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	New York State Historical Societies, New York History Net
		Founded in 1863, the Brooklyn Historical Society is a nationally renowned urban history center dedicated to the exploration and preservation of documents, artwork and artifacts representative of Brooklyn's diverse cultures past and present.
		Ossining Historical Society - organized in 1931 to educate the public in the history and traditions of Ossining on Hudson and vicinity.
		Roosevelt Island Historical Society - The mission of the society is to Preserve the history of the island thru educational projects, lectures, tours, exhibits and outreach to the community and others interested in this unique community; Restore and preserve the landmark structures on the island; Collect and maintain an archive of written material and memorabelia.
	www.nyhistory.com /links/historical_societies.htm (1861 words)

	New Jersey Frontier Guard - Research - New York Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		New York, NY The New-York Historical Society is the city's oldest museum and one of the most distinguished research libraries in the country.
		And now the Historical Society is presenting its collections to the public through a series of new exhibitions, publications and education programs designed for both children and adults.
		The Historical Society Library, one of the city's research treasures, offers rare, often unique, materials that tell the story of New York, of the founding of the United Stated and of many other important moments in American history.
	www.frontierguard.org /Archives/NYHS0000.html (328 words)

	Magazine Antiques: A history of the New-York Historical Society
		Entrusted to the society by a descendant of the patriarch-governor, the fragment joined an admixture of evidence--written, visual, and physical--instructive of history's shallow hold on modern memory.
		The New-York Historical Society's role as a safe haven for such cultural keepsakes of civilization's onrush through New York and the developing nation was not confined to relics and antiquarian writings, however.
		Founded, a decade after the first state historical society was established in Massachusetts, the society stood on the frontlines of analogous organizations being formed to consolidate and authenticate evidence specific to each state's relationship to the American Revolution.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_1_167/ai_n9525330 (1184 words)

	New-York Historical Society on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Founded in 1804, the society is a repository of art, artifacts, and literature relating to American, especially New York, history.
		The society's educational programs include changing exhibitions of American cultural subjects, lectures by noted scholars and historians, and a large library facility providing extensive material to scholars on early America.
		Parris Brothers Holding Group, Inc. is Pleased to Announce the Induction of Lennox and Lester Parris to New York University's Sir Harold Acton Society.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/n/newy1orkh1.asp (493 words)

	The Upper West Side Book: Central Park West: The New York Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The New York Historical Society is the second most important cultural institution on Central Park West after the American Museum of Natural History that is directly across from it on 77th Street.
		The New-York Historical Society's new home was quickly outmoded and overcrowded, however, in part because its very completion stimulated new bequests from donors, most notably thirteen large stone bas-reliefs from Nineveh that were the 1858 gift of James Lenox.
		At first the society's trustees fought for the State Arsenal site but by 1868 their battle was lost and the uptown locale, equivalent in size to approximately six square blocks, was designated by the state legislature as the New-York Historical Society's new home.
	www.thecityreview.com /uws/cpw/nyhist.html (1122 words)

	Operations: New York Theater
		New York City During the War For Independence with Special Reference to the Period of British Occupation.
		History of New York During the Revolutionary War, and of The Leading Events in the Other Colonies at that Period, by Thomas Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province.
		Historical Memoirs of William Smith, Historian of the Province of New York; Member of the Governor's Council and Last Chief Justice of that Province Under the Crown; Chief Justice of Quebec.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/revbib/nyo.htm (1920 words)

	The Huntington Historical Society
		The Huntington Historical Society was founded in 1903 in connection with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the European settlement of Huntington, a town of roughly 100 square miles on the north shore of New York's Long Island with a population of more than 190,000 people.
		The Society shares the legacy it is preserving by sponsoring educational festivals, a lecture series, school programs and summer educational programs.
		Lectures on a variety of historical topics are presented once a month in the spring and fall.
	www.huntingtonhistoricalsociety.org (231 words)

	Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society (American Memory, Library of Congress)
		They include recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides.
		The Library of Congress and the New-York Historical Society do not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers.
		The New-York Historical Society were supported by the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html (276 words)

	Gotham Gazette -- Cultural Enlightenment and the Art of Paying The Light Bill
		As the president of The New-York Historical Society, one of the city's most venerable cultural institutions, I was one of the most vocal critics of Mayor Giuliani when he attempted to withdraw funds from the Brooklyn Museum because he did not approve of an exhibition on view.
		New York is a cultural capital of the world, and its monuments to the arts deserve renewal and expansion.
		Because the Historical Society was not a CIG member, in addition to finding money to restore a decaying building and provide adequate care for collections, I also had to pay the light and heat bills, which are no joke in a four-story Beaux Arts behemoth.
	www.gothamgazette.com /commentary/75.gotbaum.shtml (995 words)

	WESTERN NEW YORK RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Home
		he Society is restoring to its original state, the former Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway (Baltimore and Ohio) passenger station and freight depot (built in 1912 and 1913) in Orchard Park, New York.
		The Society is also registered with the New York State, Department of State, and The Attorney General.
		The Society is a fully qualified organization under 501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and all donations to the Society are tax deductible.
	www.trainweb.org /wnyrhs/homeFrame1Source1.htm (590 words)

	Wired New York Forum - New-York Historical Society
		The New-York Historical Society celebrates its two hundredth anniversary this year, having survived, in recent decades, the threat of bankruptcy and the selling off of part of its collections.
		The questions fielded by the Historical Society’s team of three librarians, and the answers gleaned from the society’s collection of two million manuscripts, three hundred and fifty thousand books and pamphlets, and fifteen thousand maps and atlases, are the stuff of dinner-table pontification and barroom bets.
		The film’s researchers have already been to the Historical Society, seeking plans of the façades of every building along the stretch of Fifth Avenue to be featured in the movie, a request that Nazionale suggested might be best fulfilled at the Municipal Archives, where copies of such photographs can be ordered for forty dollars apiece.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=5608 (982 words)

	ABC News: First Ladies' Exhibit Opens in New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The mahogany writing desk that belonged to former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt at which she wrote her syndicated newspaper column from 1935 to 1962, is part of the "First Ladies of New York and the Nation" exhibit at the New-York Historical Society, Monday, March 21, 2005.
		NEW YORK Mar 22, 2005 — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' grade school report cards and Eleanor Roosevelt's license to pack a pistol are part of an exhibit on the lives of the two iconic first ladies that opened Tuesday at the New-York Historical Society.
		Hillary Rodham Clinton another first lady who is spending her post-White House years in New York was the keynote speaker at a luncheon on Monday to celebrate the openings of the exhibits, which are across the hall from each other at the historical society's Central Park West facility.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=603797 (453 words)

	Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society (American Memory, Library of Congress)
		This portfolio of etchings is from the New-York Historical Society's Caricature and Cartoon File in the Department of Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections.
		New York units that are well represented include the 132nd and 139th New York Infantry Regiments.
		The New-York Historical Society collected some of the posters as they were published during the Civil War.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhsarcpp.html (805 words)

	New-York Historical Society in The NYC Insider: an Insider's Guide to New York City
		The New-York Historical Society, which was formed in 1804, runs the oldest museum in the city and is the second-oldest historical society in the country (the oldest is the
		Be warned though, that the Historical Society is in many respects what some people might call a "typical museum," meaning that its exhibits are static with little interactivity and that there are a lot of them.
		You can also get to the Historical Society by taking the C train to 81st Street and walking down Central Park West until you reach the museum, located on 2 West 77th Street.
	www.theinsider.com /nyc/museums/1nyhist.htm (660 words)

	New York Historical Society - New York Art World
		Founded in 1804, the New York Historical Society is an educational resource, open to the public, that unites under one roof a world-class museum and a premier research library.
		As the oldest cultural institution in New York, the Society collects and preserves a wide array of objects and offers an unparalleled range of resources.
		The New York Historical Society presents the little-known story of slavery in our city, a story that reveals the rich cultural legacy produced by enslaved people and honors New Yorkers - fl and white - who fought to erase this "peculiar institution" from the city and state.
	www.newyorkartworld.com /museums/nyhistoricalsociety.html (290 words)

	New York History Net - A Project Of The Institute For New York State Studies
		Established in 1971, the Alliance is a non-profit organization which provides support, advice and training to historical societies, museums, historians and others interested in history in upstate New York.
		The Upstate New York American History Education Alliance provides history teachers in over 90 school districts in thirteen counties with professional development opportunities through its Upstate New York Teaching of American History Project.
		This curriculum has been developed in partnership with New York State certified educators, and introduces learning objectives within the framework of the history of the New Netherland colony.
	www.nyhistory.com (759 words)

	Art/Museums: Intimate Friends, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand and William Cullen Bryant at the New York Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The New York Historical Society is notable for two great national treasures, "The Course of Empire" series of oil paintings by Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School of Painting, and Audubon’s original bird watercolors.
		Foshay writes in her catalogue essay, "shared the belief that nature, particularly nature in the New World, resonated with overtones of meaning." "It was a sacred place, where true communion could bring not only joy in the beauty of the outdoors, but also enlightenment.
		When Cole returned in 1832, he was welcomed by an editorial in The New York Post by Bryant, then its editor, that boasted that the United States had artists "equal to any in Europe" and that its landscape rivaled that of the Old World for artistic inspiration.
	www.thecityreview.com /durand.html (2143 words)

	American Irish Historical Society
		Founded in 1897 in Boston by 50 American Irishmen determined to combat nativist prejudices and distortions, the Society later moved to New York, where in 1940 it acquired its present Beaux-Arts townhouse.
		A chief aim of the Society was adopted as a motto for it's seal: That the World May Know.
		In consequence, part of the Society's modern mission is to educate new generations about their own heritage and about Irish contributions to America's culture and history.
	www.aihs.org (217 words)

	new york historical society - new york historical society Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Western New York Railway Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the rich railroad heritage that the Western New York area once and still...
		New York Herpetological Society is one of the largest and oldest herp societies in the United States.
		The Geneva Historical Society is a history museum in the Finger Lakes region of New York State which focuses on the history of Geneva, NY, historic...
	mygreatnewyork.info /new-york-historical-society (1028 words)

	Historic Richmond Town \| Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Historic Richmond Town is New York City’s living history village and museum complex.
		Established in 1958, Historic Richmond Town is a joint project of the Staten Island Historical Society, an independent nonprofit cultural organization, and the City of New York, which owns the land and the buildings and supports part of its operations with public funds from the Department of Cultural Affairs.
		The Staten Island Historical Society also receives support from the New York State Department of Education, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Institute of Museum Services, the Office of the Borough President, and private contributions from corporations, foundations and individuals.
	www.historicrichmondtown.org (284 words)

	Guide to the Jessie Tarbox Beals Photograph Collection[1900-1940](Bulk 1904-1920)PR 004Processed by Jenny Gotwals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Shortly after her arrival in New York, Beals began to travel to areas outside of the city to take photos of military trainees, rifle meets, and other events.
		Her "ability to hustle" and keen news instinct, honed earlier in Buffalo, paid off, as did the fact that she was a woman.
		Most New York photographs are of Greenwich Village and of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration held in the fall of 1909.
	dlib.nyu.edu /affiliates/NYHS/findingaids/Bealsb.html (5521 words)

	New York City Lithographs \| Prints from the New-York Historical Society
		From contemporary histories we learn that the greatest street problems of Victorian New York were not the horse-drawn vehicles and carts, nor the pimps, drunks and whores, but garbage, dog-shit, horse-shit, dead dogs, dead horses, and often dead people.
		The twin towers were a travesty, shoehorned into existence by the New York Port Authority and Nelson Rockefeller with the compliance of an indifferent city administration and a superbly mediocre architect.
		It's the famous double bind: We are cheered that the two vulgar pillars are gone forever, only to be saddened that it had to happen in such a damnable way, for such a diabolical cause.
	www.ralphmag.org /DL/new-york-prints.html (628 words)

	Geneva Historical Society
		he Geneva Historical Society, a non-profit educational corporation, is committed to preserving and interpreting the collective heritage of Geneva, New York and its environs.
		At the Geneva Historical Society Museum the most frequent offerings are exhibits exploring the people, places, and events in Geneva's history, and lectures, workshops, and children’s activities on related topics.
		On occasion, special events and fundraisers are conducted at one of the Society's other properties - The National Historic Landmark, Rose Hill Mansion; the beautiful Balmanno Cottage; or the Mike Weaver Drain Tile Museum at the John Johnston House.
	www.genevahistoricalsociety.com (399 words)

	The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
		The book, published by the prestigious New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, is a compilation of the “Information Wanted” advertisements, from 1825-1844, for missing relatives or friends that appeared in The Truth Teller, the first Catholic Newspaper in the city of New York.
		Titled New Yorkers and the Military, this conference is intended to initiate as well as enhance the knowledge of researchers seeking records of New Yorkers who served in the military units or in related areas, as well as provide insight into the personal experience of military history and life.
		The Society has published a complete transcript of the proceedings of John Burnet as Coroner of the City and County of New York from 1748 to 1758.
	www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org (853 words)

	NYPL, The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy
		The New York Public Library's Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy is one of the largest genealogical and local history collections open to the public in this country, and, as such, it is one of the most heavily used divisions in the Library.
		Federal census records for all states, 1790-1900, may be consulted on microfilm at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library.
		The Library is a depository for New York State D.A.R. Genealogical Records Committee publications of New York Bible, cemetery, and vital records.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/lhg/research.html (1341 words)

	Spring trip to the New York Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Opened just last November, this Center is located on The Historical Society's renovated fourth floor and holds a unique display of nearly 40,000 museum objects.
		Following this tour, you will have time to see other current exhibitions at The Society, a New York institution for close to 200 years.
		The bus departs from The Stamford Historical Society, 1508 High Ridge Road at 9:00 a.m.
	www.stamfordhistory.org /trip1_2001.htm (293 words)

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		The Huguenot Historical Society invites you to journey back in time by exploring the historic house museums of Huguenot Street and the nearby Locust Lawn mansion and farm complex.
		Huguenot Street, a National Historic Landmark, is the site of a collection of colonial and early National period stone houses owned and operated as historic house museums by the Huguenot Historical Society in the Village of New Paltz, New York.
		The Huguenot Historical Society receives general operating support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
	www.hhs-newpaltz.org (366 words)

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