heritage, are in the files. The Rogers group correspondence primarily consists of offers to N-YHS of statuettes by individual owners.
Arrangement Note
The series is arranged by topic, which is generally a particular collection or topic related to a collection.
Processing Information Note
The content of the series was compiled and processed, likely in the 1990s and early 2000s. The arrangement was refined and description developed in August 2016 by project archivist Larry Weimer.
Henry Abbott's Collection of Egyptian Antiquities (18 folders), circa 1852-circa 1920
Scope and Contents Note
Includes documents related to public appeals by Henry Abbott in the 1850s for funds in connection with his collection, N-YHS's purchase in 1860 of the collection, later inquiries and research notes, original catalogues of the Abbott Collection (1854) and N-YHS's catalogues (1915, 1924). The files also include photographs and personal letters or typescripts of Abbott's, including an 1852 letter from Abbott to R. Minturn regarding his shipment of cases of antiquities from Egypt. The deed of purchase between N-YHS and Abbott's estate is in a separate, oversize container.
Henry Abbott's Collection of Egyptian Antiquities. Oversize, 1860
Scope and Contents Note
Includes N-YHS's deed of purchase of the collection from the Abbott estate. See also New-York Historical Society pictorial archive (NYHS-RG 5) for an oversize 1864 poster for a lecture on Egypt sponsored by N-YHS.
Jarvis Collections (3 folders), circa 1848-1933
Scope and Contents Note
Includes inventories, correspondence, photoreproductions, notes, and other documents related to the gift of Nathan S. Jarvis of Native American artifacts (1848) and a bequest (1933) of similar artifacts from Jarvis's son.
Transfer of Egyptian, Jarvis, and Other Collections to the Brooklyn Museum (16 folders), 1937-1955
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence, inventories, agreements, and other documentation concerning the loan (1937) of the Abbott Collection, Nineveh sculptures, Jarvis Indian artifacts, and Mexican pottery to the Brooklyn Museum (i.e., the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences) and eventual sale to the Museum. Also includes documents regarding the transfer of the Edwin Smith Medical Papyrus to the New York Academy of Medicine.
John J. Audubon Collection (9 folders), 1862-1863, 1954, 1969
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence, including letters from Robert Havell, Committee reports, subscription books, and other documents concerning N-YHS's purchase in 1863 of the Audubon drawings for Birds of America from Lucy Audubon. The material also includes documentation of gifts in the 20th century of the 1826-1838 elephant folio and related objects (1954) and Audubon's writing desk (1969). See also New-York Historical Society General Correspondence (NYHS-RG 2), Series I. Notable Correspondents, Box 66, folder 10 for correspondence to N-YHS from Lucy Audubon and some letters from Frederic DePeyster to Lucy.
Audubon Letters & Journals Publication, 1928-1933
Scope and Contents Note
Folder includes correspondence to and from Howard Corning and others, and other documents, concerning Corning's publication of Audubon's letters and journals in 1930-31 through The Club of Odd Volumes.
Audubon Reproductions (14 folders), 1956-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Principally includes files related to publication of the drawings by American Heritage. Also includes proposals by other publishers, permission to publish select items by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1956), and documents in connection with the ceremony for the issuance of an Audubon postage stamp (1985). See also New-York Historical Society Artifacts (NYHS-RG ) for a commemorative sheet of the stamps. See also New-York Historical Society Board of Trustees Records (NYHS-RG 18), Series III. John E. Parsons Papers for addtional documents related to the American Heritage reproductions.
European Paintings / Bryan & Durr Collections (16 folders), 1868-1870, 1902-1971
Scope and Contents Note
Includes documents related principally to the T.J. Bryan Collection, but also to other European art held by N-YHS, including Durr and Luman Reed. Includes the original auction catalogues (1868-1870) related to some of the Bryan holdings, the N-YHS 1903 art gallery catalogue annotated with updated attributions, other attribution notes, correspondence with Columbia University (1940s-1950s) concerning the possible permanent loan of the European paintings to that school, and correspondence, legal filings, and other documents related to the possible deaccession of the Old Masters. See also New-York Historical Society Bequests, Gifts & Related Matters (NYHS-RG 16) for the original 19th century Bryan documents.
European Paintings / Bryan Collection (14 folders), 1952-1991, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The documents include petitions and other legal filings and rulings related to N-YHS's successful efforts in the 1960s-1980s to modify the original conditions of the Bryan indenture. The filings include photocopies of documents from earlier dates than the 1960s-80s. The files also include sale catalogues (1971, 1980), correspondence, reports to the state Attorney General, and other documents.
Egon Neustadt Tiffany Collection (13 folders), 1971-1988, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Concerns various aspects of the Neustadt collection of Tiffany glass objects, including the loan and donation of select objects to N-YHS, arrangements with Neustadt to act as a curator, the exhibition of the objects, theft of some of them, assessments by some observers that there were frauds in the collection, matters subsequent to Neustadt's death in 1984, storage arrangements at N-YHS for the Neustadt Museum, and other matters.
Rogers Group Inquiries (10 folders), 1932-1951
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence to N-YHS from various individuals, principally in 1932 and in 1939, with offers of Rogers statuettes, requests for appraisals, or other such matters. Although these files relate to N-YHS's interest in obtaining Rogers groups, they do not appear to relate directly to those actually owned. See also New-York Historical Society Legal Matters (NYHS-RG 16), Series I. Bequests, Gifts, and Related Matters, folder Rogers, Katherine R. for documents concerning N-YHS's purchase of 36 bronze groups in 1936.
Series II. Exhibitions, 1941-2018, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The Exhibitions series includes files related to the planning and presentation of exhibitions at N-YHS, especially for the 1980s and later, though there are a few files for the 1970s and earlier. The bulk of the files include documentation compiled from various sources within the Museum Department of specific exhibitions. Although the specific content varies widely by exhibition, documents can include checklists, images, loan documentation, publicity material, research files, comment books, wall texts and labels, design elements, budgets and funding requests, and other like matter. Not all exhibitions are represented in the series and some are very lightly documented. On the other hand, several are more extensively documented, such as the traveling exhibition of the Audubon watercolors in the 1990s. The bulk of the files relate to installed exhibitions, but some proposed exhibitions are also included, perhaps most notably the files for the planning of a 1990s exhibition concerning the Tenth Street Studio Building.
Files related to exhibitions were transferred to the archives over time by various members of the museum staff. Consequently, important exhibition files can be found in other Museum series, especially the Curatorial and the Collections Management series.
Arrangement Note
The series is organized in the following subseries:
Subseries II.A. General Files
Subseries II.B. Audubon Traveling Exhibition
Subseries II.C. Jack Rutland and Margaret Tamulonis Files
Subseries II.D. Kimberly Orcutt Files
Generally, the General Files are the records of individual exhibitions that appear to have been compiled from various sources and were organized together by the processing archivist. The Rutland/Tamulonis and Orcutt subseries include the files of particular individuals that include records of various exhibitions.
Subseries II.A. General Files, 1941-2018, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes files that appear to have been compiled over time for the purpose of documenting various aspects of particular exhibitions presented at N-YHS. The subseries includes only a few folders of material from before 1970. An increased number of files appear for the 1970s and early 1980s, and these appear to be largely from the files of the curator at that time, Mary Black. The bulk of the files date from after 1982 and seem to have come from various sources within the Museum Department (which included the Department of Prints, Photographs and Architecture collections in the 1990s), including curators, collections management/registrar, researchers, and others. In addition to installed exhibitions, the files also include some proposed exhibitions that never took place.
The type of documentation present for each exhibition is highly uneven, ranging from one folder with a document or two to extensive documentation of various aspects of an exhibition. Typical documentation found for many of the exhibitions includes checklists or other object lists, loan agreements and receipts, and publicity material. Other textual documents that can be found for many exhibitions are installation and design descriptions, wall and label text, conservation notes, budgets, grant or other funding proposals, correspondence/printed emails, and other planning documents. There are a few public comment books and the container list notes when these are in an exhibition's files. Some exhibitions include the sometimes extensive research files of the curator, public historian, or other exhibition developer. For traveling exhibitions, there is some documentation concerning arrangements and logistics.
In terms of images, there is a noticeable contrast between the files before and after circa 2003. Some exhibition files from the 1970s-1990s have object photographs and several have color slides of the installed galleries. The gallery slides are exceptional enough that an attempt was made by the archivist to identify them and note them in the container list. In the early 2000s, with the emergence of workplace digital technology, images become more common in the files. Many files from this later period have object lists with "thumbnail" sized color images. The press/publicity materials commonly include a professionally-produced CD with the paper material. Informally-created CDs from curators, researchers, conservators, and others are in the files, though not all are well-labeled as to content. Similarly, some of the later exhibitions have CDs of audio tours and other exhibition-related matter. Some of these CDs (and DVDs) are noted in the container list, but most are not because of their increasingly common presence (and often unclear content).
Arrangement Note
The subseries is arranged in chronological order, based on the opening year of the exhibition. Generally only that year is shown in the container list although there are likely to be earlier or later documents in the file.
Note on labels: Many of the folders in the boxes are labeled with shorthand or working titles, not the full final exhibition title. Some of the folder labels in a set even refer to different titles, and planning documents commonly refer to various titles. The container list below attempts to smooth these differences by referring as often as possible to the full final name of the exhibition and by providing any alternative titles in a note. Nonetheless, researchers should be alert to the possibility of disconnects between the title as shown in the container list and the exhibition's actual title as they know it, as well as disconnects between the title in the container list and that on the physical folders.
Access Restrictions
Most or all of these files are expected to be stored off-site and so require advance notice in order to access them.
Processing Information Note
Until 2016, the content of the subseries was held in various boxes that were generally well-arranged by exhibition within each box, but with no overarching organization or description across the whole. Across this fragmented whole, some files had been transferred to archival folders and received some processing, though most files remained in original files. In September 2016, archivists Margaret Kaczorowski and Larry Weimer compiled and organized the whole, and created the description for the subseries in this finding aid. Little additional physical processing was done so the bulk of the files remain in their original folders, though occasionally mixed with previously processed material.
7 additional boxes of exhibition files, from the late 1990s-2003 were transferred to the archives in 2018-19 and added to the finding aid in April 2021.
Former Governors and Mayors; 19th Century Hotels, Undated
Scope and Contents Note
Includes summary description of two exhibitions, date unknown.
American Scenes & Events on Textiles, 1941
Scope and Contents Note
Includes only a photocopy of the catalogue.
250th Anniversary of Trinity Church, 1947
American Presentation Silver, 1947
Scope and Contents Note
Includes curatorial object notes. Document was transferred to the record group in November 2017 from the Miscellaneous Manuscripts/American Historical Manuscripts Collection where it had been filed under S for silver.
Country Houses on Manhattan Island, 1952
The New York "El", 1955
Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York (2 folders), 1959
Various, 1960s
Scope and Contents Note
Includes label text for Incas of Peru and other unidentified exhibitions.
Eye on the City: The Photographer in New York, 1970
City of Promise: Aspects of Jewish Life in New York, 1971
Sculpture Show, 1972?
New York to the Eve of Revolution, 1973
New York, The New Empire: John Pintard and His Society, 1974
American Silhouette (2 folders), 1974
Manhattan Now: 14 Photographers Look at the Form of the Old City (12 folders), 1974
Moving: 300 Hundred Years of Transportation in New York (3 folders), 1976
Shakers in New York State (3 folders), 1975
New York Cabinetmaker and His Use of Space (7 folders), 1976
Op Sail (6 folders), 1976
Remember the Ladies, 1977
200 Years of American Illustration, 1976
Fashions and Facades: Photographs by William Cunningham, 1976
The Dutch Republic in the Days of John Adams, 1976
New York Then and Now: Photographs of New York in the Past and Present, 1977
Think Small (2 folders), 1978
The Art of the Conservator: New Life for Old Objects (2 folders), 1978
Street Kids (Children's Aid Society) (3 folders), 1978
Artists and Architects of the New York Subway (2 folders), 1979
Artists and Architects of the New York Subway. Oversize, 1979
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a decal for the #6 New York City subway line.
By a Child's Hand Wrought, 1979
Proposed Exhibition. Magna Carta, 1979
55 Wall Street: A Working Landmark (Citibank) (9 folders), 1980
Tiffany Silver (6 folders), 1980
Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America (2 folders), 1980
That Belmont Look (3 folders), 1980
The Phrenology of the Land: How to Read the Topography of New York Province and State (2 folders), 1980
The Mayor's House: Gracie Mansion (2 folders), 1981
Collaboration: Artists & Architects, 1981
Exhibition Proposal. 200th Anniversary of Episcopal Diocese of New York
Cast With Style: 19th Century Cast Iron Stoves from the Albany Area (2 folders), 1982
Cancelled Exhibition. Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Ideal, 1982
Sailing Ships in Dutch Prints: Four Centuries of Naval Art from the Rijksmuseum, 1982
Breaking Ground: Open Spaces Temporary & Accidental, 1982
Exhibition Proposal. Britain Salutes New York / British Travelers in New York, 1982
The Birth of New York: Nieuw Amsterdam (13 folders), 1982
Manhattan Observed: 14 Photographers Look at New York (3 folders), 1982
Oom-Pah-Pah: The Great American Brass Band (12 folders), 1982
Oom-Pah-Pah: The Great American Brass Band. Oversize, 1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a poster.
Grand Central Terminal: City Within the City (2 folders), 1982
Proposed Exhibition. Iroquois in New York State, 1982
A Celebration: American Landscape Painting, Genre Art, & Drawing (2 folders), 1983
Struggle for a Continent: Francis Parkman's "France & England in North America" (2 folders), 1983
Firefighting on Parade, 1983
New York Themes: Paintings & Etchings by William Meyerowitz & Theresa Bernstein (5 folders), 1983
Lights, Camera, Action: New York's Silent Film Studios, 1983
The Egon and Hildegard Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass. Oversize, 1983
Scope and Contents Note
Includes six blueline drawings of the gallery lay-out and design elements.
The Adirondacks: A Wilderness Preserved, 1984
Five New York Families (2 folders), 1984
Visions of Liberty (3 folders), 1984
Lost in a Shuffle: Playing Cards & Board Games, 1984
The City Comes of Age, 1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of installation.
Baroness Hyde de Neuville: Sketches of America, 1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of installation.
Karol Kowalski, 1985
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of installation.
Metropolis in Mourning: Ulysses S. Grant (3 folders), 1985
Centuries of Childhood (3 folders), 1985
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Audubon's Birds of North America: The Original Watercolors (3 folders), 1985
Statue of Liberty Centennial Celebration, 1985
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Chicago and New York: Architectural Interaction (4 folders), 1985
Artist in Residence: The North Country Art of Frederic Remington, 1985
Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitude (10 folders), 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Prized Prints (8 folders), 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
P.T. Barnum (6 folders), 1986
Liberty's Legacy: Photographs of New York's Ethnic Festivals (8 folders), 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
James Henry Cafferty, 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Treasures of Botanical Illustrations (6 folders), 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Storied Shores: Lake George in Legend & History (4 folders), 1986
Proposed Exhibition. Robert Fulton, 1986
Portraits of Power: Paintings from the Collection of the New York Chamber of Commerce & Industry (7 folders), 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Made for New York: Antique Toys from the Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson Collection (10 folders), 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Made for New York: Antique Toys from the Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson Collection. Oversize, 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes one blueline drawing of design elements.
A Portrait of Livingston Manor (9 folders), 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
The Pleasure of Your Company: Parties & Balls in New York City (2 folders), 1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey (9 folders), 1987
Audubon: Selected Breeding Birds of New York State, 1987
Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene (5 folders), 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Ex Libris Rufus King (2 folders), 1987
Government by Choice: Inventing the United States Constitution (20 folders), 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation. Several of the folders are labeled as Are We To Be a Nation? The Making of the Federal Constitution, which was the exhibition held at New York Public Library to which N-YHS loaned objects. These folders include some of the related loan documents, but principally include more Government by Choice documents.
Government by Choice: Inventing the United States Constitution. Oversize, 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes design plans by Leone Design Group and sponsor (Country Home Magazine) poster for the lecture series.
Government by Choice: Inventing the United States Constitution. Oversize, 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes two blueline drawings of the gallery lay-out.
Jasper Cropsey: Artist & Architect (10 folders), 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Jasper Cropsey: Artist & Architect. Oversize, 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes four blueline drawings of design elements.
New York Bestiary: Pets & Pests of Metropolis (5 folders), 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
The Wagstaff Collection of American Silver (10 folders), 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
The Wagstaff Collection of American Silver. Oversize, 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes two blueline drawings of design elements.
Hudson River and the Highlands: Photographs by Robert Glenn Ketchum (8 folders), 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
The Blizzard of '88 (2 folders), 1988
Bellows, Bobbins, & Butterchurns: Keeping House in 19th Century America (7 folders), 1988
Francis W. Edmonds: American Master in the Dutch Tradition (11 folders), 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Artistic Houses: Lavish Interiors of 19th Century New York (5 folders), 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
The Rise & Fall of New York: Building & Unbuilding Manhattan (9 folders), 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
The Invisible Surface: Paper & the Printing Arts in Early America (4 folders), 1988
Arnold Newman (7 folders), 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Hard Cider & Hot Air (5 folders), 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Celebrating the Holidays in New York (9 folders), 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Celebrating the Holidays in New York. Oversize, 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes two blueline drawings of the gallery lay-out.
The Belknap Collection of Silver & Portraits (6 folders), 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Burr McIntosh: Polite Society (5 folders), 1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Flag Paintings of Childe Hassam (Hurry for Old Glory), 1989
George Washington in New York (9 folders), 1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Irving Browning (2 folders), 1989
Posters by Edward Penfield (3 folders), 1989
Cased Images: The 150th Anniversary of Photography (2 folders), 1989
An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum (9 folders), 1989
An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum. Oversize, 1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes one blueline drawing of the gallery lay-out.
Beth Israel Hospital Centennial (3 folders), 1989
Calyo (7 folders), 1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation.
Below the Line: Living Poor in America (7 folders), 1990
Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition (8 folders), 1990
World War II Posters, 1990
Thomas Jefferson Bryan: Changing Attributions (3 folders), 1990
Manhattan Contrasts: 20th Century Paintings of New York (2 folders), 1990
Charles Gilbert Hine: Impressions of a City (3 folders), 1990
Luman Reed Gallery (13 folders), 1990
Imagining the New World: Columbian Iconography (3 folders), 1991
Imagining the New World: Columbian Iconography (12 folders), 1991
Imagining the New World: Columbian Iconography. Oversize, 1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes two blueline drawings of the gallery lay-out.
While They Fought: The Home Front in New York City (2 folders), 1991
Dreams & Shadows: Thomas H. Hotchkiss in 19th Century Italy (13 folders), 1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of objects.
Native Americans in American Art & Culture (5 folders, 1991
Views & Visionaries in 19th Century America: Paintings from the Collection of The Century Association, 1992
Ansel Adams (2 folders), 1992
Victorian Pleasures: 19th Century Board & Table Games (6 folders), 1992
Building City Hall: Competition, Construction, & Context (John McComb) (4 folders), 1992
Party Time: Presidential Campaigns Since 1832 (5 folders), 1992
Stonewall History Project (7 folders), 1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes early planning documents from 1992 for a targeted 1994 series of commemorations.
The Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt (8 folders), 1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes comments book.
A Forest Forever: Art & the Adirondacks (11 folders), 1992
Mother Goose in New York: McLoughlin Books & the Art of Woodcut Illustration (5 folders), 1992
Rembrandt Peale: Career of an American Artist (5 folders), 1993
Exhibition at Sony Corporation (5 folders), 1993
Proposed Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection (10 folders), 1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes material concerning a reinstallation that did not occur at this time. A working title for the reinstallation appears to have been Preserving History: Patronage and Collecting at the New-York Historical Society. This working title was similar to the working title Painting and Patronage for the proposed, but never installed, exhibition concerning the Tenth Street Studio (see below). Consequently, the files for each seem to have been confused with documents for both matters in one or the other's files. During processing in 2016, the archivist attempted to sort these out, but some mixture likely remains. Accordingly, researchers interested in the permanent installation (Patronage and Collecting) should also refer to the Tenth Street files (Painting and Patronage), and vice versa.
Painting and Patronage: The Tenth Street Studios (11 of 19 folders), 1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes working files, likely those principally of curator Annette Blaugrund, for a proposed exhibition that was initially targeted for 1993 or 1994, but was postponed to 1996 or 1997. It appears to have never been installed at N-YHS, though N-YHS loaned objects to an exhibition of this title curated by Blaugrund in 1997 at the Parrish Museum of Art and the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts. An alternative working title was Show and Sell: The Marketing of Art in the Tenth Street Studio Building. The principal working title of Painting and Patronage for exhibition was similar enough to the working title of N-YHS's planned reinstallation of the permanent collection that the files for each seem to have been confused with documents for both matters in one or the other's files. During processing in 2016, the archivist attempted to sort these out, but some mixture likely remains. Accordingly, researchers interested in the Tenth Street files (Painting and Patronage) should also refer to the permanent installation files (Patronage and Collecting), and vice versa.
Painting and Patronage: The Tenth Street Studios (8 of 19 folders), 1993
19th Century American Masterworks from N-YHS / Exhibition at The Equitable Gallery (7 folders), 1994
The Grand American Avenue / On the Avenue, Fifth Avenue (9 folders), 1995
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (11 folders), 1995
Scope and Contents Note
Originally planned for installation at N-YHS, but because of building renovations at the time, the exhibition was installed at the Brooklyn Museum in partnership with N-YHS.
Wrought in Common Clay: New York Stoneware from N-YHS Collections (2 folders), 1995, inclusive
Treasury of the Past (12 folders), 1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files related to the exhibition of N-YHS collection highlights that was installed to mark the re-opening of the N-YHS galleries. "Treasures," "Treasury," and "Treasures of the Past" are common shorthand names for the exhibition used in these and other files. Includes color slides of the installation.
Inventory / Christian Boltanski (2 folders), 1995
Who Was Pocahontas?, 1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes only color slides of the installation.
You Are Here: Perspectives on New York From the Map Collection of N-YHS (9 folders), 1995
Clement Clark Moore and A Visit From St. Nicholas (2 folders), 1995
Clement Clark Moore and A Visit From St. Nicholas (2 folders), 1995, inclusive
Creating Fame, 1995
Becoming Eleanor Roosevelt: The Early New York Years (10 folders), 1996, inclusive
Becoming Eleanor Roosevelt: The Early New York Years, 1996
Scope and Contents Note
Includes comments book only.
Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (9 folders), 1996, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation.
Scaasi: The Joy of Dressing Up (2 folders), 1996, inclusive
Tiffany Glass (6 folders), 1996?
Scope and Contents Note
This set of folders includes various documents, principally from the 1980s-1990s, related to Tiffany lamps and glass, apparently in connection with the 1996 installation. One folder includes education material for in-gallery use with grade school childen.
In Search of Light: Tiffany Lamps (3 folders), 1996, inclusive
New York: Then & Now, Upper West Side, 1996
Scope and Contents Note
Includes only the comments book.
New York: Then & Now, Upper West Side (2 folders), 1991, 1996, bulk
Scope and Contents
Includes circa 1991 proposal for series of exhibitions "New York Then & Now" and color slides of the 1996 Upper West Side installation.
In Cold Blood: Five Murders that Shocked New York (8 folders), 1996, inclusive
Child Rearing in New York (2 folders), 1996
Scope and Contents Note
Appears to be only a proposed exhibition.
Victoria Woodhull (4 folders), 1996, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation.
Privy to History (2 folders), 1996, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation.
An Unquenchable Thirst: Springs and Wells of New York City (2 folders), 1997, inclusive
Feathers! (2 folders), 1997, inclusive
From New York to Salt Lake: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (2 folders), 1997, inclusive
To Hell With Reform: The Race to Become Mayor of Greater New York (8 folders), 1997, inclusive
John Albok (1 folder), 1997?, inclusive
On the Nose: Spectacles and Other Optical Fashions (3 folders), 1997, inclusive
Signs and Wonders: The Spectacular Lights of Times Square (6 folders), 1997, inclusive
Refuge: The Newest New Yorkers [Mel Rosenthal photographs] (5 folders), 1997, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes slides of the exhibition images.
Militant Metropolis: New York City and the Spanish-American War, 1998
Militant Metropolis: New York City and the Spanish-American War (2 folders), 1998, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Also referred to as "Imperial Ambition."
Treasures from Mount Vernon: George Washington Revealed, 1998
Treasures from Mount Vernon: George Washington Revealed (6 folders), 1998, inclusive
From Pushcarts to Restaurants DeLuxe: Dining in New York at the Turn-of-the-Century (1 folder), 1998, inclusive
Landmarks of New York (1 folder), 1998, inclusive
Unconventional Currier & Ives (7 folders), 1998, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation.
Uniting Neighbors (2 folders), 1998, inclusive
Kid City (6 folders), 1998, inclusive
Fading Ad Campaign [Photographs by Frank Jump] (3 folders), 1998, inclusive
William Sidney Mount: Painter of American Life (7 folders), 1998, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes photos of installation.
Nineteenth Century Etchings from the Collection of Dave and Reba Williams (5 folders), 1998, inclusive
George B. Post: Great American Architect (4 folders), 1998, inclusive
New York's Finest: A History of the New York City Police Department (6 folders), 1998, inclusive
New York's Finest: A History of the New York City Police Department (16 folders), 1998, inclusive
Paul Robeson: Bearer of a Culture (9 folders), 1998, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation.
The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle & Achievement (8 of 16 folders), 1999
The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle & Achievement (8 of 16 folders), 1999
Winter in New York, 1999
Yadda Yadda Yadda: New York in Quotes (1 folder), 1999, inclusive
Secrets of a Beautiful Face: Beauty Product Advertisements from te Collection of the New-York Historical Society (4 folders), 1999, inclusive
John N. Genin: Celebrated Hatter (3 folders), 1999, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation
Building History: History Building (4 folders), 1999, inclusive
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet (15 folders), 1999, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation, and a cassette tape of music.
Uncle Sam: The Face of a Nation (6 folders), 1999, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation.
Glimmers of the Past: Presentation Silver from the Collection of the New-York Historical Society (3 folders), 1999, inclusive
Putting it on Paper: Two Centuries of American Drawings & Watercolors from the Collection of New-York Historical Society (5 folders), 1999, inclusive
$24: The Legendary Deal for Manhattan (4 folders), 1999, inclusive
Masterworks of 19th Century American Painting (8 folders), 1999, inclusive
Times Square: A Century in Photographs (5 folders), 2000
Jenny Lind: The Swedish Nightingale in America (7 folders), 2000
Audubon: The Birds of Winter (6 folders), 2000
Scope and Contents Note
Some of the documents refer to a different title, which might be a different exhibition, Audubon in Charleston.
Jesse Tarbox Beals: On Assignment (6 folders), 2000
Fit for a King / Conservation of the Louis XVI Chair (7 folders), 2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation and color contact sheets and negatives of the conservation work.
New York on the Brink: The City's Fiscal Crisis of the 1970s (7 folders), 2000
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (10 folders), 2000
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. Oversize, 2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the comments book.
Magnum: Our Turning World: Photographs (11 folders), 2000
Stork Club (10 folders), 2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the comments book.
New York Inside Out (13 folders), 2000
Manhattan Contrasts: 20th Century Paintings of New York from the Collection of N-YHS (3 folders), 2000
Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert (9 folders), 2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation and two comment books.
Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert (3 folders), 2000, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes early (mid 1990s) proposal documents.
American Art Posters of the 1890s (7 folders), 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes documents related to the exhibition of N-YHS's posters at the Cincinnati Art Museum (1999), including color slides, and later (2000) exhibition at N-YHS. Some documents specifically refer to the Strobridge Lithographing Company Poster Collection, which may or may not be a different exhibition.
Looking at History, 2000
Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher Durand and William Cullen Bryant (8 folders), 2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of objects and installation. Also includes color slides of Recent Acquisitions: Juan Pliego, Craft Silversmith and of the hallway, stairs and galleries found with the Intimate Friends slides.
Eye of the Storm: The Civil War Sketches of Robert K. Sneden (10 folders), 2000
Pray For Me: Letters & Diaries from American Wars (4 folders), 2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes comments book.
Remedies for Old Age / Exhibitions at Pfizer, Inc. (6 folders), 1998-2000
Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging / Chester Higgins, Jr. (12 folders), 2000
The Changing Face of Liberty: Female Allegories of America (7 folders), 2000
Advertising Drama, 2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes only the comments book.
New Eyes: Art by N-YHS High School Students, 2001
The Sight of Music: Prints from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams (7 folders), 2001
Choosing to Participate: Facing History & Ourselves (7 folders), 2001
Walk About: Past & Present Views of New York (8 folders), 2001
Nightwalks: Irwin Silver (4 folders), 2001
Out of Time: Designs for the 20th Century Future (6 folders), 2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes comments book.
Against the Storm: Images of Lighthouses from the Collections of N-YHS (4 folders), 2001
Independence and Its Enemies in New York (6 folders), 2001
Up on the Roof: The Culture of New York City Rooftops (7 of 18), 2001
Up on the Roof: The Culture of New York City Rooftops (11 of 18), 2001
Scope and Contents Note
Most of the files for this exhibition in this box are the working research files of Kathleen Hulser.
Up on the Roof: The Culture of New York City Rooftops. Oversize, 2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes oversize photographs; the folder is labeled as "unclear if used in exhibit."
In Memoriam (9/11 Memorial), 2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes only the comments book.
In Memoriam, 2001, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes two comment books.
New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers, 2001
Luman Reed Gallery, 2000-2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes various documents related to the use or possible use of the Luman Reed Gallery for exhibitions.
Flophouse: Life on the Bowery (6 folders), 2001
Flophouse: Life on the Bowery (9 folders), 2001, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes comments book.
Exhibition Proposals (Unrealized), circa 2001-2004
The Rosenbergs Reconsidered: The Death Penalty in the Cold War Era (4 folders), 2001
The Rosenbergs Reconsidered: The Death Penalty in the Cold War Era (8 folders), 2001, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation.
Manhattan Unfurled, 2001
Manhattan Unfurled [Matteo Pericoli] (7 folders), 2001, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation.
Ralph Fasanella's America (9 folders), 2001, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes one DVD (4.7 GB) of uncertain digital content, labeled Fasanella and dated Feb 26, 2002 (several months after exhibition closed).
The British in New York Since 1770, 2001
Missing: Streetscape of a City in Mourning (4 folders), 2002, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes comments book.
Twin Towers Remembered [Camilo Jose Vergara] (5 folders), 2002, inclusive
Family Matters: Century-Old New York City Businesses (9 folders), 2002
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of the installation. Includes 7 CDs labelled overall as "Master CDs," with logos, blow-ups, scrapbook, and other unclear matter.
September 11: One Year Later, 2002
World Trade Center Monument (Research File), circa 2002
Reading Uncle Tom's Image: A Reconsideration of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 150 Year-Old Character & His Legacy (4 of 13 folders), 2002
Scope and Contents Note
The bulk of the Reading Uncle Tom files appear to be those of public historian/researcher Kathleen Hulser.
Reading Uncle Tom's Image (9 of 13 folders), 2002
Reading Uncle Tom's Image (7 folders), 2002, inclusive
Me, Myself & Infrastructure: Private Lives & Public Works in America, 2002
Me, Myself & Infrastructure: Private Lives & Public Works in America (7 folders), 2002, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation.
Building on the Flatiron: The Centenary of a New York Icon, 2002
Building on the Flatiron: The Centenary of a New York Icon (5 folders), 2002, inclusive
The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives (7 folders), 2002, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes slides of the photos.
The Angry Dove: 20th Anniversary of the June 12, 1982 Nuclear Disarmament Demonstration (3 folders), 2002, inclusive
Presidential Manuscript Treasures Revolving Exhibition, 2002
Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America, 2002
Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America (4 folders), 2002, inclusive
Life on the Lapel, 2002
Life on the Lapel (6 folders), 2002, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation. Includes comments book.
Freedom: A History of US, 2002
Freedom: A History of US (4 folders), 2002, inclusive
Gouverneur Morris Treasures (4 folders), 2002, inclusive
Home of the Free: A Student Photojournalism Project (2 folders), 2002, inclusive
New York Diary: The Collages of John Evans (6 folders), 2002, inclusive
Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs (8 folders), 2002, inclusive
The Games We Played: American Board & Table Games from the Liman Collection (8 folders), 2002, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes transparencies of games, 5 CDs of digital images of exhibition content, and color slides of the installation.
Seat of Empire: Napoleon's Armchair from Malmaison to Manhattan, 2002
Seat of Empire: Napoleon's Armchair from Malmaison to Manhattan (13 folders), 2002, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the installation. Includes 5 CD-Rs with digital images of "virtual restoration" and perhaps other images.
Course of Empire: Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Tradition of Landscape Painting (4 folders), 2003
Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business, 2003
Three Women Photographers [Beals, Hervey, Hewitt], 2003
Scope and Contents Note
Includes only a services agreement with a consulting curator.
Three Women Photographers [Beals, Hervey, Hewitt] (2 folders), 2003, inclusive
African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2003
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of objects.
Telling Lives Kiosk, 2003
Scope and Contents Note
Also referred to as the LifeTimes project. The file also has a seemingly unrelated draft budget for the Madison Square Garden 125th Anniversary exhibition (planned for 2004).
Remembering the Forgotten Ones: Selections from the Milton Rogovin Collection, 2003
Julz Rulz: Inside the Mind of Jules Feiffer and Feiffer's Family Tree (10 folders), 2003, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes color slides of the intallation. Includes 3 CD-Rs of digital images and text panels.
Bella Landauer: Collector of Enterprise, 2003
Bella Landauer: Collector of Enterprise (5 folders), 2003, inclusive
Children at Risk: Protecting New York City's Youths, 2003
Recovery: The World Trade Center Recovery Operation at Fresh Kills, 2003
Home Sewn / Pins & Needles: Sewing Crafts & Trades in New York, 2003
Ann Zane Shanks: Behind the Lens, 2003
Petropolis: A Social History of Urban Animal Companions (7 of 10 folders), 2003
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the research files.
Petropolis: A Social History of Urban Animal Companions (3 of 10 folders), 2003
If Elected: Campaigning for the Presidency / Campaigns on Cotton, 2004
Scope and Contents Note
Some documents for these election-themed exhibitions appear to have been carried forward to the files of a 2009 exhibition If Elected: the Game of American Politics; see those folders below.
From the Classroom to the World: Hine, Ulmann, Strand, Arbus, and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, 2004
Times Square Centennial, 2004
Radical Hospitality, 2004
Treasures (Rotations), circa 2004
Around Town Underground: The NYC Subway in Prints From the Collection of Reba & Dave Williams, 2004
Birds of Central Park: Audubon's Watercolors, 2003
The General Slocum and Little Germany (10 folders), 2004
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the research files of public historian Kathleen Hulser.
Tiffany Window Installation. Oversize, 2004
Scope and Contents Note
Includes material from designer Stephen Saitas concerning installation of The Good Shepherd window panels.
Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America (11 folders), 2004
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the Acoustiguide scripts and audio CDs for the both the adult and children's tours.
Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America, 2004, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes several loan files for the exhibition.
Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America. Oversize, 2004, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes 24 text boards from the exhibition.
American Revolution Digital Learning Project (Box 1 of 2), 2003-2005, inclusive
Scope and Contents
These two boxes holds records about the project and the objects included in the web-based database.
American Revolution Digital Learning Project (Box 2 of 2), 2003-2005, inclusive
Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River (3 folders), 2005
Hudson River Travel, 2005
Hudson River Rotations, 2006
Audubon's Aviary (2 folders), 2006
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the press kit for the exhibition, the second of a planned five part annual Audubon exhibition. The kit includes a CD of images.
Slavery in New York (11 folders), 2005
Scope and Contents Note
Includes comment books and CD of "selected media presentations."
Slavery in New York. Oversize, 2005, inclusive
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the guide to the exhibition, in the form of a copy of the Amsterdam News and the Design Development Record for "Slavery and the Making of New York" submitted by Krent/Paffett/Carney Iinc.
New York Divided: Slavery & The Civil War (8 folders), 2006
Scope and Contents Note
Many of the records refer to this exhibition as Slavery 2 or Slavery II. Includes publicity material with a CD and a comments book.
New York Divided: Slavery & The Civil War. Oversize, 2006
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the guide to the exhibition, in the form of a copy of the New York Post.
Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery (7 of 16 folders), 2006
Scope and Contents Note
Includes comments book and a 10 minute DVD of the installation.
Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery (9 of 16 folders), 2006
Finding Priscilla's Children: The Roots and Branches of Slavery (5 folders), 2006
Historical Fictions: Edward Lamson Henry's Paintings of the Past and Present (4 folders), 2006
Viktor Schreckengost's 100th Birthday, 2006
Gilded Age Sculptures (Lower Level), 2006
Scope and Contents Note
Includes CD of installation images.
Cafe Corridor, Lower Level, Checklist, 2006
Winter Wonderland (Lower Level), 2006
Suspicious Truths: Politics & the Press in American History, 2006
Group Dynamics: Family Portraits & Scenes of Everyday Life at N-YHS (4 folders), 2006
Scope and Contents Note
Includes CDs of images
Elegy in the Dust: September 11th and the Chelsea Jeans Memorial (6 folders), 2006
Here Is New York: Remembering 9/11 (6 folders), 2007
Scope and Contents Note
Includes comments book.
Zouaves (in Print Room Corridor), 2007
Carry Me Home: Dispatches from the Civil War, 2007
The Confectionary States of America, 2007
Scope and Contents Note
Also referred to simply as "Sugar," this was a self-guided tour through the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture.
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape (5 folders), 2007
Scope and Contents Note
These files appear to relate to outgoing loans for an exhibition at other institutions. Nonetheless, there may be documents here related to the Durand exhibition held at N-YHS around the same time (see next entry).
The World of Asher B. Durand: The Artist in Antebellum New York (3 folders), 2007
Scope and Contents Note
See also the previous entry for the Kindred Spirits exhibition.
Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure (7 folders), 2007
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the press kit with CDs of images.
Audubon's Aviary: Natural Selection, 2007
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the press kit for the third of a five part annual Audubon exhibition.
John B. Snook: Architect of New York's Downtown Streetscape, 2007
A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll & the Tiffany Girls (23 of 52 folders), 2007
Scope and Contents Note
Includes CDs of images and audio soundtracks, and comment books. Includes extensive files on the traveling aspect of the exhibition, especially in the following two boxes.
A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll & the Tiffany Girls (22 of 52 folders), 2007
A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll & the Tiffany Girls (7 of 52 folders), 2007
French Founding Father: Lafayette's Return to America (11 of 71 folders), 2007
French Founding Father: Lafayette's Return to America (21 of 71 folders), 2007
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a DVD of Lafayette: The Lost Hero. Dated May 21, 2009, with a TRT of 1:24:00,this is a "rough cut," presumably of the PBS show of the same name released in 2010.
French Founding Father: Lafayette's Return to America (39 of 71 folders), 2007
Nation at the Crossroads: New York Debates the Constitution (3 folders), 2008
Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors & Drawings at N-YHS (13 folders), 2008
If Elected: The Game of American Politics (4 folders), 2004, 2008
Scope and Contents Note
The files also include documents from an earlier (2004) election-themed exhibition Campaigns on Cotton.
Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors (10 folders), 2008
Allure of the East: Orientalism in New York (3 folders), 2008
Victor Prevost: Early Photographer of New York, 2008
Plague in Gotham / Cholera 1832, 2008
Audubon's Aviary: Portraits of Endangered Species, 2008
Scope and Contents Note
Includes publicity material with a CD.
A New President Takes Command: FDR's First Hundred Days (3 folders), 2008
Scope and Contents Note
Includes CDs with object images.
Grant and Lee in War and Peace (18 folders), 2008
Scope and Contents Note
Includes CDs of publicity material and a teen audio tour.
FDR's Brain Trust and the Beginning of the New Deal, 2009
Landmarks of New York (2 folders), 2009
Colonial Portraits, 2009
John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legacy (2 folders), 2009
Ariadne: The Great American Nude, 2009
Luce Rotations (Audubon), 2009
Taking the Oath: The First Presidential Inauguration, 2009
Intimate Lincoln / Low Light Lincoln, 2009
Dutch New York Between East & West: The World of Margrieta van Varick (3 folders), 2009
Lincoln and New York (17 of 29 folders), 2009
Lincoln and New York (12 of 29 folders), 2009
Lincoln and New York. Oversize, 2009
Scope and Contents Note
Includes two mounted posters and two mounted photographs of publicity signage.
Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin (15 folders), 2010
Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin. Oversize, 2010
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the exhibition poster, signed by N-YHS staff.
Nueva York (13 of 56 folders), 2010
Scope and Contents Note
Includes Marci Reaven's research notes, CDs of the gallery, a CD of a film by Steeplechase Films, and more.
Nueva York (14 of 56 folders), 2010
Nueva York (16 of 56 folders), 2010
Nueva York (13 of 56 folders), 2010
Nueva York. Oversize, 2010
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the Proclamation from the Council of the City of New York naming April 29, 2010, as New York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio Appreciation Day.
The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at N-YHS (10 folders), 2010
The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at N-YHS. Oversize, 2010
Scope and Contents Note
Includes one poster.
Exhibition ephemera, circa 2000s-2010s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The box includes miscellaneous ephemera, mostly related to exhibitions. Includes gallery texts, including large font texts, pamphlets, brochures, publicity packets, etc. There are several CDs with digital images and related material.
Great Hall Exhibition / New York Rising: New York and the Founding of the United States, 2011
Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn, 2011
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the Design Control Package (May 2011) and the invitation for the re-opening of the N-YHS galleries (November 2011)
Treasures of American Folk Art: Elie Nadelman, Pioneer Collector, 2011
Scope and Contents Note
Includes early concept papers for a possible exhibition.
Howard Thain, 2012
Scope and Contents Note
Includes only a CD labeled as having 4 selected scenes from "Tite (?) Crowd."
Smallpox, Vaccination & Civil Liberties in New York, 2012
Scope and Contents Note
Includes only a DVD of a video, possibly used in the exhibition.
Stories in Silver: Four Centuries of Silver in New York (9 folders), 2012
Scope and Contents Note
Includes CD of the audio tour and a "Smithers video," presumably used in the exhibition.
The Vietnam War: 1945-1975, 2017-2018, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes the 15 comment books from the exhibition, a 337 page unedited typescript of the comments, and the edited selections presented on-line at vietnamwar.nyhistory.org. (At present no other records about the exhibition have been transferred to the archives.)
Subseries II.B. Audubon Traveling Exhibition, 1984-1996
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes the records related to the 1990s traveling exhibition John James Audubon: The Watercolors for The Birds of America. The exhibition included about 100 of N-YHS's Audubon works and was the first time N-YHS had ever allowed the watercolors to travel. The exhibition venues were the National Gallery of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Detroit Institute of Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
The subseries includes the early planning documents for the exhibition and the files related to specific venues, including contractual agreements, object lists, designs, labels, shipping, publicity, insurance, funding, and other matters. Correspondence with venues that did not show the exhibition are included. Although planning for the exhibition began about 1990, the subseries also includes inquiries and other Audubon-related matter back to 1984 that was filed with the exhibition records. The subseries also includes photocopies of correspondence with American Heritage dating back to the 1960s, but this appears to be redundant of the originals in Series I. Select Collections Correspondence.
A companion volume was also produced: John James Audubon: The Watercolors for The Birds of America, edited by Annette Blaugrund and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and published by Villard Books in 1993. The subseries includes various files concerning the arrangements for the publication of this catalogue.
Arrangement Note
The subseries is roughly arranged by topic. Files related to specific venues are first, followed by more general exhibition planning and logistical files, object lists, funding, general correspondence, catalogue arrangements, and other product development.
Processing Information Note
The subseries was processed to a minimal extent by archivist Larry Weimer in October 2016. The material remains in its original folders.
One additional box of documents was transferred to the archives in 2019 and added to the finding aid in April 2021.
Planning Files (10 folders), 1992-1994
Planning Files (9 folders), 1992-1994
Planning Files (12 folders), 1990-1996
Planning Files (23 folders), 1992-1995
Planning Files (13 folders), 1986-1995
Planning Files (23 folders), 1990-1994
Planning Files (18 folders), 1984-1994
Scope and Contents Note
This box includes some 1980s general correspondence and 1980s exhibition material concerning the Audubon watercolors.
Planning Files (10 folders), 1990-1994
Planning Files (22 folders), 1987-1994
Planning Files (17 folders), 1991-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Also includes photocopies of correspondence with American Heritage from the 1960s-1980s.
Planning Files (17 folders), 1980s-1990s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes, among other documents, black and white photographs and color slides of the exhibition. This box of material was added to the finding aid in April 2021.
Planning Files. Oversize, 1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes two blueline drawings of gallery lay-outs, for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and for the Detroit Institute of Art.
Planning Files. Oversize, 1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the publicity poster for the exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Subseries II.C. Jack Rutland and Margaret Tamulonis Files, 1992-1998, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes files that appear to have come from Jack Rutland and Margaret Tamulonis. Rutland joined N-YHS in 1992 as Associate Registrar for Collections, later advancing to Director of Collections & Exhibitions and, in September 1996, to Director of the Museum. Tamulonis joined N-YHS in late 1993 as Collections Management Assistant, later advancing to Registrar responsibilities as Rutland advanced. Rutland and Tamulonis left N-YHS in the late 1990s. The files principally concern the planning for various exhibitions in the mid-1990s, especially Treasury of the Past (1995), 2 X Immortal: Elvis & Marilyn (1995), Scaasi: The Joy of Dressing Up (1996), and Becoming Eleanor Roosevelt: The Early New York Years (1995). The Scaasi fashion exhibition files have detailed dressing records, control records, dismantling records, and color photographs of the exhibited fashions and mannequins, in addition to the usual exhibition documentation. Rutland's files also include proposed exhibitions, general museum matters (e.g., research requests, object donation offers) and administrative files (e.g., budgets).
See also the Subseries of General Exhibition files because those include additional folders for some of the exhibitions found here.
Arrangement Note
The files are arranged in two sets, with Rutland's files first, followed by those of Tamulonis. Within each set, the more substantive exhibition files are presented first.
Processing Information Note
Portions of the Scaasi exhibition files were processed likely in the 2000s. The subseries as a whole was processed to a minimal extent by archivist Larry Weimer in October 2016. Most of the material remains in its original folders.
Jack Rutland Files, -
Exhibition at The Equitable Gallery (6 folders), 1992-1994
2 X Immortal: Elvis & Marilyn (4 folders), 1993-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Thematic titles to this exhibition also appear in the records as Creating Fame and Fame and Glory.
Treasury of the Past (17 of 21 folders), 1994-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files related to the exhibition of N-YHS collection highlights that was installed to mark the re-opening of the N-YHS galleries. "Treasures," "Treasury," and "N-YHS Treasures" are common shorthand names for the exhibition used in these and other files.
Treasury of the Past (4 of 21 folders), 1994-1995
Stonewall History Project (3 folders), 1992
Executive Mansion Exhibition, 1993
New York Foundling Hospital 125th Anniversary Exhibition (Proposed), 1994
Tiffany Gallery Refurbishing, 1994-1995
Negro Burial Ground. Crolius Pottery (Proposed Exhibition), 1994
Schedules of Exhibitions, 1994
China Birds Installation, 1994-1995
On the Avenue, Fifth Avenue (2 folders), [1995]
Luman Reed Gallery. Reinstallation, 1995
Siskind Portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy, 1995
Zelda: By Herself (Proposed Exhibition), 1995
Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture (Proposed Exhibition), 1995
Shaker Art, Life & Belief (Proposed Exhibition), 1995
Pocahontas, 1995
Wharton Costumes, 1995
Dexter Hall Renovation, 1995
Sony. Across the Sea of Time Benefit, 1995
Theater of History, 1995
Bard Retrospective (Proposed Exhibition), 1995
Brin Diaries, 1995
World War II, 1995
Maps, 1995
New York Academy of Medicine (Proposed Exhibition), 1995
Tenement Museum/Rabinowitz Material, 1995
Miscellaneous Proposed Exhibitions, 1995
Mike Wallace Exhibition Write-ups, 1995
New York: Then and Now: The Upper West Side (2 folders), 1995-1996
Steeplechase Films, 1995-1996
Wrought in Common Clay: New York Stoneware from N-YHS Collections, 1995-1996
The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted. Canadian Centre for Architecture (Proposed Exhibition), 1995
New York Etchings, 1996
Audubon Exhibition (Taking Flight) (3 folders), 1996-1997
Scope and Contents Note
Includes some documents related to the Audubon traveling exhibition of the mid-1990s.
Exhibition Summaries & Timeline, 1993-1995
Potential Exhibit with Parsons School of Design, 1995-1996
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides and associated inventory, presumably of proposed exhibition content.
Pending Exhibitions Status, 1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition proposals.
The History of New York Exhibition Planning Binder, 1995-1996
Budgets (5 folders), 1994-1998
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition and general museum budgets.
Proposal from the Department of Visitor Services, 1996
Incoming Research Requests (2 folders), 1994-1995
Purchase or Gift Offers (3 folders), 1995
John Rogers Sculpture Group Survey, 1993
Conservation Grants (3 folders), 1994-1995
Administrative Matters (12 folders), 1992-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes general staff memos, calendars, notes on signage and computerization, etc. Some memos concerning exhibitions are in these folders.
Margaret Tamulonis Files, -
Scaasi: The Joy of Dressing Up (15 of 42 folders), 1996-1997
Scaasi: The Joy of Dressing Up (15 of 42 folders), 1996-1997
Scaasi: The Joy of Dressing Up (3 of 42 folders), 1996-1997
Scaasi: The Joy of Dressing Up (9 of 42 folders), 1996-1997
Scaasi: The Joy of Dressing Up. Oversize, 1996
Scope and Contents Note
Includes two copies of the plan, elevation, and details.
Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York (4 folders), 1996
Becoming Eleanor Roosevelt: The Early New York Years (19 folders), 1995-1996
Staffordshire Exhibition, 1994
What A Crock! New York State Stoneware, 1994-1996
Clement Clarke Moore, 1995-1996
Then & Now: Upper West Side, 1996
Mormon Exhibition, 1997
Meyerowitz, 1996
Boltanski: Inventory, 1995
Perspectives on New York: Selections from the Map Collection, 1995
New York Celebrates the End of the War (WWII), 1995
Chappaqua Library, 1996
Hearts(?), Undated
A Stitch in Time, Undated
Arts & Antiques / 5th Ave. (Artists & Artisans of Early New York), 1996
Robert Fulton, 1996
Tiffany, 1995
Nieuw Amsterdam, 1996
Audubon, 1996-1997
Subseries II.D. Kimberly Orcutt Files, 1986-2012
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes files of Kimberly Orcutt, an Associate Curator of American Art at N-YHS circa 2005-2012. Much of the material in the subseries concerns Orcutt's work for the exhibition and catalogue John Rogers: American Stories (2012). In addition to planning documents and images (many in CD and DVD digital format), the files hold Orcutt's research sources and related photocopies for Rogers. Three other exhibitions are also represented in the subseries: Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure (2006), Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York (2012), and Young New York (2007), an exhibition at the Park Avenue Bank Gallery. The files also hold offers of objects for purchase or donation and incoming research inquiries.
Arrangement Note
The subseries is arranged in chronological order.
Processing Information Note
The subseries was processed to a minimal extent by archivist Larry Weimer in October 2016. The material remains in the original folders.
Offered for Gift or Purchase (2 folders), 2007-2008
Inquiries, 2006-2011
Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 2005-2007
Scope and Contents Note
Includes 3 CDs of uncertain content.
Ashcan Symposium, 2007
Park Avenue Bank Gallery / Young New York, 2006-2007
Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York (3 folders), 2010-2012
Scope and Contents Note
Includes 5 CDs of images and 1 CD of the NEA grant application.
John Rogers: American Stories (9 of 44 folders), 2006-2012
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of John Rogers: Household Gods installation. Includes 9 DVDs of videos and images, including of the installation of the exhibition at Palmer Museum of Art.
John Rogers: American Stories (17 of 44 folders), 1986-circa 2010
John Rogers: American Stories (10 of 44 folders), circa 2010
Scope and Contents Note
This box includes only photocopies of Rogers-related research material.
John Rogers: American Stories (8 of 44 folders), circa 2010
Scope and Contents Note
This box includes only photocopies of Rogers-related research material.
Series III. Curatorial and Administration Files, 1934-2016, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The Curatorial and Administration Files series includes records of the museum curatorial staff, principally Mary C. Black (1970-1982), Holly Hotchner (1989-1994), and Annette Blaugrund (1989-1995). The series also holds records of the museum staff's recommendations to the Board Museum Collections Committee. In large part, the files include correspondence concerning proposed exhibitions, general exhibition scheduling, research inquiries, offers of objects for accession, object surveys, and other museum matters. Hotchner's files, especially, also include conservation and general administration matters. Although the bulk of the files date from the 1980s to 1990s, there is a set of files from as early as 1939, the point in time when N-YHS first began to expand and professionalize its museum staff. These early files include accession notes, loan records, and other museum matters.
Arrangement Note
The series is organized in the following subseries:
Subseries III.A. General Files
Subseries III.B. Museum Collections Committee Files RESTRICTED
Subseries III.C. Mary Black Files
Subseries III.D. Holly Hotchner Files
Subseries III.E. Annette Blaugrund Files
Subseries III.F. Margaret (Margi) Hofer Files RESTRICTED
Subseries III.G. Various Curatorial Files
Access Restrictions
Portions of the series are restricted. See the Access Restrictions note at the subseries level.
Subseries III.A. General Files, 1934-1966, 1985-2001
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
This subseries includes files from the Museum Department that have a mix of subject matter and that seem to have been created over time by various staff members, or perhaps by a single but no longer identifiable staff member (i.e., of mixed or uncertain provenance). Additional materials will likely accrue to the subseries over time. As of 2016, there are two "sets" of records in the subseries, designated in the container list simply as "Set A" and "Set B."
Set A includes files that combine both registrar and curatorial matters. The bulk of these files span 1939-1949, dating from the earliest days when N-YHS expanded its museum professional staff. The principal contributors to these files appear to be Carolyn Scoon (Registrar and later Assistant Curator, ranging from the 1940s to about 1966) and H. Maxson Holloway (Curator during part of the 1940s). The date range of the files extends to the 1960s so correspondence to Director R.W.G. Vail and others do appear, in addition to Scoon. The correspondence primarily concerns offers of objects accepted and declined, inquiries regarding objects, loans to and from N-YHS for exhibitions, photograph permissions, and other object-related matters. The subseries includes extensive information about accessions in the form of correspondence, accession receipts, lists, appraisals, and acknowledgements. Library accessions are reflected in these records to a significant degree as well as those of the museum. Donors/correspondents are noted in the container list below when they are represented in a file by substantive documentation or lengthy object lists.
Set B includes more recent (1993-2002) files of inquiries and declined accession offers.
Arrangement Note
The subseries includes various sets of general files produced by the Museum Department over time and these are presented in roughly chronological order or in the order they were accessioned into the archives. The start of each discrete set is labeled in the container list as "Set A," "Set B," and so forth. The arrangement of each set varies, as follows:
Set A follows original order. This was alphabetical by correspondent, though some collection names, if different from the donor, were used to determine filing. Set A has a complete A-Z run that is followed by a second A-Z run. These have overlapping content and the second run simply appears to be additional related documents found at a later time.
Set B follows original order. This was chronological, with folders of correspondence for each month. At the end of the set are folders of declined offers, arranged alphabetically by the offering correspondent or object. Regardless of the fact that these particular files were segregated in the original files, correspondence concerning declined offers can also be found in the main run of Set B.
Processing Information Note
The Set A documents were processed likely in the 1990s. Set B was processed by archivist Larry Weimer in 2016 to a minimal extent; those documents remain in their original folders. The contents of both sets were described by Weimer in 2016 and integrated in a finding aid with other museum records.
Set 1, 193x-196x
Museum/Registrar Files. A, 1939-1965
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Arkenburgh, Arnold, Andre, Agnew, Ainslie, American Museum of Natural History (loan of Catlin paintings for N-YHS's 1941 exhibition), auction receipts from Gimbel's.
Museum/Registrar Files. B (2 folders), 1939-1956
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Blake, Belknap, Bennet, Beekman, Berry, Oscar Barck (Field Exploration), Boardman, Barlow, Brainard.
Museum/Registrar Files. Blair, Mrs. J. Insley (2 folders), 1934-1942
Museum/Registrar Files. C (2 folders), 1939-1949
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Cox, Connor, Cooper Union (loan for 1941 exhibition of textiles at N-YHS), Clement, Corell, Constant, Constantine.
Museum/Registrar Files. D, 1940-1960
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Dietrich, von Drehle, Dyer, Day.
Museum/Registrar Files. De Groot, Adelaide Milton, 1940-1947
Museum/Registrar Files. E, 1939-1953
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Erwin, Van Horne Ellis.
Museum/Registrar Files. F, 1939-1958
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: de Luze Foley, Stuyvesant Fish.
Museum/Registrar Files. G, 1939-1961
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Greenwood, Guernsey, Norvin Green, Richard Gosman estate, Gruver, Gilder.
Museum/Registrar Files. H (2 folders), 1939-1962
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Hand, Marian S. Hornor (loan of objects for N-YHS's 1942 St. Nicholas exhibition), Edgar C. Hyman Co., Havemeyer, Healy, Hirsch (loan of Benjamin West-related paintings by N-YHS to Allentown Art Museum), Hazen Hyde, Hudson River Line, Hanrick.
Museum/Registrar Files. I-J, 1939-1963
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Irwin, Jackson.
Museum/Registrar Files. L, 1939-1959
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Ellouise Baker Larsen, Landauer, Rita Lawrence.
Museum/Registrar Files. M-N (2 folders), 1939-1966
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Marwick, Macomber & Co. and other institutions/museums beginning with M (loan of textiles for N-YHS 1941 exhibition), Megrue, McKesson, Murphy, Newton, Catherine Mackie, Merritt, Abbie C. Miller, Mott.
Museum/Registrar Files. O-Q, 1939-1966
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Overton, Odell, Walter S. Poor, Prentis, F.E. Ogden (includes original photographs and descriptions of donated models of New York buildings), Beecher Ogden, O'Conor, Paltsits.
Museum/Registrar Files. R, 1939-1965
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Richards, Roudin, Root, Katherine Rogers, Francis Rogers, Rives.
Museum/Registrar Files. S-T (3 folders), 1939-1962
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Saint Nicholas Society, Turner, Taylor, Stahl & Sherwood (loan of objects for 1942 N-YHS New York Stage exhibition), list of silver stored in the vault at July 16, 1941, Ruth Ulmann Samuel, Sheean, Tomlinson Collection, Skillin, Schermerhorn, Sealy (Edward Wyer letterbook), Sherwood, Squier, Tinker, Tyler (Gallatin).
Museum/Registrar Files. U-V, 1939-1949
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Verplanck, Voorhies.
Museum/Registrar Files. W-Z (2 folders), 1939-1966
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Ziller, Zabriskie, Wheeler (Abeel kas, with original photograph), Garrett Winter, Louis C. Wills, Helen Wright, Wetherby, Whittemore.
Museum/Registrar Files. A, 1954-1957
Scope and Contents Note
Includes: Van Wyck Anthony, Douglas Anderson, Frederick B. Adams.
Museum/Registrar Files. B, 1948-1962
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Natalie K. Blair.
Museum/Registrar Files. Beekman, 1948-1958
Museum/Registrar Files. Belmont, 1955-1962
Museum/Registrar Files. C, 1935-1961
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Charles Halsey Clark, Carey, Chanler.
Museum/Registrar Files. D, 1950-1961
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Davis, Deavenport.
Museum/Registrar Files. Eberstadt, 1956
Museum/Registrar Files. E-G, 1948-1962
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: De Luze Foley, Ferguson, Stuyvesant Fish, Protestant Episcopal Church.
Museum/Registrar Files. Gallatin, 1951-1954
Museum/Registrar Files. H-K, 1934-1964
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Horn, Harbord, Jay, James Foundation, Haacker, Herrick, Irwin, Keppler, Kimball.
Museum/Registrar Files. Hanks, 1959-1963
Museum/Registrar Files. Hanna, 1950
Museum/Registrar Files. Havemeyer (3 folders), 1949-1961
Museum/Registrar Files. Kilroe, 1948-1950
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a booklet with original bookplates and descriptions, 1905-1944.
Museum/Registrar Files. K, 1939-1967
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Enit Kaufman, R. Keith Kane.
Museum/Registrar Files. L, 1939-1961
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Landauer, Linsley.
Museum/Registrar Files. Livingston, 1950-1960
Museum/Registrar Files. Lockman, 1955-1958
Museum/Registrar Files. M-P, 1948-1961
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: McKim Mead & White, Paltsits, Hudson River Day Line (A.V.S. Olcott), McKay.
Museum/Registrar Files. Murdock, Undated
Museum/Registrar Files. Murphy (Prentis), 1953-1957
Museum/Registrar Files. Quistgaard, 1951-1965
Museum/Registrar Files. R, 1954-1961
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: Rockwell, Katherine R. Rogers, Rutledge.
Museum/Registrar Files. Ramage, 1947
Museum/Registrar Files. Stuart, 1944
Museum/Registrar Files. Townsend, 1959
Museum/Registrar Files. Vail, R.W.G., 1958-1960
Museum/Registrar Files. Varick Papers, 1960-1961
Museum/Registrar Files. Von Kienbusch, 1956-1960
Museum/Registrar Files. V-Z, 1948-1960
Scope and Contents Note
Includes, among others: G. Creighton Webb, Davenport West, Westervelt, Welch, Zabriskie.
Correspondence re: possible future gifts and bequests, 1948-1980, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with James C. Daily (1948), Anna Marvin (1962), Nellie Kingsland (1967), and others.
Set 2
Museum Correspondence (7 folders), 1992 June, 1993 February-1996 April
Museum Correspondence (5 folders), 1996 May-1997 June
Museum Correspondence (5 folders), 1997 July-1998 December
Museum Correspondence (5 folders), 1999 January-2000 May
Museum Correspondence (4 folders), 2000 July-2001 March
Museum Correspondence (4 folders), 2001 April-2002 May
Declined Offers (2 of 5 folders), 1995-2001
Declined Offers (3 of 5 folders), 1985-2001
Subseries III.B. Museum Collections Committee Files, 1977-2013, inclusive
Extent
Access Restrictions
N-YHS restricts Board of Trustee and Executive Office files for 50 years following the departure of a President and Chief Executive Officer. This subseries includes files related to Board and Board Committee matters, and so is restricted accordingly. Records from 1977-1982 (from the administraton of James Heslin) are restricted until 2033. Records from 1983-1988 (from the administration of James B. Bell) are restricted until 2039. Files holding the records of Bell's successors will be opened in subsequent years. While the restriction applies, these records may be used only by, or with the permission of, the President and Chief Executive Officer, the head of the Museum Department, or their designee.
Subseries III.C. Mary Black Files, 1940, 1968-1983
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes files maintained by and for Mary Childs Black (referred to as "MCB" in many of the documents), who was Curator of Painting, Sculpture and the Decorative Arts at N-YHS from 1970 through 1982. Black was an authority on American folk art. Prior to joining N-YHS, she had been the Director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York (1964-1970) and Director of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection at Williamsburg (late 1950s-1964).
Black's records primarily include two overlapping sets of files, one ordered by subject and the other ordered chronologically. The chronological files generally hold only correspondence and the topics include proposed and executed exhibitions, publication and other projects, research inquiries, professional exchanges, offers of objects for accession, and other museum professional matters. The subject files also hold correspondence concerning the same general and even particular matters, but also hold a broader range of documentation, such as photographs, research notes on artists and other topics, drafts of articles and other writings, etc. The container list includes a complete list of the subject files, using the original label headings. These first two sets were processed and described in 2016; in 2021, additional materials from Black's files were transferred to the archves and these were described broadlt at the box level and are found at the end of the container list.
It appears that many files related to specific exhibitions might have been removed from these records and boxed separately. For files of exhibitions during Black's tenure, at least many of which were surely from Black's office, see Series II. Exhibitions, Subseries A. General Files.
Although the bulk of the material dates from the years of Black's tenure at N-YHS, there is a set of 1940s correspondence between the United States Trust Company of New York and the Museum of the City of New York concerning the bequest of a Trumbull portrait to MCNY, subsequently renounced in favor of N-YHS (see the Trumbull subject file).
Arrangement Note
The subseries opens with the alphabetically arranged subject files followed by the chronological correspondence files. The subseries concludes with descriptions of content of boxes added to the finding aid in 2021.
Processing Information Note
Portions of the Mary Black files have been processed over time. It appears that many artist reference files, which are part of the subject files, were refoldered, likely in the 1990s. Minor processing appeared to have been done with other subject files. The chronological correspondence files were refoldered, likely in the early 2000s. In September 2016, archivist Larry Weimer made minor refinements in the arrangement, but principally focused on completing an inventory and description to integrate the files with the overall Museum Department record group. Little additional physical processing was done in 2016 so most of the subject files remain in their original folders.
Additional materials were transferred to the archives in 2018-19 and added to the finding aid in 2021 by Larry Weimer. These largely remain as received from the museum with no further processing.
A. General, 1976-1979
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Williamsburg, 1978-1982
Abigail Adams Smith Museum, 1981
Abrams, Harry N., Inc., 1977
Acknowledgements of Books, Catalogs, Etc., 1981
Paintings, Furniture, Etc. in Storage, Paterson, NJ, 1969-1970
Albany Institute of History & Art, 1976-1982
Alland Collection (Bracklow Photographs), 1981-1982
American Antiquarian Society, 1970s
American Art & Antiques, 1979
American Craft Museum, 1981
American Indian Relations, New York, 18th Century, Undated
American Society of Interior Decorators (Designers), 1980-1981
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1978
Amerika Haus Berlin, 1976-1977
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972-1982
Andrews, Faith (Mrs. Edward Deming), 1980-1981
Annual Report, 1972-1975
Antiques World, 1981-1982
Architectural Renderings, 1980
Archives Reference & Research Advisory Board (New York City), 1981
Aron, Bill (Photographer), 1978
Art on the Road, 1980
Art Commission (New York City), 1980-1981
Art Institute of Chicago, 1981
Associate Curator. Job Description, 1981
Association of Historians of American Art, 1981
Astoria Motion Picture & Television Foundation, 1981-1982
Audio-Visual & Films, 1975-1977
B. General, 1971-1979
Bank of New York, 1979
Beard, Rick, 1980-1981
Belmont (That Belmont Look), 1981
Bailey, Rosalie Fellows, 1979-1981
Bemis, William Otis. Biography, 1970s
Bicentennial, 1972-1973
Bicentennial Information Network (BINET), 1974
Black, Mary Childs, 1974-1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes miscellaneous memos, file inventory, a biographical sketch, and other documents.
Black Watch (Commander Force), 1979
Blackburn, Roderic, 1974
Boscobel Restoration, 1979
Bradford Manuscript Exhibition, 1977
Breaking Ground Exhibition, 1981-1982
Bridges, Charles, 1981
Brighton Beach Project, 1976
Brochures, 1973
Brodsky. Gotham Medley, 1982
Brooklyn Bridge, Modern Photographers Look At, 1981-1983
Brown, O.J. (artist), 1977
Bryan Collection. Sale (2 folders), 1978-1979
Bundy, Horace, 1971
Burton, Charles (artist), 1979
C. General, 1971-1980
Cabinetmaker (New York) and His Use of Space Exhibition, 1975-1976
Calyo, Nicolino (artist), 1978-1981
Caplan, Frank & Theresa (Creative Playthings) / Institute & Museum of Fantasy & Play, 1978-1982
Carriage Collection, 1977
Central Park, 1977
Scope and Contents Note
Includes offer by Hirschl & Adler Galleries of oil painting by Richards.
Chambers, Thomas (artist), 1979-1980
Chambers, Winthrop (artist), 1980
Channel 13, 1977-1980
Childs Gallery, 1978-1982
Christmas Museum Proposal, 1978
Cole, Lyman Emerson, 1971
Cole, Thomas (artist), 1979-1981
Complaint Letters re: Exhibitions, 1981
Computers & Word Processing. Museum, 1982
Conservation, N-YHS, 1981
Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, 1976-1977
Crafft, R.B. (artist), 1971
Crawford, Joyce, 1981
Crawford, Thomas (artist), 1981
D. General, 1976-1980
Damages, Insurance, 1970
Decker, Malcolm, 1975
Delanoy (artist), 1980-1981
Denby, Mrs. William, 1976-1977
DePeyster Limner, 1971
Dexter Hall, 1968-1973
Dover Publications, 1971-1977
Draper, Ruth (accession sheets), 1977
Dunn, Malcolm (appraiser), 1982
Durand, Asher B. (artist), 1976-1980
Durand, John (artist), 1980-1981
Duyckincks (4 folders), 1973-1981
E. General, 1979
Eagles, 1970s
Earle, Ralph (artist), 1977-1980
Eastern Mass. Artist, 1982
Edson, Almira, 1982
Education, 1970-1973
1890 House, 1977
English Folk Art, 1978
Entrance Fees, 1980
Erastus Salisbury Field Exhibition, 1981-1982
European Painting, 1972
Evaluations from Museum Workshop Program's Exhibition Workshop, 1978
Exhibition Files (schedules, plans, proposals, etc.) (8 folders), 1973-1982
F. General, 1973-1979
Farancz, Alan (Paintings Restorer), 1970s
Field, Erastus Salisbury, 1970-1978
Film Project, Historic New York, Hudson River Film Co., 1980
Fisher / Fitch, 1981
Flint Institute of Arts, 1976
Folk Art (3 folders), 1971-1982
Foote, Mary (artist), 1973-1974
Francis, Undated
Freake Limner, Undated
Freenan, George (artist), 1981
Frost, J.O.J (artist), 1971
Frymire, Jacob (artist), 1982
G. General, 1972-1979
Gallery Association of New York State, 1977-1980
Gallery at the Old Post Office, 1982
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns Manhattan Observed and Breaking Ground exhibitions.
Gershinowitz, George, 1982
Gifford, Sanford Robinson, 1981
Gift/Donation Refusals, 1980-1981
Gill, Jill (2 folders), 1975-1981
Glass Files, 1976-1977
Goelet List, Undated
Gracie Mansion (3 folders), 1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes Black's edited typescript for her "Gracie Mansion: A History of the Mayor's House" and related matter.
Gracie Mansion (4 folders), circa 1977-1981, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes, among other documents, blueprints of the preliminary plans for Gracie Mansion prepared by William C. Shopsin
Greeley & Forest Forgeries. Research, Undated
Greenleaf, Benjamin (artist), 1981
Greitzer, Carol (councilwoman), 1981
Guy, Francis, 1981
H. General, 1971-1979
Hartwell / Haspel (artists), Undated
Heaton, John, 1972-1980
Herot, George (artist), 1975
Herring, James (artist), 1975
Hicks, Edward, 1970-1980
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1979-1982
Hoelzer, Hiram (restorer), 1974
Holsapple / Hopkins / Hovey, 1981
Holt, Henry, 1978-1982
Horton, Carolyn (restorer), 1978
Hudson Valley Dutch Museum Survey, 1982
Hudson Valley Studies, 1977
Huntington, Daniel, 1970
Hyde de Neuville, Baroness, 1972-1977
I. General, 1976-1979
Iconography, 1979
Importance of Being Hyphenated, 1981
Insley, Albert, 1982
Interior Design Fair New York City, 1979
Internal Revenue Service, 1981-1982
International Celebration of Art, 1981
International Center for Photography, 1978
International Exhibitions Foundation, 1982
Interoffice Memos, 1976-1977
Inventories. N-YHS Manuscript Collection, Undated
J. General, 1980-1981
Jarvis, John Wesley, 1981
John Judkin Memorial, 1978-1981
Justus Dalee, 1974
K. General, 1973-1978
K and L. General, 1978-1979
L. General, 1979-1983
Kaplan Fund (2 folders), 1979-1982
Kern, Arthur, 1979-1982
Kilburn, Lawrence, 1981
Kindig, Paul E. / Pennsylvania Butter Prints, 1982
Kingston, NY, History of, 1974
Knickerbocker Birthday, 1979
Landscape Catalog, 1971-1982
Lesueur, 1974
Lewis, Jerry (Federal Hall Chairs), 1982
Lighting Fixtures. Case, 3rd Floor West Corridor, Undated
Limners of the Upper Hudson, 1968-1978
Love Galleries, 1982
Lynes, Russell, 1981
Lyons, Louis and Paul Hollister (Glass), 1977
M. General, 1978-1979
Maentel, Jacob (2 folders), 1971-1980
Magriel, Paul, 1980
Manhattan Now (Manhattan Observed), 1981
Marling, Jacob, 1977
Minnigerode, Marietta (artist), 1980
Movers (Global), 1977
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 1981
MTA Bus Ex. / Dover Book, 1982
MTA. N-YHS Station, 1979
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1978-1982
Museum of American Folk Art, 1971-1972
Museum of the City of New York, 1979
N. General, 1976-1980
National Gallery of Art, 1979-1982
National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1982
Nehemiah Partridge Exhibition, 1982
New York City Buildings Records Collection, Planning Committee, 1979
New York City Heath & Hospitals Exhibition, 1981
New York Gallery of the Fine Arts (document photoreproductions), Undated
N-YHS. Membership, 1981
N-YHS. Museum (7 folders), 1970s-1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files on budgets (1980s), lighting, facilities, Museum Committee (1980), and other matters.
N-YHS. Publications (2 folders), 1973-1980
New York in Aerial Views, 1980-1981
New York Nostalgia, 1973
New York State Education Dept., 1981
New York Street Furniture, 1982?
Newtown Bee, 1977-1982
19th Century American Paintings Exhibition, 1981
Of the Land's Bounty, Undated
Other Historical Societies, 1970-1976
P. General, 1978-1982
Pace College, 1976-1981
Painter's Materials, 1970
Paintings. Artist Identified, 1970-1976
Paperweights. Book (Hollister) and Exhibition (2 folders), 1971-1977
Partridge, Nehemiah, 1971-1980
Patroon / Paul, 1979
Paul Stewart, 1979
Pavesi, Rudy, 1980-1981
The Peales, 1971-1979
Peck, Sheldon, 1976-1981
Peckham, Robert, 1979-1981
Penniman, John Ritto, 1981
Pennington, Samuel, 1982
Phillips, Ammi (2 folders), 1972-1982
Photographer. David Anderson, 1981
Photographer. Bill Aron, 1978-1980
Pierrepont Limner / Pollard Limner, 1977-1981
Pinney, Eunice, 1971
Pintard Fellows, 1970-1973
Pintard Genealogy, Undated
Pintard Prospects, 1970-1972
Pitigliani, Letizia, 1976-1979
Piwonka, Ruth, 1982
Portrait Catalog, 1970s
Portraits. Artist Unknown (2 folders), 1970-1977
Powers, Asahel, 1980
Prevost, Victor, 1975
Prentis Rooms, 1979
Prior, William Mathew, 1973-1981
Public Relations / Carole Sorell Inc, 1980-1981
Publicity, 1970-1974
Publishing Center for Cultural Resources, 1976-1981
R. General, 1976-1980
Radovanovitch, Georges, Undated
Rapalje / Reiss, 1980
Redecoration of N-YHS, 1972-1973
Reproduction Program, 1976
Reynolda House, 1978
Rice Mansion, 1979
Rifkind, Carole, 1979
Riordan, Marguerite, 1982
River, Bowery, Mill & Beaver, 1973-1976
Rockefeller, Rodman (IBEC), 1979-1982
Rogers, John, 1970-1981
Rosenthal, Odeda, 1980-1982
Ross (Arthur) Foundation, 1981-1982
Ruder & Finn Fine Arts, 1981
S. General, 1976-1982
Salmagundi Club, 1970s
San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, 1981
Sandak Interest, Undated
Sandburg, Carl, 1978
Savage, A.J., 1982
Sawitsky, 1981
Scrimshaw, 1976
Sculpture, 1980
Seaman (artist), 1972
Seminars, 1970-1976
Senate House State Historical Society, 1981
Sessions, Ralph D., 1981
Sharples / Sheffield, 1978-1982
Shelburne Museum, 1981
Ship at South Street, 1982
Shute (artist), 1977
Sinclair Glass, 1975
Sleepy Hollow Restoration, 1981
Smibert / Smillie / Steward, 1981
Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1981
Society of Illustrators, 1981
Society's Sculpture, Undated
South Street Seaport Museum, 1971-1980
Speedwell Village, 1978
St. Marks Church in the Bowery (Oral History), 1981
Staff Meetings, 1970s
Stained Glass, 1981
Staten Island Historical Society, 1980
Stewart, Mrs. William Rhinelander, 1976
Stock, Joseph (3 folders), 1974-1979
Stoneware Jugs in 3rd Floor Corridor, Undated
Storage, 1981
Strawberry Festival, 1978
Sturbridge Limner, 1977
Suppliers to Museums, Undated
Sweetwater Editions, Undated
Synagogue Survey, New York City, 1980
T. General, 1982
Ten Eyck / Thompson, 1977
Terra Museum of American Art, 1981-1982
Textiles, 1971-1982
Tiffany Conservation Project, 1980
Toys, 1973
George Brown Toy Sketchbook, 1971
Trenton High Falls, 1972
Tri-Delta Charity Antiques Show, 1979
Trumbull, John, 1940, 1975-1981
Scope and Contents Note
Includes 1940s correspondence between the United States Trust Company of New York and the Museum of the City of New York concerning the bequest of a Trumbull portrait to MCNY, subsequently renounced in favor of N-YHS.
Tuthill, Abraham / Tuttle, 1977-1981
Twentieth Century Painting, 1975
Ukrainian Museum, 1977
University of Chicago Press, 1980
V and W. General, 1977-1981
Van Dyck / Van Name, 1981
Van Rensselaer Limner, 1974-1975
Vanderlyn, John, 1971-1974
Vanderlyn, Pieter, 1980-1981
Vanderlyn, Peter. Research, 1971-1976
Vandervere, 1979
Velvet Limner, 1981
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1979-1982
Vose Galleries of Boston, 1978-1982
Wall / Ware, 1980
Washington, George. Portraits, 1979
Waterfront / Stephanie Hollyman Tugboats, 1980
Watherston, Margaret (conservator), 1972-1982
Watson, John. Article (3 folders), circa 1979
West Point, 1981
Wetherbee, Isaac / Wiggin, 1981
Whitney Museum / "Three Centuries of American F. Painters", 1978
Williams, Micah & William, 1971-1974
Wigmore Fine Arts, 1981
Willson, Mary Ann (artist), Undated
Wiltshire / Young / Wilks, 1981
Winiker, Barry M., 1981-1983
Wollaston, John, 1976
Correspondence (4 folders), 1970-1972
Correspondence (11 folders), 1973-1977
Correspondence (10 folders), 1977-1981
Correspondence (8 folders), 1981-1982
Grant and other funding files, 1970s-circa 1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This box of grant and other funding-related files was transferred to the archives in 2019 and added to the finding aid in 2021. It includes both accepted and rejected grant applications for exhibitions (especially Audubon and His World) and conservation and storage. Among the organizations noted are NEA, NEH, Municipal Art Society, New York State Council on the Arts, and Institute of Museum Services.
Various exhibition and other files, 1970s-circa 1984, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This box of, primarily, exhibition-related files was transferred to the archives in 2018-19 and added to the finding aid in 2021. Exhibitions with substantive material in the files include "Remember the Ladies" (includes, among other documents, the final blueprint of the exhibition floor plan); "Oom Pah Pah"; and "Moving in the City". There are also files on "Miniatures & Medals," "Paint and Pattern in Rural Pennsylvania," and Bracklow photographs. There are also files on a Hudson Valley Dutch museum survey; damage done to 9 paintings in 1980; the Museum Council of New York; and Municipal Art Society. Some of these files may not have been Mary Black's, but date from her tenure in the museum. Two files relate to a period shortly after her departure: a file of photographs related to the "A Pageant of Heraldry in Britain and America" (circa 1984) and 1983-84 files related to planning for a 1986 Calyo exhibition.
Various exhibition and other files, 1970s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This box of exhibition-related files was transferred to the archives in 2018-19 and added to the finding aid in 2021. Includes files on three exhibitions: Gracie Mansion (includes the proposed site plan by Smotrich & Platt, et al. of the renovation for the Gracie Mansion Conservancy); "Audubon and His World" (including drawings of the space study for Dexter Hall); "Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish Life in New York." It also includes a file of various documents relating to early 1970s planning for various bicentennial observances.
Subseries III.D. Holly Hotchner Files, 1970-1994
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes, at least primarily, the files of Holly Hotchner. (Some files of other museum personnel, including former curator Ella Foshay (1984-1989), were likely mixed in with these when stored.) These represent the range of Hotchner's activities from her early years in conservation to her later years as Museum Director. The files range from general conservation matters, storage and warehousing, object surveys and inventories, some exhibition and special event planning, and professional activities. Particular initiatives that are well-represented in the subseries include the licensing arrangements with Birchrun Mint to reproduce one of the Rogers groups, "Weighing the Baby", conservation of the Louis XVI chair, planning for new storage at Crozier Warehouse in 1990, and arrangements for the Thomas Cole: Landscape into History and Equitable Gallery exhibitions. There are many files related to outgoing loans, though these may simply be additional files that were inadvertently separated from the bulk of loan files found in Series IV. Collection Management Files. Fuller summaries of the content are provided in the container list below. Certain files related to Hotchner's activities as Museum Director during the 1990s are currently restricted. See the Access Restrictions note.
Arrangement Note
The subseries is arranged by general subject categories. The categories were defined by the processing archivist in order to simplify and summarize the presentation of the many individual folders in the subseries. The archivist developed the categories based on observation of the relationship of groups of folders within the original storage boxes. Although the archivist did make some adjustments to their arrangement, in large part the folders found together remain that way.
Biographical/Historical Note
Holly Hotchner joined N-YHS in 1984 to play a leadership role in the conservation initiatives of the Museum Department. The mid-1980s to early 1990s were a turbulent time in N-YHS's history and Hotchner's scope of responsibility gradually expanded, formally and informally, over this period. By 1989, with the departure of museum curator Ella Foshay (1984-1989), Hotchner was promoted from Chief Conservator to Museum Director. At the same time, the Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architecture (the Print Room) was transferred from the Library to the Museum, where it would remain organizationally until 1998. The Security Department was also transferred to Hotchner's leadership at this time. As Museum Director and a member of the senior management team in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hotchner was closely involved with N-YHS's facilities and fiscal planning, the effort to broaden the museum's professional staff, and the initiative to refine the institution's collections policy and the associated deaccessioning process. By mid-1993, at the height of N-YHS's fiscal crisis and as a result of large numbers of staff lay-offs, resignations, and other departures, only Hotchner remained as the senior level executive at N-YHS. Her role narrowed in early 1994 as N-YHS Co-Chair "Pug" Winokur took over responsibility for the Museum while Hotchner focused on the deaccessioning initiative of the time and the planning of certain major exhibitions. Later In 1994 Hotchner also left N-YHS.
Access Restrictions
N-YHS restricts Board of Trustee and Executive Office files for 50 years following the departure of a President and Chief Executive Officer. This subseries includes some files related to Board and Board Committee matters, and those files are restricted accordingly. Specifically, the files date primarily from the administration of Barbara Knowles Debs and the interim leaders that followed her (1988-1994) and so they are restricted until 2044. While the restriction applies, those files may be used only by, or with the permission of, the President and Chief Executive Officer, the head of the Museum Department, or their designee.
Processing Information Note
The subseries was processed in September 2016 by archivist Larry Weimer. The material was arranged and described, but the physical processing of individual folders was done to only a minimal extent; specifically, the documents remain in their original folders.
Conservation. General (32 folders), 1970, 1983-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes general conservation matters, including budgets (1984-90), conservation studio opening announcements, summary of interns, job position advertisements, environmental/climate control/lighting, and some general damage assessments.
Conservation. General (6 folders), 1985-1991, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes conservation specifications for window replacement (1989), climate report/survey (1991), and conservation studio reports and construction bids (1980s).
Paintings, Frames, Drawings, Miniatures (7 of 32 folders), 1981-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files concerning condition surveys, priorities, appraisals, inquiries, and other such matters. Specific collections noted include: Abrams Portfolio, T.J. Bryan, City of Plainfield Bierstadt paintings, Thomas William Channing Moore, Mary Stuart, Nora Durand Woodman, landscape and genre paintings (R.G. Wunderlich appraisal of 1984), miniatures, and Luman Reed frames.
Paintings, Frames, Drawings, Miniatures (21 of 32 folders), 1981-1994
Paintings, Frames, Drawings, Miniatures (4 of 32 folders), 1981-1994
Sculpture. General (3 folders), 1990-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Principally concerns a conservation survey and assessment.
Sculpture. Birchrun Mint License (4 folders), 1989-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns reproduction rights for "Weighing the Baby" from the Rogers Group.
Prints, Photographs, & Architectural (11 folders), 1979-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files on conservation, surveys, general descriptions, inquiries, consideration of transferring the Print Room collections from the museum to the library, and other such matters. Specific collections referred to include: James H. Hyde, Ferdinand Ogden, Cass Gilbert, McComb, Landauer, and McKim Mead & White.
Decorative Arts (16 of 35 folders), 1975-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files concerning surveys, descriptions, appraisals, and conservation of furniture, carriages, silver, and Tiffany glass. Several of the files concern the Louis XVI side chair (1817.13). Other specific objects include the Duncan Phyfe tool chest, the Connecticut House facade (from Prentis-Murphy), the Steinway Hose carriage, and DePeyster, Beekman, Nadelman, and LeBoeuf collections. An oversize plan was removed from a folder into an oversize box noted below.
Decorative Arts. Oversize, 1985
Scope and Contents Note
Includes an oversize plan of the Phyfe tool chest by Carlyle Lynch.
Storage & Warehousing (9 of 44 folders), 1983-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files concerning the planning for the transfer of objects (principally paintings and decorative art) stored at Central Park West and off-site to a new offsite location (Crozier Fine Arts, Inc. on West 20th Street) in 1990. Includes storage and floor plan blueline drawings by architects Allan Greenberg and Richard Jansen. Oversize plans were removed from folders into an oversize drawer noted below.
Storage & Warehousing (30 of 44 folders), 1983-1993
Storage & Warehousing (5 of 44 folders), 1983-1993
Storage & Warehousing. Oversize, 1989-1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes oversize storage and shelving plans removed from the above files.
Museum Design/Facilities (8 folders), 1989-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files related to redesigning some of N-YHS's exhibition space, including files on architects Allan Greenberg and Richard Jansen, and lighting consultant George Sexton. See also New-York Historical Society (NYHS-RG 4) for much more on N-YHS's planned renovations during this period.
Museum Design/Facilities. Oversize, 1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes an oversize plan by Richard Jansen of the 3rd floor corridor lay-out (i.e., West Hall offices).
Acquisitions (36 of 47 folders), 1985-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes folders concerning general policies and information about accessions and deaccessions, proposed gifts, bequests and other acquisitions (including rejected objects), and photoccopies of correspondence and other documents related to specific acquisitions of paintings, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, and photographs.
Acquisitions (11 of 47 folders), 1985-1994
Exhibitions. General (8 of 9 folders), 1985-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files of exhibition proposals (including a proposed touring exhibition of the Neustadt Tiffany collection in 1985), rejected proposals, schedules, and the like.
Exhibitions. General (1 of 9 folders), 1993-1994
Exhibitions. U.S. Constitution: Government by Choice, 1986
Exhibitions. Cased Images and Irving Browning, 1989
Exhibitions. Tiffany, 1988-1990
Exhibitions. Audubon (6 folders), 1980-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes materials related to various Audubon exhibitions and proposed exhibitions.
Exhibitions. Tenth Street Studio; Portrait Gallery, 1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes an overall description of the proposed Tenth Street exhibition and label text for the Portrait Gallery.
Exhibitions. Collection Re-Installation, 1992-1993
Exhibitions at Sony Corp., 1993
Exhibitions. Creating American Cultural Heroes, 1994
Exhibitions. 2 X Immortal: Elvis & Marilyn, 1994
Exhibitions. Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (16 folders), 1992-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence and agreements with the National Museum of American Art, funding proposals, press and other publicity materials, wall text, and other documents.
Exhibitions at The Equitable Gallery (9 folders), 1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence, draft agreements, press and other publicity materials, brochure text, and other documents related to the exhibition of N-YHS objects at The Equitable.
Loans (12 of 51 folders), 1985-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes some general files on policies and procedures related to N-YHS's outgoing loans of objects, and files on loans denied or withdrawn during N-YHS's fiscal crisis. The following box has files related to specific loans, some for extended periods and others for specific timebound exhibitions. These files were likely inadvertently separated from other loan files that were integrated into Series IV. Collection Management Files, Subseries B. Outgoing Loans.
Loans (39 of 51 folders), 1985-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Among others, the files include loans to Brooklyn Museum, Waterloo Village, War Memorial Museum of Virginia, Museums at Stony Brook, Owen Thomas Museum, New York Law Institute, Chesterwood, Department of the Navy (includes photographs of USS Monitor (1862.9) and Tingey uniform (1932.221), Monticello, Gracie Mansion, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Baltimore Museum of Art, Colonial Williamsburg, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Hudson River Museum, Jordan-Volpe Gallery, National Academy of Design, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Audubon House, National Portrait Gallery, and Brandywine River Museum.
Public Programs & Collections Access (23 folders), 1986-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files concerning various public programs, including a slide show talk providing an overview of the collections (1986), publicity material for programs, summary lists, proposed visitor surveys, a study of visitor and member groups (1988), and a review of the use of museum collections and staff in education and research programs.
Special Events (13 folders), 1993-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files concerning private uses of N-YHS's facilities, including for filming such as Robert Redford's Quiz Show and TV's Law and Order, and for meetings of Community Advisory Board 7, the Alliance for the Arts, and Bard College's Decorative Arts program symposium. The files also reference film rights for material, including for Florentine Films' series The Civil War.
Professional Activities and Miscellaneous (9 of 37 folders), 1984-1994
Scope and Contents Note
These files include documents related to N-YHS's and Hotchner's professional affiliations, such as with the Association of American Museums and sponsoring student studies at N-YHS, and Hotchner's professional activities outside of N-YHS, particularly in terms of lectures on conservation. There are also a small number of files on subjects that did not fit clearly into other categories.
Professional Activities and Miscellaneous (28 of 37 folders), 1978-1994
Subseries III.E. Annette Blaugrund Files, 1989-1995
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes, at least in large part, the files of Annette Blaugrund, Senior Curator of Paintings, Drawing & Sculpture from 1989-1995. The files include correspondence concerning proposed exhibitions, research inquiries, offers of objects for accession, and other museum matters. The files also include object surveys, especially for sculpture, and general administration and exhibition planning documents. Fuller summaries of the content are provided in the container list below. Certain of Blaugrund's files are currently restricted. See the Access Restrictions note. A major initiative of Blaugrund's was the planning for an exhibition about the Tenth Street Studio Building. This subseries holds few or no files on the matter; the bulk of these were integrated at some point with other exhibition files. See Series II. Exhibitions, Subseries I. General Files, folders for Painting and Patronage: The Tenth Street Studios (1993).
Arrangement Note
The subseries is arranged by general subject categories. The categories were defined by the processing archivist in order to simplify and summarize the presentation of the many individual folders in the subseries. The archivist developed the categories based on observation of the relationship of groups of folders within the original storage boxes. Although the archivist did make some adjustments to their arrangement, in large part the folders found together remain that way.
Access Restrictions
N-YHS restricts Board of Trustee and Executive Office files for 50 years following the departure of a President and Chief Executive Officer. This subseries includes some files related to Board and Board Committee matters, and those files are restricted accordingly. Specifically, the files date primarily from the administration of Barbara Knowles Debs and the interim leaders that followed her (1988-1994) and so they are restricted until 2044. While the restriction applies, those files may be used only by, or with the permission of, the President and Chief Executive Officer, the head of the Museum Department, or their designee.
Processing Information Note
The subseries was processed in September 2016 by archivist Larry Weimer. The material was arranged and described, but the physical processing of individual folders was done to only a minimal extent; specifically, the documents remain in their original folders.
General Correspondence & Memos (7 of 17 folders), 1991-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence and memos concerning incoming research inquiries about objects and artists, exhibition proposals, offers of objects, and other museum matters.
General Correspondence & Memos (10 of 17 folders), 1989-1995
Administrative Files (4 folders), 1989-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files concerning visitor counts, intern tasks, filing system, a museum brochure reference material, and facilities information, especially lighting recommendations for the second floor corridor gallery.
Collections Policies (4 folders), 1990-1994
Exhibitions (7 of 11 folders), 1991-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files on proposed exhibitions and planning meeting and procedures. One file includes notes concerning the Treasury of the Past (1995) exhibition and another concerns a long-term loan to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
Exhibitions (4 of 11 folders), 1987-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files on the Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition and Rare Birds of China exhibitions, and a proposed Urban Gallery.
Research Sources (4 folders), circa 1991-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes notes and other documents identifying art research sources.
Object Descriptions & Inventories (11 of 13 folders), 1990-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Principally includes surveys and inventories of paintings and sculpture.
Object Descriptions & Inventories (2 of 13 folders), 1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a system-generated Sculpture Checklist as of April 15, 1993, by Ann Weissman.
Subseries III.G. Various Curatorial Files, 2002-2016, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
The subseries includes files transferred to the archives from the museum that were those of various curators, assistant/associate curators, contracted consulting curators, or others involved in developing exhibitions or shaping the collection scope and presentation. In many instances, the specific provenance of the files may not be clear and were included here because of the nature of the subject matter.
Arrangement
The files are loosely arranged and were generally retained as transferred to the archives.
Processing Information
The subseries was formed in 2021 in order to accommodate files transferred to the archives in 2017-2019 that could not be readily placed with the series structure established in 2016 when the bulk of the records were processed. These files were minimally processed and are generally described at the box level.
Exhibition curatorial working files, circa 1996-2004, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Primarily includes files from Mina Weiner, Jan Ramirez, Kathy Hulser, and Ellen Denker. Primarily concerns object lists, text, planning, programming, and the like for various exhibitions, including especially: Alexander Hamilton, Life on a Lapel, Family Matters, Jules Feiffer, Home Sewn, Bella Landauer: Collecting Enterprises, Revolutions, British in New York, the N-YHS Bicentennial in 2004. Includes some other planning documents, such as a Visible Storage Best Practices Analysis (1997).
Exhibition curatorial working files, 2002-2012, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Files transferred to the archives in 2017. These files are primarily from the office of Museum Director Linda Ferber and relate to various exhibitions. These include AIDS, Armory Show, Historical Fictions, Legacies, Lincoln & New York, Finding Priscilla's Children, Audubon's Aviary, Ashcan Painters, Atlantic Revolutions, Grant & Lee, Clarice Lee, New York Divided, and a few other smaller files.
Exhibition curatorial working files, 2009-2010, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes Marybeth de Filippis's file on "Dutch New York between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick (2009); binder and file on object conservation for the Great Hall (2010); binder of "100% Design Development with Exhibit Script and Exhibit Item Schedule" for the Dimenna Childen's Museum (2010); and proposals for a N-YHS web redesign by Mediatrope LLC and by Tronvig Group (2010).
Exhibition curatorial working files, 2008-2011, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes files on the Cholera and the Insulin exhibitions.
Exhibition curatorial working files, circa 2009-2016, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The box appears to hold exhibition-related files from Linda Ferber. Principal files concern: Coast & Sea, Making It Modern (Nadelman), Making American Taste, Beauty's Legacy, Clarice Smith, Swing Time (Reginald Marsh), and photographs of A New Light on Tiffany as exhibited at the Flagler Museum (2012).
Various curatorial files, circa 2012-2014, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a small set of Linda Ferber files, including those on the Hudson River School exhibition.
Series IV. Collection Management Files, 1929-2008, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The Collections Management series includes certain records of the Registrar and other records related to the administration of museum objects. The bulk of the series by far includes records of outgoing loans from N-YHS for exhibition or other display at other institutions; these loan records extend back to 1929. Though extensive, the loan records do not appear to include all outgoing loans.
The series includes some records of incoming loans for some of N-YHS's exhibitions of the 1940s and 1950s. (The bulk of incoming exhibition loan records are found in Series II, Exhibitions.) This series also holds accession lists and receipts for the 1950s-1960s.
The series also holds a few files from the 1980s-1990s covering the transport and warehousing of the collection at that time, as well as location mapping for the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, which opened in 2000.
Arrangement Note
The Collection Management series is organized in the following subseries:
Subseries IV.A. Early Registrar Files
Subseries IV.B. Outgoing Loans
Subseries IV.C. Albina De Meio and Related Files
Subseries IV.D. Luce Center Logistics
Subseries IV.E. Conservation Surveys & Other Files
Subseries IV.F. Incoming Loan and Other Exhibition-Related Files.
Subseries IV.G. General Collections Management Files
Subseries IV.A. Early Registrar Files, 1929-1965, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes files from the Museum Registrar, roughly from the early years of the museum's establishment as a department (circa 1939) to the 1960s. These were principally Carolyn Scoon (1942-1957),Theresa Czajkowska (1950-1957), and Dorothy Hull (1958-1961). The files include receipts for outgoing loans by N-YHS, including early (1929-1938) records of such loans. Incoming loan files, as well as the explicitly labeled files for exhibitions, document objects borrowed for exhibition at N-YHS in the 1940s-1950s. The series includes registrar receipts for other objects, such as those submitted for consideration for donation. Accessions and auction sales are documented in the working files for the annual reports and elsewhere in the subseries.
Arrangement Note
The subseries is arranged by subject matter and follows original order as found during processing in 2016.
Processing Information Note
The content of the subseries was physically processed, likely in the 1990s. The material was integrated with the Museum Department record group and description was developed in September 2016 by project archivist Larry Weimer.
Notes for Annual Reports, 1949-1962
Correspondence, 1950-1962
Draft Manual for Museum Registrars, 1954
Imaging Service Fees, 1953
Thompson Homestead Museum, East Hampton, L.I., 1942-1945
Material Sold, 1943-1948
Scope and Contents Note
Includes books and museum objects sent to auction.
Registrar Receipts (4 folders), 1956, 1960-1962
"Hall of Great Events", circa 1937
Evacuation List, 1941-1942
Miscellaneous Museum Accessions, etc., circa 1939-1950
Receipt Books #1 and #3 for Articles Given Out or Loaned by N-YHS, 1929-1933, 1936-1938
Loans by N-YHS (5 folders), 1954-1957
Loans by N-YHS (8 folders), 1957-1964
Loans by N-YHS, 1965
Indefinite Loans by N-YHS, 1945-1963
Loans to N-YHS (2 folders), 1952-1960
Indefinite Loans to N-YHS, 1939-1962
Deposted Temporarily, 1942-1956
Exhibition. Portraits of Americans by Americans, 1945
Exhibition. American Presentation Silver, 1946-1947
Exhibition. John James Audubon, 1946-1947
Exhibition. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West, 1947-1948
Exhibition. Children's Portraits, 1948-1949
Confederate Exhibition, 1949
Exhibition. George Harvey, 1948
Exhibition. Ezra Ames of Albany, Portrait Painter, 1955
Exhibition. John James Audubon, 1963
Subseries IV.B. Outgoing Loans, 1939, 1947, 1976-2005, inclusive; 1976-2002, bulk
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The Outgoing Loan Requests subseries of the New-York Historical Society museum records consists of files that were created within the Museum Department (likely by the registrar and associated staff) and chiefly relate to requests from outside institutions for loans of items from N-YHS's museum and library/print room collections for exhibition purposes. The date range for the series runs from 1975 to 2002.
The types of materials contained in the files include: internal and external correspondence such as memoranda and letters, facility reports, research material, loan agreements, receipts, insurance certificates, shipping invoices, and condition reports. Additionally, some files include photographic prints, slides, transparencies, and negatives of requested items, requesting facilities, or of damage to requested items incurred in connection with loans. Some files include exhibition checklists or catalogues. Files holding such images or print matter are noted in the container list below.
Together the materials document the considerations, process, and logistics underlying N-YHS's loan of particular objects, from initial request, review and recommendation by internal staff, final approval or rejection by the Board of Trustees, conservation work, insurance coverage, packing and shipment, and the resulting exhibitions and related publicity and press. More broadly, the files document the history of N-YHS's overall loan activities and the ways in which the collections have been called on in support of other institutions' exhibitions. Loans for purposes other than museum exhibitions are also documented, including long-term loans for display in government buildings.
The subseries includes files not only for loan requests that were satisfied, but also for those requests that were declined, withdrawn, or otherwise unfulfilled. Some rejections or rescissions of loan requests in 1988, 1993, and 1999 reflect loan moratoria due to larger events in N-YHS's history, including inventorying of collections, financial difficulties, and an anticipated move of collections related to the opening of the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, respectively.
Arrangement Note
The Outgoing Loan Requests subseries is arranged chronologically by year of file. Within each year's set of files, there are typically multiple types of files depending on the lending department, whether the request was fulfilled or not, and so forth. When multiple file types were contained within a year, the files were arranged with those having a loan number appearing first. These appear to be only museum objects and the number was likely assigned during input of object information to TMS, the Museum Department's inventory database. These loan files are arranged sequentially, though there are gaps in the numbering.
Following the files with loan numbers are those with no assigned loan number. These are arranged in the following order within a given year: long-term loans, museum loans, library loans, unfulfilled loans, loans of unknown resolution, and miscellaneous other types. Not all types are present in every year.
Although documents were transferred to archival folders during processing, when the original folders contained significant writing or annotation, they were retained with the documents. Folder titles were devised by the processing archivist based on the original folder labels, handwritten annotations on the folders, or folder contents. For satisfied loan requests, the name of the borrowing institution is the principal element noted in the file label. Files relating to loan requests that were denied or withdrawn were combined into "unfulfilled loan" files by year, with no further detail in the container list.
In some instances, the processing archivist found two or more folders relating to the same loan in the original files. These were likely the files of different museum staff (separate loan files maintained by the library staff are found with the library records) and so were generally merged, but materials were sleeved and original folders retained to indicate their separate origins. Materials found subsequent to processing the core of records were added to the container list in their proper order, but were not physically integrated; these files were instead placed in separate boxes appearing at the end of the subseries.
Processing Information Note
The Outgoing Loans subseries was processed by archival intern Katherine Palm in Spring 2016.
Long-term loan (1975): The Hispanic Society of America, 1981, 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns a long-term loan of St. John the Baptist by Castillo y Saavedra from 1975 to 1987.
OLR-1976.2. Jersey City Public Library Museum, 1976
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic print of the loaned object.
Library: High Museum of Art, 1976
OLR-1977.1. The American Federation of Arts, 1977
Library: Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, 1977
OLR-1978.1 Museum of American Folk Art, 1978
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1978.2. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian, 1978
OLR-1978.3. Old Dartmouth Historical Society Whaling Museum, 1978-1979
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1978.4. The Hudson River Museum, 1978
OLR-1978.5. Coe Kerr Gallery, 1978
OLR-1978.6. The Century Association, 1978
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic negative of the requested item(s).
OLR-1978.7. The Century Association, 1978
OLR-1978.8. The Albany Institute of History and Art, 1978
OLR-1978.9. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1977-1979
OLR-1978.10. High Museum of Art, 1977-1979
OLR-1978.11. The Corning Museum of Glass, 1977-1978
OLR-1978.12. Albany Institute of History and Art, 1972, 1978
Scope and Contents Note
Additionally includes a loan form for a 1972 loan of glass paperweights to the Albany Institute of History and Art.
Library: Beth Hatefutsoth, 1978
OLR-1979.1. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1978-1979
OLR-1979.2. The Hudson River Museum, 1979, 1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s). This folder additionally includes correspondence in 1982 regarding a loan of Asher B. Durand drawings and engravings.
OLR-1979.3. The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1979.4. American Museum of Natural History, 1979
OLR-1979.5. Amon Carter Museum, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1979.6. Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, 1978-1979
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1979.7. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1979.8. The Brooklyn Museum, 1979-1980
OLR-1979.9. Cragsmoor Free Library, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1979.12. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (3 folders), 1939-1947, 1978-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns a long-term loan of paintings from the Bryan Collection. Includes photographic prints and a color transparency of the requested item(s) and restoration reports from 1942 regarding paintings 1867.4 (B-4), 1867.6 (B-6), 1867.7 (B-7), and 1867.14 (B-14). Also included is correspondence with staff of the Rijksmuseum in 1939 and 1947 regarding identification of the subject of a painting (1867.182 (B-182)).
Museum: Bronx County Historical Society, 1979-1981
Unfulfilled loans, 1979, 1979
OLR-1980.2. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1980.3. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1980.4. University of New Hampshire, 1980-1981
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1980.5. National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, 1978-1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1980.6. Lyman Allyn Museum, 1980
OLR-1980.7. Meredith Long & Company, 1979-1980
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1980.8. Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1979-1980
OLR-1980.9. Albany Institute of History and Art (2 folders), 1980
OLR-1980.10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1980-1981
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s) and exhibition brochure.
OLR-1980.11. Bergdorf Goodman, 1980
Library: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1980
Library: New Jersey State Museum, 1980-1981
Unfulfilled loans, 1980, 1980
OLR-1981.1. Roberson Center for the Arts & Sciences, 1981
OLR-1981.2. Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1980-1981
OLR-1981.3. The Katonah Gallery, 1981-1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s) and exhibition catalogue.
OLR-1981.4. The Library of Congress, 1981
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1981.5. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981-1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a color transparency of the requested item(s).
OLR-1981.6. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library-Museum, 1981
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1981.7. Birmingham Museum of Art, 1980-1981
OLR-1981.8. The Heckscher Museum, 1981
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OL-R1981.9. Chanticleer Pottery, 1981
OLR-1981.10. Amon Carter Museum, 1980-1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1981.11. Albany Institute of History and Art, 1981, 1983
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1981.12. Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, 1981-1982
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s) and booklets associated with the exhibition.
OLR-1981.13. Citizen's Board Dinner, 1981
Scope and Contents Note
This folder was pulled for staff use and not returned.
OLR-1981.14. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1981
OLR-1981.15. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1981
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
Museum: Queens County Farm Museum, 1981
Museum: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1979-1981
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a color transparency of the requested item(s).
Museum: Yager Museum of Art and Culture, Hartwick College, 1981-2006
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns a long-term loan of 1818.1 Portrait of John Christopher Kunze, D.D. by John Wesley Jarvis from 1981 to 2006. Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
Unfulfilled loans, 1981, 1981
OLR-1982.1. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1981-1983
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1982.2. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1981
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1982.3. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1981-1982
OLR-1982.4. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1981-1983
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1982.5. Museum of the City of New York, 1981-1983
OLR-1982.6. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1981-1982
OLR-1982.7. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1982
OLR-1982.8. The Berkshire Museum, 1982
OLR-1982.9. Caswell-Massey Co. Ltd., 1982
OLR-1982.10. Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 1982
OLR-1982.11. Albany Institute of History and Art, 1982-1983
OLR-1982.12. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1982-1983
OLR-1982.13. Danforth Museum, 1982
Unfulfilled loans, 1982, 1982-1983
OLR-1983.1. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1982-1983
OLR-1983.2. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1983
OLR-1983.3. The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1982-1985
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the subsequent transfer of the object from Rhode Island direct to the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in 1984 for their China Trade exhibition.
OLR-1983.4. Museum of American Folk Art, 1982-1983
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1983.5. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1981-1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1983.6. Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1982-1983
OLR-1983.7. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, 1982-1984
OLR-1983.8. The Hudson River Museum, 1982-1983
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1983.9. The Hudson River Museum, 1982-1983
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of frame damage.
OLR-1983.10. Jefferson County Historical Society, 1982-1983
OLR-1983.11. Museum and Library of Maryland History, 1983-1984
OLR-1983.12. The Heckscher Museum, 1982-1983
OLR-1983.13. The Edith C. Blum Art Institute, The Bard College Center, 1982-1983
OLR-1983.15. The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1981-1983
OLR-1983.16. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1983-1984
OLR-1983.17. The Connecticut Historical Society, 1983-1984
OLR-1983.18. Cragsmoor Free Library, 1981-1984
OLR-1983.19. Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, 1982-1983
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
Unfulfilled loans, 1983, 1982-1983
OLR-1984.1. The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation, 1983-1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1984.2. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984
OLR-1984.3. Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 1984
OLR-1984.4. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (2 folders), 1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a polaroid photographic print of the requested items as exhibited.
OLR-1984.5. California State University, Long Beach, 1984-1985
OLR-1984.6. The Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1983-1984
OLR-1984.7. The Edward Hopper Landmark Preservation Foundation, 1984
OLR-1984.8. The Dog Museum of America, American Kennel Club Foundation, 1984-1985
OLR-1984.9. Daughters of the American Revolution Museum, 1984-1985
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a piece of label from the back of the frame of a painting from the N-YHS collections (The Schuyler Family by Ambrose Andrews) that was found in the wrappings of the painting upon receipt by the DAR Museum.
OLR-1984.10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1984.11. Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, 1984
OLR-1984.12. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1984
OLR-1984.13. University of Virginia Art Museum, 1984
OLR-1984.14. The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, 1983
OLR-1984.15. C. M. Russell Museum, 1984
OLR-1984.16. Hudson River Maritime Center, 1984-1991
Library: Art Commission of the City of New York, City Hall, 1984
Unfulfilled loans, 1984, 1982-1984
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1985.2. Columbus Museum of Art, 1984-1985
OLR-1985.3. Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, 1985
OLR-1985.4. Albany Institute of History and Art (Executive Mansion), 1984-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Loan was made for the purpose of display of paintings at the Governor's Executive Mansion in Albany, New York. Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s). Includes a brochure titled The Executive Mansion in Albany: A Century of New York History by Isabelle K. Savell (1982).
OLR-1985.5. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1985
OLR-1985.6. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1984-1985
OLR-1985.7. Plimoth Plantation, 1985
OLR-1985.8. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1985
OLR-1985.9. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984-1985
OLR-1985.10. The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, 1985
OLR-1985.11. Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, 1985
OLR-1985.12. The Brooklyn Museum, 1984-1985
OLR-1985.13. Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, 1985
OLR-1985.14. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1985
OLR-1985.15. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1984-1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of frame damage.
Museum: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, 1985
Library: The Grolier Club, 1985
Unfulfilled loans, 1985, 1983-1986
OLR-1986.1. The American Museum of Natural History, 1985-1987
OLR-1986.2. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1985-1986
OLR-1986.3. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1986-1987
OLR-1986.4. General Foods Collection, 1986-1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1986.5. Historical Society of Rockland County, 1985-1986
OLR-1986.6. The Hudson River Museum, 1984-1986
OLR-1986.7. Museum of American Folk Art, 1985-1988
OLR-1986.8. Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, 1986
OLR-1986.9. Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College (2 folders), 1986-1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1986.10. Museum of the City of New York, 1986-1987
OLR-1986.11. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1986-1990
OLR-1986.12. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1985-1987
OLR-1986.13. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1985-1986
OLR-1986.14. The Parrish Art Museum, 1985-1987
OLR-1986.15. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1985-1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s) showing a conservation issue.
OLR-1986.16. Staten Island Historical Society, 1986-1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes issue of the Staten Island Historian newsletter dedicated to the exhibition.
OLR-1986.17. University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, 1985-1986
OLR-1986.18. Tennessee State Museum, 1985-1987
OLR-1986.19. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986-1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
OLR-1986.20. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1985-1986
OLR-1986.21. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1985-1986
OLR-1986.22. The Hudson River Museum, 1985
OLR-1986.23. Albany Institute of History and Art (1 of 2), 1985-1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure and what appear to be N-YHS exhibit label(s).
OLR-1986.23. Albany Institute of History and Art (2 of 2), 1985-1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure and what appear to be N-YHS exhibit label(s).
OLR-1986.24. Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, 1985-1986
OLR-1986.25. The Magazine ANTIQUES, 1986
Library: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1986
Library: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1986
Library: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1985-1986
Library: Hopper House Art Center, 1986
Library: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1985-1986
Unfulfilled loans, 1986 (2 folders), 1984-1986
Scope and Contents Note
Includes color slides of a requested watercolor Perspective View Near Newport, Rhode Island (x.483).
OLR-1987.3. The Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian, 1986-1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1987.4. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1984-1987
OLR-1987.6. Delaware Art Museum, 1986-1987
OLR-1987.7. Huntington Galleries, 1986-1987
OLR-1987.8. International Exhibitions Foundation (1 of 2), 1986-1988
OLR-1987.8. International Exhibitions Foundation (2 of 2), 1986-1988
OLR-1987.9. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986-1988
OLR-1987.10. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1987
OLR-1987.11. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1986-1988
OLR-1987.12. National Museum of Science and Technology (Canada), 1987-1988
OLR-1987.13. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1986-1988
OLR-1987.14. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian (2 folders), 1985-1988
OLR-1987.15. The New York Public Library, 1987
OLR-1987.16. Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1986-1987
OLR-1987.17. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (2 folders), 1986-1989
OLR-1987.18. Gettysburg National Military Park, National Park Service (6 folders), 1986-2000
Scope and Contents Note
This set of folders contains documentation regarding the long-term loan, additional items loaned, conservation treatment, a theft of a cutlass (object 1925.103), an extension of the loan, and return of the loaned items. Includes photographic prints (some of which are polaroid) and color treatment slides of the requested item(s).
OLR-1987.19. The Navy Museum, Department of the Navy, 1984-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes Kodak instant film photographic prints of certain requested item(s)
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns a loan of Frederick Remington's Bronco Buster sculpture for the purpose of comparison.
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987-1988
Museum: Mottahedeh, 1987-1989
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns a reproduction arrangement with Mottahedeh with respect to reproduction of a piece of Staffordshire plate.
Library: Abigail Adams Smith Museum, 1987-1988
Library: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1987-1988
Library: Amon Carter Museum, 1986-1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
Library: Erasmus Hall High School and Academy of the Arts, 1986-1987
Library: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 1986-1987
Library: International Center of Photography, 1986
Library: Fort Stanwix National Monument, National Park Service, 1987
Library: Nippon Club, 1987-1988
Scope and Contents Note
includes a memorandum regarding a joint exhibition with the Nippon Club.
Library: South Street Seaport Museum, 1987-1988
Unfulfilled loans, 1987 (1 of 2), 1985-1987
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of certain requested item(s) and also photographic prints of a requesting institution's exhibition space.
Unfulfilled loans, 1987 (1 of 2), 1986-1988
Summaries of Loan Activity, 1986-1988, 1986-1988
OLR-1988.1. Amon Carter Museum, 1986-1987
OLR-1988.2. Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, 1987-1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1988.3. The General Theological Seminary, 1987-1988
OLR-1988.4. Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, 1987-1989
OLR-1988.5. The Katonah Gallery (2 folders), 1988-1989
OLR-1988.6. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987-1989
OLR-1988.7. National Academy of Design, 1987-1988
OLR-1988.8. National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, 1988-1989
OLR-1988.9. Kunsthistorisches Institut der Freien Universitat Berlin, 1988-1989
OLR-1988.10. Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1987-1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints documenting conservation work performed by the requesting institution following damage to the requested item(s).
OLR-1988.11. The Hudson River Museum, 1987
OLR-1988.12. The University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1987-1988
OLR-1988.13. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988-1989
Museum: Luman Reed Exhibition, 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Contains receipts of delivery with respect to Asher B. Durand paintings.
Library: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988-1989
Library: Huntington Museum of Art, 1987-1988
Library: The Hudson River Museum (2 folders), 1987-1989
Library: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1988
Library: New York Public Library, 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns delivery of certain insurance atlases to the New York Public Library for shipment with its similar material to a vendor for color microfilming.
Library: Amon Carter Museum, 1988
Scope and Contents Note
Found loose in files and put into a folder created by archivist.
Unfulfilled loans, 1988 (3 folders), 1975, 1987-1988, 1993
OLR-1989.1. The Brick Presbyterian Church, 1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1989.2. Musei Capitolini (2 folders), 1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes some correspondence in Italian.
OLR-1989.3. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1988-1989
OLR-1989.4. Lehman College Library, CUNY, 1989
OLR-1989.5. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1989-1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
OLR-1989.6. Museum of American Folk Art, 1988-1990
OLR-1989.7. Museum of the City of New York, 1987-1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1989.8. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian (2 folders), 1988-1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
OLR-1989.9. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1987-1989
OLR-1989.10. Princeton Historical Society, 1989
OLR-1989.11. The Queens Museum, 1987-1990
OLR-1989.12. Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State (Paris, France), 1989-1993
OLR-1989.13. Washington State Capital Museum, 1988-1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1989.15. National Gallery of Art, 1986-1990
OLR-1989.16. Historic Hudson Valley, 1989-1990
OLR-1989.17. The Connecticut Historical Society, 1989-1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1989.18. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1989-1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure. See also folder OL-R1990.12. The Brooklyn Museum.
Library: South Street Seaport Museum, 1988-1990
Library: Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, 1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
Library: City of New York, Municipal Building, 1989
Library: Meridian House International, 1988-1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
Library: The Octagon, The American Institute of Architects Foundation, 1988
Library: U.S. Senate Commission on the Bicentennial, 1988-1989
Library: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1988-1989
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogues.
Library: Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1988
Library: National Archives, Mid-Atlantic Region, 1989
Library: Historic Hudson Valley, 1989
Unfulfilled loans, 1989 (2 folders), 1988-1989
OLR-1990.2. Museum of the City of New York (2 folders), 1990-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1990.3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (3 folders), 1989-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
OLR-1990.4. South Street Seaport Museum, 1989-1990
OLR-1990.5. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of damage to the requested item(s).
OLR-1990.6. The Museum of Modern Art, 1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1990.7. The Octagon, The American Architectural Foundation (2 folders), 1990-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
OLR-1990.8. Mayor's Office, City of New York, 1990-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns loan of Flags on Fifty-Seventh Street, the Winter of 1918 by Childe Hassam for display in Mayor's office.
OLR-1990.9. Wadsworth Atheneum, 1990-1991
OLR-1990.10. The Museums at Hartwick College, 1990
OLR-1990.11. The Heckscher Museum, 1989-1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
OLR-1990.12. The Brooklyn Museum, 1990
Scope and Contents Note
See also folder OL-R1989.18. Corcoran Gallery of Art.
OLR-1990.13. The Brooklyn Museum, 1990-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1990.14. The Edith C. Blum Art Institute, The Bard College Center, 1985, 1988-1990
OLR-1990.15. The Berkshire Museum, 1989-1991
Museum: Comune di Milano (City of Milan, Italy), 1990
Museum: Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1990
Museum: The Jewish Museum, 1990-1991
Museum: Centre Georges Pompidou (2 folders), 1990-1991
Library: The Jewish Museum, 1990-1992
Library: The Alice and Hamilton Fish Library, 1990-1991
Library: Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1989-1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
Library: Stadt Frankfurt am Mein Historisches Museum, 1990
Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, 1990
Library: Staten Island Historical Society, 1990
Library: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1989-1991
Library: The Library of Congress, 1989-1990
Unfulfilled loans, 1990 (4 folders), 1989-1990
OLR-1991.1. The Lockwood-Matthews Mansion Museum, 1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1991.2. The National Museum of Sport (2 folders), 1990-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints and photographic print of damage to the requested item(s).
OLR-1991.3. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, 1989-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of frame of the requested item(s).
OLR-1991.4. Mayor's Office, City of New York, 1991-1993
OLR-1991.5. Katonah Museum of Art, 1991, 1996
Scope and Contents Note
Includes documents relating to two exhibitions.
OLR-1991.6. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 1991-1992
OLR-1991.7. The Octagon, The American Institute of Architects Foundation, 1991-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition checklist.
OLR-1991.8. Wadsworth Atheneum, 1989-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1991.9. The Brooklyn Museum, 1987-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1991.10. Allentown Art Museum, 1989-1992
Long-term loan: American Museum of Natural History, 1991
Long-term loan: Phelps-James House, Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, 1991
Long-term loan: National Park Service, 1991
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns deaccession and donation of ten of thirteen prints to Federal Hall National Memorial, National Park Service, following a long-term loan to that institution.
Museum: Mayor's Office, City of New York, 1991
Museum: National Academy of Design, 1991
Museum: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 1991
Scope and Contents Note
Contains research-related request for photograph of Diana of the Tower sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and additional information such as provenance.
Library: Casa Italiana, at Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, 1991
Library: Museum of the City of New York, 1991
Unfulfilled loans, 1991 (5 folders), 1988, 1990-1991
OLR-1992.1. Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University (2 folders), 1990-1993
OLR-1992.2. McCord Museum of American History, 1991-1993
OLR-1992.3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991-1993
OLR-1992.4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (3 folders), 1990-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic negatives and prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1992.5. Museum of American Glass, 1991-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue. Includes a key labeled "key for Museum of American Glass Box (ours)."
OLR-1992.6. Museo Mediceo (City of Florence, Italy) (2 folders), 1991-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of packing related to the requested item(s).
OLR-1992.7. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1991-1993
OLR-1992.8. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, 1992-1993
OLR-1992.9. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian (2 folders), 1991-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the frame of requested item(s).
OLR-1992.10. War Memorial Museum of Virginia, 1991-1993
OLR-1992.11. Berliner Festspiele GmbH (2 folders), 1991-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1992.12. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, 1991-1992
OLR-1992.13. The Octagon, The American Institute of Architects Foundation, 1991-1992
OLR-1992.14. The Taft Museum, 1991-1993
OLR-1992.15. Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, 1992
OLR-1992.16. Gallery of Art, Washington University, 1990-1992
OLR-1992.17. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, 1992-1993
OLR-1992.18. The Hudson River Museum, 1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1992.19. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1992-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1992.20. L'Assessorato alla Cultura (City of Rome, Italy) (3 folders), 1992-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1992.21. Florence Griswold Museum, 1991-1993
OLR-1992.22. Brandywine River Museum, 1991-1992
Museum: Queens Historical Society, 1992
Museum: Gracie Mansion Conservancy, 1988-1992
Museum: Lake Placid Center for the Arts, 1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
Library: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1991-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
Library: National Archives and Records Administration, 1991-1992
Library: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1990-1992
Library: High Museum of Art, 1991-1993
Unfulfilled loans, 1992 (3 folders), 1987-1992
Summaries of Loan Activity, 1992, 1992
Loan status reports, 1992, 1991-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Contains lists of outgoing loans for the period of 1990 to 1992. Also includes information regarding the status of long-term loans as of 1991.
OLR-1993.1. Virginia Historical Society, 1992-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1993.3. The Baltimore Museum of Art (2 folders), 1991-1994
OLR-1993.4. Williams College Museum of Art, 1992-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure and checklist.
OLR-1993.5. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1993-1995
OLR-1993.6. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1992-1993
OLR-1993.7. The Hudson River Museum (2 folders), 1992-1993
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OLR-1993.8. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
Library: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1992-1994
Library: Williams College, Archives and Special Collections, 1992-1993
Library: Bobst Library, New York University, 1993
Unfulfilled loans, 1993 (2 of 8 folders), 1991-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
Unfulfilled loans, 1993 (6 of 8 folders), 1991-1994
Unknown resolutions, 1993, 1993-1994
OLR-1994.1. Deputy Mayor's Office, City of New York, 1994-1996
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic and polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1994.1. Pictures for Possible Loan, circa 1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic and polaroid photographic prints that appear to be related to the OL-R1994.1 loan.
OLR-1994.2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993
OLR-1994.3. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1994-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1994.4. National Academy of Design, 1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1994.5. Virginia Historical Society, 1994
OLR-1994.6. Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (2 folders), 1993-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1994.7. Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State (Budapest, Hungary), 1994-1997
OLR-1994.8. The Carnegie Museum of Art, 1994
OLR-1994.9. The Hudson River Museum, 1994-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1994.10. The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., 1994
OLR-1994.11. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993-1994
OLR-1994.12. Monnaie de Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, 1993-1995
Long-term loan: Mayor's Office, City of New York, 1994-1995
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns loan of Steamboat 'Thomas E. Hulse' and Steamboat 'Cayuga' by James Bard for display in Mayor's Office. Includes photographic and polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
Long-term loan: Executive Mansion, State of New York, 1993-1995
Long-term loan: National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chesterwood, 1990-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns loan of three plaster sculptures by Daniel Chester French: Head of Abraham Lincoln (1954.79), Bust of Edgar Allan Poe (1953.7), and Statue of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1953.14).
Long-term loan: Owens-Thomas House, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s).
Long-term loan: General, 1990-1994
Museum: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, 1986-1992
Museum: The Brooklyn Museum, 1994
Museum: The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 1993-1994
Museum: Hudson River Maritime Museum, 1994
Museum: SUNY Binghamton/University of Pennsylvania, 1994
Library: Audubon House & Tropical Gardens, 1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
Library: Wave Hill, 1994
Library: Arts for Transit Division, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York, 1994-1996
Library: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994-1995
Library: Bobst Library, New York University, 1994
Library: The New York Public Library, 1994-1995
Library: The New York Public Library, 1994
Unfulfilled loans, 1994, 1991-1994
Loan status summary, 1994, 1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a summary of loans and exhibitions for the period of July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1994.
OLR-1995.1. The Rockwell Museum, 1994-1995
OLR-1995.2. Katonah Museum of Art, 1993-1995
OLR-1995.3. High Museum of Art, 1994-1996
OLR-1995.4. The Hudson River Museum, 1995-1996
OLR-1995.5. The Library of Congress, 1994-1995
Museum: Sony Theatres, 1995-1996
Library: Office of Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, 1995
Library: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994-1996
Library: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995
Library: Brandywine River Museum, 1995-1996
Library: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1994-1995
Library: The Holley-Williams House, 1995
Library: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, 1994-1995
Library: The New York Philharmonic Archives, 1994-1995
Library: Falvey Library, Villanova University, 1994-1995
Pending loans, 1995, 1994-1995
Unfulfilled loans, 1995 (3 folders), 1993-1996
Unknown resolution, 1995, 1994
OLR-1996.1. South Street Seaport Museum, 1996-1999
OLR-1996.4. Dumbarton House, 1996
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition checklist.
OLR-1996.5. Eaton Fine Art, Inc., 1996-1997
OLR-1996.6. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1995-1996
OLR-1996.7. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996
OLR-1996.8. Deutsches Historisches Museum, 1995-1996
OLR-1996.9. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1996-1997
OLR-1996.10. Macculloch Hall Historical Museum and Gardens, 1992-1997
OLR-1996.11. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1995-1996
OLR-1996.12. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1995-1996
OLR-1996.13. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995-1996
OLR-1996.14. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990-1996
OLR-1996.15. North Carolina Museum of Art, 1995-1997
Scope and Contents Note
Includes an exhibition press kit with color slides.
OLR-1996.16. Virginia Historical Society, 1995-1996
OLR-1996.17. National Building Museum, 1996
OLR-1996.18. Clermont State Historic Site, 1995-1997
OL-R1996.19. Knoedler & Company, 1996-1997
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
Museum: The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 1993-1997
Scope and Contents Note
Additionally includes documents related to a withdrawn loan request by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions.
Library: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995-1996
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
Library: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1996
Library: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1995-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a long-term loan of Edgar Allen Poe by Samuel Osgood.
Library: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian/PaineWebber Art Gallery (2 folders), 1995-1996
Scope and Contents Note
Includes slides documenting conservation work performed by the requesting institution relating to the requested item(s).
Library: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, 1994-1995
Library: Museum of the City of New York, 1996
Library: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 1996
Library: High Museum of Art, 1996-1997
Unfulfilled loans, 1996 (2 folders), 1994-1997
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of a requesting institution.
Unknown resolution, 1996, 1992-1996
OLR-1997.2. American Museum of Natural History, 1997
OLR-1997.3. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 1996-1997
OLR-1997.4. Dahesh Museum, 1997-2000
OLR-1997.5. Fordham University Law School Library, 1997
OLR-1997.6. The Frick Art Museum, 1994-1998
OLR-1997.7. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1996-1997
OLR-1997.8. Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1997-1999
OLR-1997.9. The Jewish Museum, 1996-1997
OLR-1997.10. The Mariners' Museum, 1995-1998
OLR-1997.11. National Museum of American Jewish Military History, 1997-1998
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a polaroid photographic print of the requested item(s).
OLR-1997.12. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1997-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s) and exhibition checklist.
OLR-1997.13. The Parrish Art Museum (2 folders), 1996-1997
OLR-1997.14. Tacoma Art Museum, 1997
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition checklist.
OLR-1997.15. Wildlife Conservation Society, 1997
Museum: Pfizer Corporation, 1996-1997
Museum: The American Federation of the Arts, 1997
Museum: South Carolina State Museum, 1996-2000
Library: The Museums at Hartwick College, 1997-1998
Library: American Museum of Natural History, 1996-1997
Library: Rosenbach Museum and Library, 1997
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition catalogue.
Library: National Archives, Northeast Region, 1997
Library: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1997-1998
Library: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 1996-1998
Library: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996-1998
Library: Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1996-1998
Library: The Hayward Gallery (2 folders), 1997-1998
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition education packet and brochure.
Library: Broadway Theatre Institute, 1997
Unfulfilled loans, 1997, 1997-1998
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of a requesting institution.
Unknown resolution, 1997, 1997
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of a requesting institution.
OLR-1998.1. The Navy Museum, Department of the Navy, 1996-1998
OL-1998.2. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1997-2000
OLR-1998.2. The Equitable Gallery, 1997-1998
OL-1998.3. Canton Museum of Art/Timken Museum of Art, 1998-1999
OLR-1998.3. Fraunces Tavern, 1998-2001
OL-1998.4. Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State (London, United Kingdom), 1997-2000
OL-1998.5. Abigail Adams Smith Museum, 1998-1999
OLR-1998.5. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998
OLR-1998.6. Museum of American Folk Art, 1995-1998
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
OLR-1998.7. The Museums at Stony Brook, 1998-1999
OLR-1998.8. Crocker Art Museum, 1997-1998
OL-1998.125. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1998-2000
Museum: Dallas Museum of Art, 1997-1999
Museum: Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State (Rome, Italy), 1998-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the catalogue for the Art in Embassies Collection of Villa Taverna.
Library: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1997-1998
Library: Brandywine River Museum, 1998-1999
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the exhibition brochure.
Library: Guild Hall of East Hampton, 1998-2000
Library: Hunter Galleries, Hunter College, 1997-1998
Library: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997-2000
Library: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1998-1999
Library: Museum of the City of New York, 1998
Library: Fales Library, New York University, 1998
Library: The New York Public Library (2 folders), 1997-1998
Library: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, 1997-1998
Library: The Oakland Museum, 1997-1999
Library: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1996-1998
Library: Grolier Club, 1997-1998
Library: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 1997-1998
Unfulfilled loans, 1998, 1998
Unknown resolution, 1998, 1998
Miscellaneous loan documents, 1994-1998, 1994-1998
Scope and Contents Note
Contains various assorted documents, including a list of long-term loans as of 1994, a 1996 Receipt for Outgoing Material from the Connecticut Historical Society documenting the arrival of a box created by The Duofold Health Underwear Co. of Mohawk, New York and a 1998 incoming loan of Bust of Paul Robeson by Jacob Epstein.
OUT-1999.1. Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State (Helsinki, Finland), 1999-2000
OLR-1999.1. Museum for Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 1998-1999
OL-1999.2. Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State (Netherlands), 1999-2000
OLR-1999.2. The Lincoln Museum, 1998-1999
OLR-1999.4. Osterreichische Galerie, 1998-1999
OL-1999.5. The Brooklyn Museum, 1996-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OL-1999.7. The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, 1999
OL-1999.8. Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999-2000
OL-1999.9. Brandywine River Museum, 1999
OL-1999.10. Fraunces Tavern Museum, 1999
OL-1999.11. Tate Britain (1 of 2), 1997-2002
OL-1999.11. Tate Britain (2 of 2), 1997-2002
OL-1999.12. The Museums at Stony Brook, 1999
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of a sculpture labeled 1936.660.
OL-1999.13. Yale University Art Gallery, 1999-2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints relating to packing of the requested item(s).
OL-1999.15. Virginia Historical Society, 1999-2000
OL-1999.19. National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic slides of requested item(s).
OL-1999.20. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, 1997-1999
OL-1999.21. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, 1997-1999
OL-1999.22. The Connecticut Historical Society, 1998-2006
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns a long-term loan of L.1952.2 Armchair, 1680-1720, Maple, ash from 1998 to 2006.
OL-1999.23. Stanford University Museum of Art, 1997-1999
OL-1999.24. The Museum of Modern Art, 1999
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OL-1999.27. Arts and Communications (Canada Trust), 1998
OL-1999.28. The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition checklist.
OL-1999.29. Buffalo Bill Historical Center (2 folders), 1999-2001
OL-1999.30. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a polaroid photographic print of the requested item(s).
OL-1999.31. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1998-2000
OL-1999.39. The Barnum Museum, 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OL-1999.40. Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State (London, UK), 1999-2000
OL-1999.41. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (3 of 4 folders), 1999-2001, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes a polaroid photographic print documenting damage to the requested item(s).
OL-1999.41. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1 of 4 folders), 1999-2001
OL-1999.42. Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a polaroid photographic print documenting damage to the requested item(s).
OL-1999.43. Gibbes Museum of Art, 1999-2000
OL-1999.44. Ellis Island Immigration Museum, 1999
OL-1999.45. Yale University Art Gallery, 1999-2002
OL-1999.46. National Academy of Design (2 folders), 1999-2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of the requested item(s).
Museum: The Union League Club, 1998-1999
Library: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1996-1999
Library: The Museums at Stony Brook, 1999
Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1998-1999
Library: Powerhouse Museum, 1997-1998
Library: Museum of the City of New York, 1998
Library: The Museums at Stony Brook, 1997-1999
Library: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
Library: Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1999-2000
Library: Putnam County Historical Society, 1999-2000
Library: Museum Presentation Associates/Cincinnati Art Museum, 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
See also folder Library: Museum Presentation Associates/The Long Island Museum (2001).
Unfulfilled loans, 1999 (3 folders), 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes an exhibition brochure. Numbers recorded for the pending, but eventually unfulfilled loans include: OL-1999.14, OL-1999.32, OL-1999.33, OL-1999.34, OL-1999.37, OL-1999.38, OL-1999.47, OL-1999.48.
Unknown resolution, 1999 (1 of 2), 1997-1999
Unknown resolution, 1999 (2 of 2), 1997-1999
Outgoing loan list, 1999, 2002
OL-2000.1. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (3 folders), 2000-2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes polaroid photographic prints of conditions relating to the requested item(s). Includes the bound press reviews (in Spanish) for the exhibition Exploring Eden: 19th Century American Landscape.
OLR-2000.1. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. (2 folders), 1998-2000
OL-2000.2. Hudson River Museum, 2000
OLR-2000.2. The Century Association, 2000
OL-2000.4. Huntington Museum of Art, 2000-2001
OL-2000.5. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-2002
Scope and Contents Note
Includes photographic prints of the requested item(s) and polaroid photographic prints documenting damage to the requested item(s).
OL-2000.6. National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chesterwood, 1986-2000
OL-2000.7. Virginia Historical Society, 2000-2001
OL-2000.11. The Montclair Art Museum, 2000-2002
OL-2000.12. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-2002
OL-2000.13. Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, 2000-2003
OL-2000.15. The National Museum of Western Art, 2000-2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition labels.
OL-2000.21. Mattatuck Museum, 2000-2002
OL-2000.23. The Long Island Museum, 2000-2001
OL-2000.25. Katonah Museum of Art, 2000-2002
Museum: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian, 2000-2001
Library: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 2000-5001
Library: Yale University Art Gallery, 1999-2000
Library: The Detroit Institute of the Arts, 2000-2001
Library: The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2000-2001
Library: Fraunces Tavern Museum, 2000-2001
Unfulfilled loans, 2000 (4 folders), 1999-2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of a requesting institution. Numbers recorded for the pending, but eventually unfulfilled loans include: OL-2000.8, OL-2000.9, OL-2000.14, OL-2000.7, OL-2000.28.
Unknown resolution, 2000, 2000
Outgoing loan list, 2000, 2002
Outgoing loan updates, 2000, 2000
OL-2001.3. The Parrish Art Museum, 2001
OL-2001.6. Albany Institute of History and Art, 2001-2002
OL-2001.10. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian, 2001
OL-2001.12. Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, Prospect Park Tennis House, 2001
OL-2001.16. Dumbarton House, 2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OL-2001.18. The Gallery at the American Bible Society, 2001-2002
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OL-2001.19. Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State (London, United Kingdom), 1997-2001
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of the requested item(s) installed at the ambassador's official residence.
OL-2001.20. Columbia University, 2001-2002
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns a long-term loan of the Gulian Verplanck diploma issued by King's College beginning in 1960. Included are photocopied correspondence and board minutes from 1960 relating to the loan.
OL-2001.21. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 2001-2003
OL-2001.24. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2001-2003
OL-2001.26. Mobile Museum of Art, 2000-2005
OL-2001.28. Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State (Berlin, Germany), 2001-2005
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exhibition brochure.
OL-2001.31. National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, 2001-2003
Library: Museum Presentation Associates/The Long Island Museum, 2001
Scope and Contents Note
See also folder Library: Museum Presentation Associates/Cincinnati Art Museum (1999-2000).
Library: New Jersey State Museum, 2001-2002
Unfulfilled loans, 2001 (2 folders), 2001-2002
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a photographic print of a requesting institution. Numbers recorded for the pending, but eventually unfulfilled loans include: OL-2001.2, OL-2001.5, OL-2001.15, OL-2001.29.
Unknown resolution, 2001, 2001
Outgoing loan list, 2001, 2002
OL-2002.17. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2002-2003
OL-2002.18. U.S. House of Representatives, 2002
Scope and Contents Note
Concerns an exhibition at a commemorative joint session of Congress at Federal Hall in New York City.
OL-2002.21. Eli Wilner and Company, 2002
OL-2002.25. American Broadcasting Corporation, 2002
Museum: Listening to the City, 2002
Unfulfilled loans, 2002 (1 of 2), 2001-2002
Scope and Contents Note
Numbers recorded for the pending, but eventually unfulfilled loans include: OL-2002.1, OL-2002.3, OL-2002.4, OL-2002.6, OL-2002.9, OL-2002.10, OL-2002.12.
Unfulfilled loans, 2002 (2 of 2), 2001-2002
Outgoing loan list, 2002, 2002
Subseries IV.C. Albina De Meio and Related Files, 1979-1994, 1999
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes files related to collection management concerns of the late 1980s through the early 1990s. Most of the files appear to be those of Albina De Meio, who was Administrator for Exhibitions & Registration from 1989-1994. The series also holds files from a few years preceding De Meio, and these are possibly from the files of Elizabeth (Betty) Romanella, the Chief Registrar and Registrar of Exhibitions at the time. The files include material on object inventories and storage, arrangements for off-site warehousing, custody receipts, general files on the exposure of collections when facilities were used for exhibitions and special events, including the use of part of the building by the Jewish Museum from 1991-1993.
Arrangement Note
The subseries is arranged by general subject categories. The categories were defined by the processing archivist in order to simplify and summarize the presentation of the many individual folders in the subseries. The archivist developed the categories based on observation of the relationship of groups of folders within the original storage boxes. Although the archivist did make some adjustments to their arrangement, in large part the folders found together remain that way.
Processing Information Note
The subseries was arranged and described by processing archivist Larry Weimer in September 2016. Some additional material was transferred to the archives in 2017-19 and added to the finding aid in 2021 by Weimer. The documents were physically processed to only a minimal extent and so remain in their original folders.
Storage & Warehousing (24 folders), 1979, 1987-1988
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the "Proposal for improving and enlarging art storage facilities at N-YHS" by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates (1979). Includes inventory notes and locations (1987-88).
Storage & Warehousing (13 folders), 1987-1990
Scope and Contents Note
Includes moving, scheduling, and removal notices.
Storage & Warehousing (15 folders), 1990-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Primarily includes records related to the packing and transport of decorative arts and paintings to the Crozier warehouse.
Storage & Warehousing (10 folders), 1992-1994
Storage & Warehousing (11 folders), 1989-1995, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Primarily includes records related to the packing and transport of decorative arts and paintings to the Crozier warehouse, including a photocopy of the signed 1990 agreement, with some related mid-1990s documents.
Storage & Warehousing, circa 1990, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes files related to the move to Crozier. Includes contract and floor plan blueprints.
Labels (2 folders), Undated
Scope and Contents Note
Includes various labels from the "vault" and the "gun closet."
Custody Receipts (24 folders), 1987-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files on objects left with N-YHS for consideration of accepting it for the collection. Most indicate the object was declined, but some were accessioned.
Collections Use & Access (16 folders), 1989-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes files related to exhibitions, special events, and researcher access. No specific exhibition is represented here in any depth.
Collection Management Guidelines, circa 1993, 1999
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a binder (now disbound) of policy and procedure documents. The binder dated from the early 1990s, but inside the front cover was a 1999 procedure for numbering objects.
Jewish Museum (4 folders), 1989-1991
Administration (9 folders), 1989-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes arrangements of office equipment, including computers, and various schematic floor plans.
Subseries IV.D. Luce Center Logistics, 1993, 1998-2001
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries appears to be a mix of files from various individuals involved with the logistics of establishing the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, which opened in 2000, including project manager Leslie Davol, Nancy Rosoff, researcher Jennifer Jensen, and perhaps others. The subject matter includes environmental considerations for the Luce Center, such as HVAC and lighting, arrangements for packing and transport of objects from the Crozier warehouse to the Center, and preliminary object descriptions and location mapping.
Arrangement Note
The subseries is arranged by general subject categories. The categories were defined by the processing archivist in order to simplify and summarize the presentation of the individual folders in the subseries. The archivist developed the categories based on observation of the relationship of groups of folders within the original storage boxes. Although the archivist did make some adjustments to their arrangement, in large part the folders found together remain that way.
Processing Information Note
The subseries was arranged and described by processing archivist Larry Weimer in September 2016. The documents were physically processed to only a minimal extent and so remain in their original folders.
Additional folders were transferred to the archives in 2017 and added to the finding aid in April 2021.
Warehousing (4 folders), 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes documents related to arrangements for the transfer of objects from the off-site Crozier warehouse to the Luce center and elsewhere. Includes N-YHS's "Guidelines for Handling Collections" (2000).
Warehousing (4 folders), 1999, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes documents related to arrangements for the transfer of objects from the off-site Crozier warehouse to the Luce center and elsewhere.
Luce Center Construction (6 folders), 1993, 1998-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes documents concerning planning for lighting, HVAC, wall paint, and other environmental matters. Includes a copy of the 1993 building feasibility study, with notes, by the architects Beyer Blinder Belle and others.
Object Location Mapping & Text (16 folders), 1999-2000
Scope and Contents Note
Includes preliminary drafts of descriptive texts for some objects and lists and diagrams indicating proposed locations for objects in the Luce Center.
Object Location Mapping (4 folders), 2000?
Scope and Contents Note
Includes the disbound contents of a binder concerning the location mapping for objects in the Luce Center.
Object Location Mapping, 2000-2002, inclusive
Subseries IV.E. Conservation Surveys and Other Files, 1977-2007, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
The subseries includes records that have a specific focus on conservation of the collections and particular objects, especially surveys and other standalone files transferred to the archives by the museum's conservators. (Conservation-related files that were found in the context of curatorial, exhibition, or other file sets are found there.)
Arrangement
The subseries is arranged roughly by chronology and subject.
Processing Information
The subseries was added to the organization of the finding aid in April 2021 by archivist Larry Weimer to accommodate certain recent transfers of records to the archives. During the 2016 archives processing project, conservation-related files were generally found with curatorial and other records and so can be found there as well as in this subseries.
Paintings Conservation. Images and Exhibition (2 folders), 1977-1978, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes slides of paintings by Thomas Cole, William Beekman, and Thomas Sully, and related conservation details. Includes snapshots of gallery installation.
Various Conservation Files (Richard Gallerani Files?) (9 folders), 1988-1995, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Topics include: silver conservation survey (1990); list of loans to Gracie Mansion (1990); buildings renovation notes from a conservation perspective (1992-94); sculpture survey (1990); paintings conservation for the Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss exhibition (1989-1993); Mickey Mouse advertisement from the Bella Landauer collection (1994); some paintings conservation cards (circa 1988); photos of saddle bags, before and after treatment (1995); and color slides of various sculptures.
Outgoing Loan Files (Richard Gallerani Files?) (30 folders), 1991-1995, inclusive
Furniture Survey (6 folders), 1990s?, inclusive
Treated Miniatures, 1991, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes binder of lists by accession number of treated miniatures, with photographic contact sheets and negatives of the objects, and removed labels with identifying notations, etc.
Collections Survey, circa 1991, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Small binder of reports on: new study/storage facilities for paintings, sculpture and decorative arts; silver; furniture; sculpture; and architectural collections.
Textile Survey (17 folders), 1995-1997, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Survey performed by The Textile Conservation Workshop, funded by the Institute of Museum Services. Object level reports and photographs. Includes printed textiles, scarves, kerchiefs, beadwork, samplers, needlework, rugs, tablecloths, wall hangings, clothing, afghan, bed coverings, coverlets, flags, banners, Masonic, etc.
Conservation/cataloging worksheets, 1998-1999, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes Collections Cataloging Worksheets and Multi-MIMSY summary reports for various artworks (furniture, toys, ceramics, textiles, personal accessories, etc.) Includes color photographs (Polaroids)of objects stapled to worksheets.
Painting glazing project (1 folder), 2007, inclusive
Subseries IV.F. Incoming Loan and Other Exhibition-Related Files, 1980-2007, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
The subseries includes exhibition records that were transferred to the archives, generally from the Registrar/Collections Management unit, rather than the Curatorial are other museum units. These generally concern incoming loans, object movement and safekeeping, and other matters within the broad purview of Collections Management.
Arrangement
The subseries was created in 2021 to accomodate transfers received after the 2016 archives processing project. The files largely remain as received from the Museum and are described broadly.
That Belmont Look, 1980, inclusive
Tiffany Silver, 1980, inclusive
A Remnant in the Wilderness: New York Dutch Scripture Paintings, 1980, inclusive
Small Folk, 1980-1981, inclusive
Oom Pah Pah: The Great American Band, 1982, inclusive
Oom Pah Pah: The Great American Band, 1982, inclusive
The Stature of Liberty: America's Symbol of Freedom in Artists' Views, 1985-1986, inclusive
Baroness Hyde de Neuville: Sketches of America, 1984, inclusive
Lost in the Shuffle, 1984-1985, inclusive
Pageant of Heraldry in Britain & America, 1984, inclusive
New York & the China Trade, 1984, inclusive
Centuries of Childhood, 1985, inclusive
Karol Kozlowski, 1985, inclusive
Niagara, 1986, inclusive
James Henry Cafferty, 1986, inclusive
Various exhibitions, 1996-2007, inclusive
Scope and Contents
The box holds incoming loan files of many exhibitions: Murders that Changed New York; Heny James; Treasures from Mt. Vernon; George B. Post; William Sydney Mount; Unconventional Currier & Ives; To Hell with Reform; Celebrated Hatter; New York City Ballet (largest set in box); $24 Deal; Uncle Sam; Flophouse; Building on the Flatiron; The Rosenbergs; Seat of Empire; Manhattan Unfurled; Angry Dove; Kid City; Victoria Woodhull; Eleanor Roosevelt.
Subseries IV.G. General Collections Management Files, 1980s-2008, inclusive
Extent
Various files, 1980s-1990s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes various files transferred to the archives in 2019, described by the museum as: "Records include New York Times articles about New-York Historical Society financial crisis in the 1990's, emergency planning handbooks, insurance documents for disaster planning, correspondence about art insurance coverage, letters outlining N-YHS temporary holding letters, capital campaign project documents, correspondence about research of collections, speakers lists from Gilder Lehrman Collection, and acquisition worksheets." additional Museum records transferred at the time are also in the box including: registrar reports (circa 1986) and a few exhibition files (especially watercolors (1984).
Collection Management Guidelines and Procedures Manual, circa 1990, inclusive
Various files, 1990s-2002, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This box was transferred by the museum to the archives in 2020. It includes a mix of files that appear to have come from the files of various collections management staff including Jack Rutland, Margaret Tamulonis, Albina deMeio, Kimberly Terbush, Janice Dockery, and others. The files relate to loans, the Treasures reinstallation, acquisitions (including original 1998 gift agreement for the Emma Thursby portrait by Healy), photographs of objects destroyed according to procedure (1999), affidavits concerning subway photographs ownership (1995), and various other matters.
Grants for Conservation and Digitization, 1987-2004, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes various files transferred to the archives from the museum in 2019, which described the files as: "Records include correspondence and reports for museum grants between the years 1987-2004. The majority of the grants are for conservation programs for paintings and watercolors for N-YHS collections, but some grants involve digitization projects and updates to collections management policies. Types of records included are grant reports, emails and correspondence, CV's of relevant personnel. Also included are invoices of individual conservators.'
Collections Management Policies and Projects, circa 1987-2008, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes records transferred to the archives by the museum in 2019. The museum described the content as: "Records include acquisition proposals, deaccession reports, and reviews of potential acquisitions. Includes collections management policies for special events, art handling, and the Decorative Arts Department; documents on conservation projects such as textile rolling and storage are present as well."
Series V. Catalogues, Inventories, Surveys, 1830-2000
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The series includes a wide variety of miscellaneous catalogues, inventories, and other documents related to object descriptions. These range from John Delafield's 1830 handwritten inventory of the ancient coins and medals in the N-YHS "cabinet" to the user manual for the Multi-MIMSY 2000 System, N-YHS's collection management system at the turn of the twenty-first century. The series also holds the annotated and edited manuscripts of three catalogues published in the 1970s-1980s of N-YHS's American paintings (by Richard J. Koke and by Wayne Craven) and glass paperweights (by Paul Hollister). The container list includes a complete list of the specific contents.
Arrangement Note
The material in the collection was compiled together into the series by the processing archivist. The series is arranged in chronological order.
Processing Information Note
The series was processed in September 2016 by project archivists Margaret Kaczorowski and Larry Weimer. The Craven and Hollister publication files are unprocessed and are still in their original folders.
Additional material was transferred to the archives in 2017-2020, some of wich was added to this series in 2021 by archivist Larry Weimer.
J. Delafield's Inventory of N-YHS's Coins & Medals, 1830
Printed Lists Likely Related to Coin Inventory (5 folders), circa 1830?
Catalogue of the N-YHS Museum & Gallery of Art, 1866
"Champlain's Astrolabe", 1879
Scope and Contents Note
Includes typescript concerning the astrolabe written by A.J. Russell. Also includes a reprint from the N-YHS Quarterly Bulletin of George Zabriskie's article "A Story of Astrolabes."
Catalogue of the N-YHS Museum & Gallery of Art, 1903
Description of the Cabinet of Coins & Medals of John C. Kunze, Undated
Scope and Contents Note
Includes handwritten notes of drawer contents, possibly a copy of a printed description.
"Inventory of the Jenny Lind Collection" by Leonidas Westervelt, circa 1945
Checklist of N-YHS Sculpture & Medals, circa 1970?
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society. Correspondence and Additional Entry Research (10 folders), 1959-1979
Scope and Contents Note
These folders include correspondence and some research notes related to the production of Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society, published in 1974 by Yale University Press. Wayne Craven was the author of the original manuscript, which was published after extensive further research and editing at N-YHS by Wendy Shadwell, Robert Strunsky, and Librarian James Gregory.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society (17 of 47 folders), circa 1970
Scope and Contents Note
This record carton and the next two Includes Wayne Craven's manuscript for this book with further research notes and edits by Wendy Shadwell and others. The documents remain in their original folders.
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society (21 of 47 folders), circa 1970
Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society (9 of 47 folders), circa 1970
Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, circa 1974
Scope and Contents Note
Includes edited, draft typescripts of Paul Hollister's book, published in 1974.
Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, circa 1974
Scope and Contents Note
Includes index cards with descriptive information for the illustrations, glossary, etc. from the book.
Randall J. Le Boeuf, Jr. Catalogue of his Robert Fulton Collection (1 of 2), circa 1970s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
4 of 7 binders of Le Boeuf's original, annotated catalogue, covering both library and museum materials. This box holds Volumes I and II of "ALS [autograph letter signed] and other original MS [manuscript] material"; a volume of Steamboats, America and Foreign; and a volume on "Pictures," meaning "paintings, photos, engravings, prints." This last volume has an overview, dated 1976, of the entire catalogue.
Randall J. Le Boeuf, Jr. Catalogue of his Robert Fulton Collection (2 of 2), circa 1970s, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Includes 3 of 7 binders, including the three volumes covering "books, newspapers, pamphlets."
American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society (Box 1 of 4), circa 1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents Note
These 4 boxes hold 2 copies of the annotated and edited typescript for Richard J. Koke's American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society: A Catalog of the Collection, Including Historical, Narrative, and Marine Art, published in 1982. The first set consists of 13 volumes of photocopies. The second set is an incomplete 11 volume set. Although both the sets are photocopies, the second copy is marked as the original. Also there appears to be some original edits in the second set that do not appear in the first set. This first box holds set 1, volumes 1-5.
American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society (Box 2 of 4), circa 1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents Note
This box holds set 1, volumes 6-11.
American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society (Box 3 of 4), circa 1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This box holds set 1, volumes 12-13, and set 2, numbered as volumes 14-17.
American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New-York Historical Society (Box 4 of 4), circa 1982, inclusive
Scope and Contents
This box holds set 2, volumes 18-23.
Swords, 1987, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Two binders of object descriptions.
Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. Collection, circa 1988?
Miscellaneous Loose Tags, Labels, etc., circa 1865-1909
Museum Collections Workbook (2 copies) (4 folders), circa 1991
Multi-MIMSY 2000 Book. Activities (2 folders), 1997 October
Multi-MIMSY 2000. Implementation Manual (Draft), 1998 January
Scope and Contents Note
Includes system installation and upgrade CDs.
Multi-MIMSY 2000 Book. (4 manuals/folders), 1999
Multi-MIMSY 2000. Vocabulary List Reports, 2000
Index cards to reference materials, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Csrds arranged by chronology and subject pointing to research resources, such as books, photos, etc., at least some of which are in N-YHS collections.
Series VI. Object Images, 1765, circa 1864-circa 1990
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The series includes the museum's photograph files for select objects, which generally appears to be paintings, drawings and sculpture. The photograph files also hold some other documents, such as correspondence related to acquisitions, research notes, inquiries, and other matters. The series also holds a set of negatives for the Stuart collection, lantern slides of the works of American and European artists, and photographs of the Grider, Catlin and Dunsmore drawings.
Arrangement Note
The series is organized in two subseries:
Subseries VI.A. Image Files
Subseries VI.B. Sets of Images
Subseries VI.A. Image Files, 1765, circa 1864-circa 1990
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The series includes the museum's photograph files for select objects, which generally appears to be paintings, drawings, and some sculpture. The series retains the original folders, which include the object/accession number, the negative number of the object's image and, for some, other notes. For the bulk of the folders, the content includes only one or two black and white photographic prints. Many of the folders hold no documents, but those empty folders were also retained in the series.
In addition to photographs, a considerable number of folders also include other documents. These documents concern the object's acquisition, attributions, research notes on the object's subject, inquiries from outside N-YHS about the object, conservation/restoration reports, deaccession in some cases, and other matter. A small number of these additional documents are exceptional, such as the original 1765 declaration of John Cruger naming Joseph Drake a freeman and citizen of New York City (object 1957.64) and Frederic De Peyster's 1864 letter presenting the drawing by John J. Audubon of John Cleeves Symmes to N-YHS (object 1864.4). Also, some files include a negative or transparency (often color) of the object. During processing, the archivist attempted on a time limited best efforts basis to identify which files held documents other than black and white prints and these instances are noted in the container list below; researchers should not rely exclusively on these notes as other files may well hold useful documentation, such as descriptions written on the back of photographs.
Arrangement Note
The series follows the original order of the files, which includes three sets, each of which is in object number order. The first set includes objects related to boats or ships. The second set, which is the bulk of the series, includes objects other than boats or ships. The third set includes a small number of loaned objects.
Processing Information Note
The series was described and minimally processed in September 2016 by project archivists Margaret Kaczorowski and Larry Weimer. The documents remain in their original folders.
Boats or Ships. x.160 - x.281, -
Boats or Ships. 1899.1 - 1947.66, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1924.102, 1924.120, 1936.806, 1938.410, 1938.411, 1938.413, 1938.415, 1941.926, 1942.248); correspondence/notes (1924.111, 1925.107, 1926.76, 1947.66).
Boats or Ships. 1948.485 - 1981.14, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1948.488); correspondence/notes (1948.486, 1950.292, 1954.167).
1816.1 - 1867.391, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1818.1,1854.1, 1856.3, 1863.10, 1867.298, 1867.306); correspondence/notes (1816.1, 1816.2, 1817.1, 1817.6, 1817.10, 1854.1, 1857.7, 1860.90, 1860.91, 1860.96, 1862.5, 1864.1, 1864.4, 1867.294, 1867.301); negatives/transparencies (1867.294, 1867.298, 1867.302, 1867.306, 1867.312). Includes the original April 5, 1864, letter from Frederic De Peyster describing and presenting the drawing by John J. Audubon of John Cleeves Symmes to N-YHS (object 1864.4).
1867.392 - 1899.7, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1867.438, 1871.1, 1887.6, 1897.1); correspondence/notes (1873.4, 1874.2, 1881.21, 1881.22, 1887.8, 1895.8, 1896.2); negatives/transparencies (1873.4, 1880.10, 1887.6); slides (1873.5 to 1873.19).
1900.7 - 1910.62, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1905.292, 1907.3, 1908.8, 1909.20, 1910.5); correspondence/notes (1900.7, 1903.3, 1903.13, 1904.1, 1904.36, 1905.184, 1906.2, 1906.4, 1907.7, 1907.32, 1907.10, 1908.2, 1909.14, 1909.26, 1910.12, 1910.23, 1910.47); negatives/transparencies (1906.4, 1907.10, 1909.16, 1910.8); slides (1904.1).
1911.2 - 1921.118, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1918.6, 1918.16, 1918.17, 1920.4, 1921.11); correspondence/notes (1911.24, 1912.5, 1915.1. 1915.7, 1917.3, 1920.4); negatives/transparencies (1918.6, 1920.150, 1921.108).
1922.6 - 1925.196, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1925.5, 1925.14); correspondence/notes (1923.10, 1923.161 A + B, 1924.11, 1925.177, 1925.29a, 1925.100, 1925.177); negatives/transparencies (1923.5, 1923.137, 1923.138).
1926.2 - 1935.59, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1929.26, 1930.2, 1932.4); correspondence/notes (1931.4, 1932.10, 1932.16, 1932.237, 1933.4, 1933.8, 1934.5, 1934.11, 1934.13, 1934.14, 1935.30); negatives/transparencies (1930.2, 1932.21, 1932.23, 1933.8).
1935.78 - 1936.1016, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1935.98, 1936.404, 1936.799); correspondence/notes (1935.87, 1935.92, 1935.101, 1936.799); negatives/transparencies (1935.157).
1937.36 - 1941.481, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1937.162, 1937.450, 1940.76, 1940.451, 1941.240, 1941.269, 1941.363, 1941.425); correspondence/notes (1937.451, 1937.583, 1937.1718, 1937.1721, 1938.316, 1938.350, 1939.11, 1940.463, 1940.486; 1940.971, 1941.93, 1941.132, 1941.133, 1941.136, 1941.241, 1941.363); negatives/transparencies (1937.138, 1937.1805, 1939.11, 1939.243, 1939.244, 1940.451). Includes documents regarding the estate settlement of Elizabeth B. Knight (1940.350).
1941.640 - 1944.392 to .428, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1941.640, 1941.725, 1944.17); correspondence/notes (1941.1178, 1942.323, 1942.351, 1943.168, 1943.388, 1944.72, 1944.73, 1944.150, 1944.151, 1944.357, 1944.359); negatives/transparencies (1941.1210, 1942.323, 1942.324, 1942.356, 1942.357). Includes an attribution note from 1898 (1943.388).
1945.2 - 1947.188, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1925.5, 1925.14); correspondence/notes (1945.37, 1945.138, 1945.454, 1945.580, 1946.51, 1946.159, 1946.179, 1946.293, 1946.294, 1946.296, 1946.299, 1946.300, 1946.345, 1947.99); negatives/transparencies (1945.580, 1946.135, 1946.139, 1946.163, 1946.290).
1947.189 - 1948.115, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1925.5, 1925.14); correspondence/notes (1947.368, 1947.414a and b, 1947.415, 1947.450, 1947.462, 1947.507, 1947.523, 1948.40 to .42).
1948.122 - 1950.308, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence/notes (1948.174, 1948.469, 1948.473, 1948.577, 1949.23, 1949.136, 1949.273, 1950.5, 1950.7, 1950.27, 1950.30, 1950.46, 1950.78, 1950.230, 1950.237, 1950.303a-j, 1950.308); negatives/transparencies (1950.27).
1950.309 - 1952.441, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence/notes (1950.309,1950.311, 1950.333, 1950.335, 1951.9, 1951.76, 1951.80, 1951.444, 1951.466, 1951.468, 1951.475, 1952.80, 1952.82, 1952.84, 1952.289, 1952.335, 1952.381, 1952.425); negatives/transparencies (1951.11, 1951.77, 1952.29, 1952.80).
1953.1 - 1955.297, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence/notes (1953.63, 1953.71, 1953.101, 1953.185, 1954.39, 1955.172, 1955.275, 1953.238, 1953.318, 1954.39, 1954.57, 1954.177, 1954.197, 1955.96, 1955.97, 1955.98, 1955.172, 1955.275); negatives/transparencies (1953.63, 1953.198, 1953.292, 1955.263).
1955.6 - 1959.19, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1957.64); correspondence/notes (1956.6, 1956.54, 1956.69, 1956.192, 1957.23, 1957.39, 1957.57, 1957.64, 1957.65, 1957.73, 1957.80, 1957.135, 1957.232, 1957.249, 1957.261, 1958.85, 1958.139, 1959.1 1959.2); negatives/transparencies (1956.145, 1957.52, 1957.64, 1957.97); slide (1957.112, 1957.114). Includes original 1765 declaration of John Cruger naming Joseph Drake a freeman and citizen of New York City (1957.64).
1959.20 - 1968.39, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence/notes (1960.48, 1961.63, 1962.19, 1961.36, 1962.42, 1962.69, 1962.71, 1962.72, 1962.73, 1962.78, 1963.9, 1963.45, 1964.16, 1966.19, 1966.21, 1966.34, 1966.48, 1966.60, 1966.66); negatives/transparencies (1961.44).
1969.16 a,b - 1982.16, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (1973.36); correspondence/notes (1969.20, 1969.30, 1969.43, 1969.44, 1969.45, 1969.48, 1969.53, 1970.73, 1971.3, 1971.97, 1971.100, 1971.114, 1971.115, 1971.116, 1971.118, 1971.125, 1973.8, 1973.20, 1973.35, 1973.39, 1974.31, 1974.32, 1974.61, 1975.1, 1975.18, 1979.80); transparencies/slides (1969.26, 1970.75, 1971.119, 1973.38, 1973.54 (Van Vorst), 1976.68, 1978.46, 1979.80, 1980.56, 1981.12). Includes gift of unidentified gentleman and lady from Mr. and Mrs. William Middendorf II (1970.72, 1970.73) and gift of Peck portraits from Mrs. Cecil G. Hemsley (1974.29); portrait of Seth Low by Eastman Johnson (1975.18); deed of gift for the Portrait of Mrs. Van Vorst by Mary Foote from Edward Foote (1978.31).
1983.32 - 1985.17, -
Scope and Contents Note
Negatives/transparencies/slides (1984.121). Includes gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Feld (1983.50, 1983.51, 1983.52, 1983.53, 1983.54, 1983.55); gift from Mrs. Rose Newman of Raphael Soyer drawing (1985.17).
X.5 - x.521, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes restoration notes (x.5, x.27, x.63); correspondence/notes (x.26, x.63, x.273, x.293, x.515); negatives/transparencies (x.474).
L1927.1 - L1972.1, -
Scope and Contents Note
Includes correspondence/notes on loans (L1927.1, L1945.3, L1946.1, L1946.2, L1946.6, L1947.5, L1947.8, L1948.4, L1948.5, L1952.1, L1953.2, L1953.5, L1954.1, L1954.5, L1954.6, L1955.1, L1955.2, L1955.7). Includes loan of Lord and Lady Stirling portraits from Goodhue Livingston (L1960.5).
Subseries VI.B. Sets of Images, Undated, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
The subseries includes sets of images representing portions of N-YHS's current or past collections. The subseries currently holds only a few such sets: negatives of the Stuart collection, small (4" x 3") lantern slides of works by American and European artists, and photographs of the Rufus A. Grider powder horns, George Catlin drawings, and Dunsmore drawings.
In 2019, several trays of slides were transferred to the archives. These appear to be of various objects and of objects in exhibitions. Some slides appear to be reference objects from other institutions.
Processing Information Note
It is unclear when the sets were originally compiled and boxed. The Stuart glass negatives were boxed by conservator Alan Balicki in October 2016. The material was integrated and described with the Museum Department records in 2016 by archivist Larry Weimer. additional slides were processed into the collection in 2021 by Weimer.
Stuart Collection Negatives (Acetate), Undated
Scope and Contents Note
Includes acetate negatives, mostly 8x11, of Stuart collection objects. Emails in the box from 2007 suggest that these were scanned and have digital versions.
Stuart Collection Negatives (Glass), Undated
Scope and Contents Note
Includes ten 8x11 plates: #26, 114, 141, 169, 172, 186, 200, 229, 232, 239.
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Alexander to Chapman, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Child to Durand, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Durand to Feke, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Feke to Hesselius, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Hesselius to Jarvis, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Jennys to Mount, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Mount to Robertson, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Savage to Stuart, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Stuart to Vanderlyn, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Vanderlyn to Wright, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Unknown, Undated
Lantern Slides. American Artists. Unknown; European (Italian, Spanish), Undated
Lantern Slides. European Artists (Dutch, English, Flemish, French, Italian), Undated
Photographs & inventory. Rufus A. Grider Powder Horn Drawings (21 folders), Undated
Photographs. Dunsmore Drawings, Undated
Photographs. George Catlin Drawings (8 folders), Circa 1987?
Scope and Contents Note
Includes a report on the Catlin Collection by Curator Ella Foshay.