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Description of Pictures: Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection
October 28, 2016 - February 26, 2017
See the New-York Historical Society transformed this holiday season with the installation of a spectacular exhibition of treasures from the renowned Jerni Collection of model trains, scenic elements, and toys, owned by New-York Historical. The dynamic display appeals to all ages, showcasing the beauty and allure of toys from a bygone era.
The Holiday Express exhibit unfolds over a broad swath of our first floor, featuring pieces from the Jerni Collection that transform the space into a magical wonderland. Theatrical lighting, an ambient audio “soundscape,” and other visual effects immerse visitors in an enchanting holiday experience. The exhibition begins at the West 77th Street entrance, where trains appear to roar through the Museum with the help of four large-scale multimedia screens. A 360-degree mountainous landscape is on view in the Judith and Howard Berkowitz Sculpture Court, featuring artifacts grouped into ten scenes.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NYHSHX_161221_010.JPG: The Railroad, New York, and American Toys The Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869, linked the East and West coasts of the United States to each other and to the markets of the world. Other cross-country railroads quickly followed. This vast network helped to secure New York City's position as the principal East Coast port and industrial center of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. World War I (1914-18) ended the German dominance of Western toy manufacturing. Wartime embargoes and postwar importation tariffs on German goods gave the United States toy industry the opportunity to come into its own. American toy train manufacturers like Ives and New York's own Lionel found expanded domestic markets in the booming economy of the Roaring Twenties and beyond.
2. NYHSHX_161221_043.JPG: 1829 George Stevenson's "Rocket" combines several steam innovations. Of ten entrants, it is the only locomotive to successfully complete time trials held in England. The Rocket averages 12 mph and can haul 13 tons.
3. NYHSHX_161221_045.JPG: 1804 Richard Trevithick develops the first successful locomotive service in Europe. It lasted for only three trips!
4. NYHSHX_161221_052.JPG: Holiday Express Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection The New-York Historical Society's Jenni's Collection contains over 10,000 European and American toys and trains created between 1850 and 1950. The Collection comprises rare train and toys produced by European manufacturers, including Marklin, Gebruder Bing, and Rock & Graner and American firms, like Carlisle & Finch, Ives, and New York's own Lionel. Assembled over 50 years by Jerry and Nina Greene, this encyclopedic collection includes unique handmade and historically significant European and American items, including depictions of actual rail stations, bridges and buildings, some in New York City. Purchased by the New-York Historical Society in 2014, selected items from the Collection are displayed here for the first time. Additional Jerni Collection toys are on view downstairs in the DiMenna Children's History Museum.
5. NYHSHX_161221_060.JPG: Holiday Express Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection
6. NYHSHX_161221_061.JPG: Timeless Trains Toys are universal. Every child is given at least a few, and time blends and gilds memories of play, learning, affection, and family -- especially during the holidays. Toys are also topical and value-laden: the Jerni Collection epitomizes a golden age of toy manufacture and transportation. Toys from the 1850s to the 1950s amused children while teaching them how clockwork, steam power and electricity really worked. Though the railroad has declined, toy trains remain popular and will continue to delight children and the young at heart for generations to come.
7. NYHSHX_161221_063.JPG: Timeless Trains Toys are universal. Every child is given at least a few, and time blends and gilds memories of play, learning, affection, and family -- especially during the holidays. Toys are also topical and value-laden: the Jerni Collection epitomizes a golden age of toy manufacture and transportation. Toys from the 1850s to the 1950s amused children while teaching them how clockwork, steam power and electricity really worked. Though the railroad has declined, toy trains remain popular and will continue to delight children and the young at heart for generations to come.
8. NYHSHX_161221_064.JPG: R. Bliss, US Cruise, 1906
9. NYHSHX_161221_071.JPG: Marklin, Jupiter, 1906
10. NYHSHX_161221_073.JPG: Gertrude Bing, Cotton mill, 1900-10
11. NYHSHX_161221_094.JPG: People can crawl underneath and look out through the dome
12. NYHSHX_161221_113.JPG: Holiday Express Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection Assembled over 50 years by Jerry and Nina Greene, this encyclopedic collection includes unique handmade and historically significant European and American items, including depictions of actual rail stations, bridges and buildings, some in New York City. Purchased by the New-York Historical Society in 2014, selected items from the Collection are displayed here for the first time. Additional Jerni Collection toys are on view downstairs in the DiMenna Children's History Museum.
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