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Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society are made possible by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, the Saunders Trust for American History, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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Saving Washington

March 08, 2017 - July 30, 2017

First Lady Dolley Madison is often remembered as a hostess who saved the White House portrait of George Washington from British vandalism during the War of 1812. But in fact,...

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Thomas Jefferson: The Private Man, from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society

April 07, 2017 - July 16, 2017

One of American history’s protean figures, Thomas Jefferson’s role as a private citizen is as defining as his personae as founder, president, and political standard-bearer. A...

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Taming Traders: Origins of the New York Stock Exchange

March 31 - June 11, 2017

On May 17, 1792―under a buttonwood tree, the site of street trading at the time―24 stock brokers signed an agreement that regulated aspects of trading, thus creating the New...

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Big Bird: Looking for Lifesize

April 07, 2017 - June 11, 2017

At the dawn of ornithology, 16th-century artists aspired to portray birds lifesize, but the largest paper available measured roughly 11 x 16 inches, allowing only smaller...

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A Hudson River School Legacy: The Newman Bequest and Other Gifts

March 24, 2017 - June 04, 2017

Over some two decades, Arthur and Eileen Newman assembled a collection of landscapes and still lifes painted between 1845 and 1880. Inspired by the natural beauty of the Hudson...

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Covering the Twentieth Century: Time and Life Magazines

November 15, 2016 - May 14, 2017

For a century, the covers of Time and Life magazines have captured, in a single image, the zeitgeist of American culture, politics, and technology.

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Tattooed New York

February 03, 2017 - April 30, 2017

For more than 300 years, New York has played a central role in the development of modern tattooing, from its origins in Native American body art to the introduction of the...

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“I Am King of the World”: Photographs of Muhammad Ali by George Kalinsky

December 11, 2016 - March 26, 2017

For more than 50 years, George Kalinsky has captured iconic moments in sports as Madison Square Garden’s house photographer—a job he landed, in part, after bluffing his way...

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Muhammad Ali, LeRoy Neiman, and the Art of Boxing

December 11, 2016 - March 26, 2017

Who could "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee"? Muhammad Ali was The Greatest—he even said so himself. Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, he was a three-time...

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The First Jewish Americans: Freedom and Culture in the New World

October 28, 2016 - March 12, 2017

How did Jewish settlers come to inhabit—and change—the New World? Jews in colonial America and the young United States, while only a tiny fraction of the population,...