New-York Historical Society

The New -York Historical Society is an American organization located in New York City and is committed to preserving the history of the city. The society operates a museum and library at its headquarters in Manhattan at the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West. The building is open to the public from Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00 clock and Sundays between 11:00 17:00 clock. The association also operates many public educational programs. Since 2004, Louise Mirrer of the City University of New York President of the New-York Historical Society.

Survey

The New-York Historical Society, an educational and research institution, presents exhibitions, public programs and conducts research on the history and its influence on the world today. Since its founding in 1804, the task is to research the history of the city of New York, the State of New York and the United States. It also serves as a national forum for discussion and examination of issues related to the origins and meaning of the story. The museum houses four centuries of history, artifacts and art that tell the story of America from the perspective of New York. The building also houses an extensive library of manuscripts, newspapers, and other documents covering a period of four centuries. " Since the existence of such a large historic public library in a building that is ideal for keeping the beautiful exhibits, is a great addition to the cultural richness of New York City " said Joyce Appleby, a professor of history at UCLA.

Collections

The association maintains a collection of historical artifacts, American art, and other materials about the history of the United States of America and New York, and is home to an independent research library and the oldest museum in New York City. The "Great Collection" of the association includes more than 4.5 million documents, images, artifacts and ephemera of American history. It includes, inter alia collections on the following topics:

• Slavery
• The Civil War and Reconstruction
• All 435 surviving watercolors for his book Birds of America
• Paintings of the Hudson River School
• Documents that demonstrate the social dimensions of the early history of the United States
• The largest known collection of Tiffany Lamps
• Extensive materials relating to the founding and early history of the country

In addition, the club has paintings and craft objects that belonged to the first New York families, such as the Beekmans, the Roosevelts, the Rapaljes and others. "The children Rapalje ", painted by John Durand in 1768 and this is true in his collection as one of the finest examples of colonial art in America. In honor of the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, noted Professor Steven Mintz of the University of Houston that the Center " an incredible source of visual means ( and ), and invaluable in the study of the history of children and families of private life. "

History

The New-York Historical Society was founded on 20 November 1804 mainly through the efforts of John Pintard. Pintard was a few years the CEO of the American Academy of Fine Arts, he was also the founder of the first Savings Bank of New York. He was also one of the first to apply for a free school system. The first session consisted of eleven prominent citizens of the city, including Mayor DeWitt Clinton. At the meeting, a committee was chosen to draft a statute, on 10 December 1804, the club was founded.

As the first catalog was printed in 1813, the club had 4,265 books and 234 volumes of documents of the United States, 119 almanacs, 130 newspaper titles, 134 maps and 30 different representations. In addition, they had collected the beginning of a manuscript collection, different portrait oil paintings and 38 copper engraved portraits.

During the first decades of the club suffered from high debt. In the year the club organized a celebration for the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson in New York harbor. From this event inspired the club applied for financial assistance under the Government of the State of New York. This was promised and should be funded by a lottery. The failure of this lottery led to a debt of the club, who was thus forced to pawn some of his books, which could be triggered again in 1823 but.

The association and its collections moved in the 19th century around often. In 1809, the association and its collections moved to the government buildings of Bowling Grenn, which had been built as a residence for the President of the United States, however, was empty after the move of the capital to Philadelphia. In 1816 the club moved back to the New York building back, that was the poorhouse at City Hall Park earlier. In 1857 the club moved into the first purpose-built for its collections building at the intersection of 11th Street and Second Avenue, where he remained for the next 50 years. The club later acquired a collection of Egyptian and Assyrian art which was later relocated to the Brooklyn Museum. The central part of the present building on Central Park West was completed in 1908.

At the library on the 1st floor there are two exceptional stained glass windows. One is the arrival of Henry Hudson and was produced by Mr. Calvert of the Gorham factory. The other, on the right side of the knowledge, the Huguenot Memorial window, or formal " The revocation of the Edict of Nantes " called. It is one of the most recognized works of M E. Tillinghast, because it's a big beautiful window in an easily accessible location and it bears in the lower left corner of the notice " Copyright July 1908. ME Tillinghast " and it is in the lower right corner with their signature " Mary Tillinghast Fecit 1908 " signed. The window is signed by Russell Sage, who also suffer from other windows of ME Tillnghast has participated. It is probably the most important American glass painter. She has worked for seven years as a partner of John La Farge, thereafter, she became self-employed. Previously, she has worked in the embroidery of the Tiffany Studios. She lived in an elaborately decorated in the French style apartment (# 3 Washington Square N. ), home to a number of famous artists, by William Glackens to Edward Hopper. Hopper use the studio on her apartment, where she died in December 1912. The studio still exists today behind the facade of the NYU School of Social Work.

The collection of the club grew during the 20th century, but renewed financial problems in the 1970s and 1980s forced the club to restrict access to the collections to professional researchers in the early 1990s. In 1988, hundreds of paintings, art objects and artifacts moldy and damaged in a warehouse in Manhattan found. Many of the items were long- term loan to the museum. Grants from city and state again in 1995 allow the public access to the museum, which was led by Betsy Gotbaum. Recent private donations ermöglichtem the club to build an online catalog of its collection. In 2005, the club was one of the 406 art and social institutions that could split a donation of 20 million dollars from the Carnegie Corporation to themselves. This donation was an anonymous donation from Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, allows.

Education and public programs

The museum supports every year with students and teachers, learning programs and learning plans adapted to the special needs of students and teachers, not only during their stay in the museum, but also at their schools. Each year, the museum is host to tens of thousands of students. The New York Historic Society offers programs, such as an object-based learning technique, the students supported their own perspectives of the story to develop, by dealing with the primary sources and material culture goods. Among the new projects, the American Musicals Project heard the teacher supplied with numerous lesson plans that took advantage of all the various musicals to the students almost bring different periods of American history. The New-York Historical Society offers to the public access programs and lectures. In addition, the New-York Historical Society offers a series of " living history " weekends where playful children learn and families through the re-enactment of historical stories and other activities about important historical events.