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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.”.
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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.
Thomas Nast takes down Tammany: A cartoonist’s crusade against …
Sep 24, 2013 · As the election cycle gets into full-swing, so do the pundits, journalists, and political cartoonists. While modern readers intrinsically link newspapers and political cartoons, the use of cartoons in the American media was minimal until Thomas Nast popularized them in the 1860s and 1870s.
Collections - Museum of the City of New York
The Museum holds approximately 750,000 objects in its collection, and while many of them are used in support of our special exhibitions, not all of them can be on view at once. You may also explore nearly 190,000 objects from our collections, now available as part of our ongoing digitization project. We will be adding more material to the ...
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 ...
From Dazzling to Dirty and Back Again: A Brief History of Times …
Although the Times moved to a new location, the tower still stands as a focal point in Times Square.Similarly, two statues have remained prominent monuments in the area. Father Duffy Square encompasses the northern triangle of Times Square.
"A Future Worth Living?" - Museum of the City of New York
Girls Sweeping on Earth Day, April 22, 1970. Courtesy Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University. Earth Day united various constituencies and agenda—from elementary school anti-litter campaigns and college campus “teach-ins” to mothers who sought cleaner air, protestors against pesticides, and proponents of …
The Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic - Museum of the City of New York
Jul 1, 2014 · Museum of the City of New York. Wurts Bros. Collection. Gift of Richard Wurts, 1956. X2010.7.1.195. It’s a sweltering July evening in 1915 and the lights have just come up after the finale of a Ziegfeld Follies show at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42 nd Street. You dread walking out into the muggy night and long for a cool escape.