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.