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100 Years with the 19th Amendment - Museum of the City of New …
Aug 21, 2020 · 2. The suffrage movement and the 19th amendment discriminated against many women of color. In New York, the suffrage movement attracted a diverse range of women, including Sarah J.S. Garnet, who founded the Equal Suffrage League in Kings County in the late 1880s and organized for the vote through the National Association of Colored Women, and Mabel Lee, who led a contingent of Chinese and ...
Myths surrounding the origin of the Statue of Liberty
Jan 28, 2014 · Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904). Closeup of Statue of Liberty, Museum of the City of New York. 42.421. The sculpture above, accession number 42.421, is cast in bronze, and strongly resembles the Statue as we know it today, aside from the fact it measures just over 21 inches in height. The statue is signed and dated “Bartholdi 1875.”.
Petrus Stuyvesant - Museum of the City of New York
Artist Unknown, Petrus Stuyvesant, Date Unknown. Oil on Panel, 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.; New-York Historical Society, 1909.2. Petrus Stuyvesant is best known as New Netherland's longest, most influential, and last Dutch governor, having served until the English overthrew the colony’s Dutch administration and renamed it New York in 1664.
Exhibitions - Museum of the City of New York
On View Art Deco City: New York Postcards from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection Featuring over 250 postcards as well as decorative arts, fashion, photography, drawings, and architectural models, Art Deco City will immerse visitors in the dazzling style which defined the modern city.
Visit Us - Museum of the City of New York
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Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance - Museum of the City of New York
Mar 2, 2021 · The Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe Distinguished Lectures in Urban History. Dive into the Harlem Renaissance in this four-part series of live virtual talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jeffrey C. Stewart.Stewart will begin each session with an illustrated presentation exploring a different major art form -- from poetry and visual art to theater -- of this famous movement in African ...
Nativists and Immigrants | Museum of the City of New York
Between 1820 and 1860, 3.7 million immigrants landed in New York Harbor—at a time when the city’s population numbered less than one million. No laws existed to regulate or curtail the flow of newcomers. Economic and political unrest propelled people across the Atlantic, including more than half a million Irish fleeing famine from 1845-1851.
About the Museum - Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York was founded in 1923 by Henry Collins Brown, a Scottish-born writer with a vision for a populist approach to the city. The Museum was originally housed in Gracie Mansion, the future residence of the Mayor of New York. Hardinge Scholle succeeded Henry Brown in 1926 and began planning a new home for the Museum.
Young Lords - Museum of the City of New York
Young Lords. “¡Basta ya!”—”Enough!” was the feeling of Young Lords member Mickey Melendez and other East Harlem activists. It was the summer of 1969, and the group had blocked traffic on 110th Street with piles of garbage to protest inadequate sanitation services. They had already asked the city for brooms to clean their neighborhood ...