BGuthrie Photos: NY -- NYC -- New-York Historical Society -- Exhibit: New York & The Nation (lower level)

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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. NYHSNL_161221_06.JPG: The Games We Played from the Liman Collection Gift The games that entertained Americans from the 1840s to the 1920s offer a fascinating window on the values, beliefs, and aspirations of a nation undergoing tremendous change. During this period the United States experienced a shift from predominantly agrarian to urban living, strained to absorb millions of new immigrants, and ascended to international commercial power. The American home, no longer the heart of economic production, became the center of education, entertainment, and moral enlightenment. Middle-class families -- with expanded leisure time as well as rising income levels -- embraced leisure pursuits in the home and encouraged their children to play games that would develop skills and provide moral instruction. During the same period, several significant cultural and technological developments combined to produce a revolution in the manufacture of American board games. Most important were advances in chromolithography, a color printing process perfected in the 1870s that created bold, richly colored images at affordable prices. A typical middle-class household of the time could readily purchase such games, the prices of which ranged from 25 cents for small boxed card games to three dollars or more for elaborate editions. New York City, the nation's business capital, emerged as the leading center of American chromolithography and the hub of the nation's vigorous board game industry. By the mid-1880s, New York City-based McLoughlin Brothers (active 1858-1920) dominated the industry with sumptuous, eye-catching packaging that was frequently more compelling that the games it contained. The Games We Played presents a rotating selection of American board and table games drawn from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection of more than five hundred examples generously donated to the New-York Historical Society in 2000.
2. NYHSNL_161221_10.JPG: Objects Tell Stories Highlights from the Permanent Collection
3. NYHSNL_161221_12.JPG: Draft wheel, ca 1863
4. NYHSNL_161221_17.JPG: Moritz Furst and US Mint Major General William Henry Harrison Military Medal, 1824-1885
5. NYHSNL_161221_25.JPG: Morris Neuwirth Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1940
6. NYHSNL_161221_29.JPG: John Rogers The Slave Auction, 1859
7. NYHSNL_161221_33.JPG: Anna Pottery Snake Jug, 1871
8. NYHSNL_161221_39.JPG: Jack Stewart Graffiti door, 1970s
9. NYHSNL_161221_43.JPG: Politics & the City Great Events. Simple Objects. Ordinary Lives. Simple things link us to moments in history -- political, cultural, and communal -- that touched ordinary people and shaped the city we know today. An 1806 leather fire bucket recalls life in a city lit by open flames. As far back as Dutch New Amsterdam, families tossed buckets into the street during fire alarms as neighbors formed bucket brigades. The wooden draft wheel (used in a lottery to draft Civil War soldiers) recalls the 1863 New York City Draft Riots. Whether you accept official figures of 105 people killed or research suggesting many more died, it remains the worst riot in US history. A stoneware jug festooned with swirling snakes honors political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who skewered corrupt politics of Tammany Hall in the 1860s and 1870s. The silver Tiffany train throttle that drove the city's inaugural subway ride in 1904 is not an everyday item. But what would New York be like -- then or now -- without that subway?
10. NYHSNL_161221_45.JPG: Museum -- Children's History -- Museum
11. NYHSNL_161221_49.JPG: Tiffany Studios Poinsettia table lamp, ca 1906-1910
12. NYHSNL_161221_52.JPG: Light & Warmth Light Up the Town! New York has long been the city that never sleeps. But what did it look and feel like after dark two centuries ago? The clues are right here. Lanterns. Candle boxes. A silver wick cutter and candlesnuffer. Elegant 18th-century Dutch-American fireplace tiles (mounted here on a reproduction mantle). They evoke a time when families depended on fire for light and warmth, when homes were alive with flickering flames and shadows danced in every corner. These things illustrate the evolution of the lighting technology that all New Yorkers relied on. Yet the beautifully designed and crafted Tiffany lamp tells an additional story. Rich and poor may have used similar tools to dispel the darkness, but wealthy families could afford to have everyday household necessities such as lighting made into exquisite, artistic, expensive luxuries.
13. NYHSNL_161221_54.JPG: Canned soup, 1906-1930
14. NYHSNL_161221_57.JPG: Box of toy soldiers, 1870-1910
15. NYHSNL_161221_61.JPG: Chamber pot, 1770-1800 Pewter
16. NYHSNL_161221_63.JPG: Toasting rack, 1760-1800
17. NYHSNL_161221_65.JPG: Home Everyday Things Reveal Everyday Lives For centuries, people used bootjacks to take off their boots without having to touch them. What does that tell you about the condition of streets in early New York? Everyday things and household objects tell eloquent stories of times long gone. They make us wonder how people, both rich and poor, once lived. Did wealthy families in the 19th century have the same luxuries in their homes as today's rich? These family portraits and silver objects offer clues. Did kids play differently 100 years ago? Find the toy soldiers and see how they're familiar ... and not. A 1,200-piece Tiffany dinner service from the 1870s features a gilded ice cream dish -- a literal expression of the Gilded Age. Yet a humble ceramic cockroach trap, whose slippery interior walls prevented bugs from climbing out, shows that some things never change.
Description of Subject Matter: New York & The Nation in The Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History
Ongoing
Collection Highlights and New York and the American Experience
Explore the story of New York and America in the Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History. Highlights include:

Mounted on the building’s original 1904 columns are grand digital screens displaying a continuous, thematically co-ordinated slide show of treasures from the New-York Historical Society’s collections. The west face of the columns features individual stations, incorporating interactive touch screens and museum artifacts, presenting six themes in American history which are found interwoven with the history of New York. Projected on dramatic flat screens affixed to six structural columns, the array of objects and images functions as visual signage that demonstrates to our visitors the depth of New-York Historical's collections.
Funding for the columns provided by Bloomberg

New York Rising:
The showpiece of the space occupies a forty-two-foot wall facing Central Park West, and illustrates New York’s critical contribution to the founding of the United States. Covering the period from the American Revolution through to the New-York Historical Society’s 1804 founding, a contemporary interpretation of a nineteenth-century salon-style display uses some of New-York Historical’s most treasured objects and cutting-edge technology to convey the historical narrative.
Out of the ashes of the British occupation of New York and Evacuation Day in November 1783 at the American Revolution’s end, New York emerged as the first capital of the United States. It was where George Washington was inaugurated the first president; where the Northwest Ordinance, mandating westward expansion, was debated and signed in 1787; where the essays comprising the Federalist Papers advocating the ratification of the U.S. Constitution were written (by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay); where the First Congress sat in 1789; and where the Bill of Rights was introduced. As the place where Hamilton conceived of an American financial system, New York also became the American business capital of the country. Against the philosophical and intellectual framework of the Enlightenment, the New Yorkers who participated in the country’s founding were immersed in an often-fractious atmosphere of debate, intellectual discourse, and political experimentation. In 1804, as this historical moment was passing, the New-York Historical Society was founded, motivated by an expressed need to collect items pertaining to the history of the state and of the nation, as well as the mission to capture and interpret not only the revolutionary and Federal eras, but the years to come. In so doing, New-York Historical deliberately participated in the creation of a self-consciously American culture.

Leah and Michael Weisberg Monumental Treasures Wall:
A 10-foot-high display case in the Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History showcases large-scale maps, architectural drawings, documents and other works on paper that previously could not be exhibited because of their size and light sensitivity.

History Under Your Feet:
Under visitors’ feet, the Smith Gallery also features nine porthole-like floorcases displaying objects found by avocational archaeologists and other professionals seeking history below the ground of New York City. Objects include arrowheads, military buttons, bullets and a colossal oyster shell excavated at an extant nineteenth-century tavern.
Funding for History Under Your Feet provided by Con Edison

here is new york:
New-York Historical also displays a rotating selection from the approximately 6,200 photographs comprising the powerful here is new york collection of images taken in New York on and in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. The collection echoes the Founding New Yorkers theme of resilience, renewal and transformation emerging from the ashes of catastrophic events. Accompanying the photography installation will be a large fragment of a fire truck destroyed during the 9/11 attack.

Pop Shop ceiling by Keith Haring:
A ceiling mural by Keith Haring hangs above the admissions desk. The work is taken from the interior of the Pop Shop, which Haring opened in SoHo in 1986 to sell shirts, posters, and other merchandise reproducing his artwork. He painted the shop’s entire interior in black-and-white. The mural was a gift from the Keith Haring Foundation upon the store’s closing in 2005.
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