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Last Seen Profiles
Happy birthday to Hermione Granger! Enjoy this sneak peek of Brian Selznick's original 20th-anniversary cover artwork. Just over 2 weeks until it goes on view in "Harry Potter: A History of Magic," open Oct. 5!
#HarryPotterNYHS
...
Art by Brian Selznick ©2018 by
@Scholastic
Inc.
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Dear
@americanart
, we wanted to brighten your day with these apple blossoms by American painter Martin Johnson Heade.
🌷We hope this
#MuseumBouquet
makes you smile today! 😊
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What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
#OnThisDay
in 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist factory burst into flames—killing 129 women and 17 men.
The tragedy galvanized women across class divisions to fight for better working conditions.
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It's here! It's here! It's here! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ "Harry Potter: A History of Magic" is now on view. Catch a quick peek through the exhibition!
#HarryPotterNYHS
Prefer a bit of a slower tour? Book your ticket at
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Happy birthday, Harry Potter! We've got a special message from Harry Potter illustrators.
We're celebrating by announcing our full schedule of awesome events this fall/winter for "Harry Potter: A History of Magic"! Get event tickets now:
#HarryPotterNYHS
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@MuseumofCityNY
Challenge accepted—incoming! Visibility was a little tough during the 1888 blizzard, too...but on the upside, snow-fort-making was at an all-time high.
#museumsnowballfight
#bombcyclone
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“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
After her friend was lynched by a mob, Ida B. Wells wrote a series of anti-lynching editorials to "arouse the conscience of America." Wells was born
#OnThisDay
in 1862.
Learn more.
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Hey
@MorganLibrary
! We hope these
#MuseumBouquet
botanicals bring a smile to your face. (Don’t mind the stowaway Ruby Throated Hummingbird!) ♥️Hope to see you soon.
🎨John James Audubon
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After Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and fled north in 1838, he took on a new name.
The year of his birth is known as 1818 but he did not know the date. He chose to celebrate his birthday annually on February 14th.
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Poet and Harlem Renaissance icon Langston Hughes was born today in 1902. He published more than 40 books during a career that had a profound impact on American culture.
📷: Portrait of Langston Hughes, 1960. Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection.
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Happy birthday, Professor Pomona Sprout! These leafy pages show a dragon and serpent in a 15th-century herbal—a
#Herbology
encyclopedia—from the
@BritishLibrary
, with advice on how to cure a snakebite! Learn more at "Harry Potter: A History of Magic" this fall.
#HarryPotterNYHS
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"Troll in the dungeon!" On
#Halloween
night in their first year at Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, and Hermione encounter a troll in the girls’ bathroom, which they cleverly defeat. What magical creature intimidates you the most?
#HarryPotterNYHS
Mary GrandPré. US, 2001.
@ScholasticInc
.
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“Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.”
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#OTD
in 1883 the beautiful
#BrooklynBridge
opened. Emily Warren Roebling—who was instrumental in guiding construction after her husband and chief engineer Washington Roebling fell ill—was the first to walk across it. Rumor has it she carried a rooster with her for good luck.
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Hello to our lovely friends
@hirshhorn
, we hope this Tiffany lamp
#MuseumBouquet
shines bright in your feed today. We’re thinking of you! 💐
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"You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
#OTD
in 1924, "Fighting Shirley" Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress, was born in Brooklyn.
📷 With Rosa Parks, c. 1968.
@librarycongress
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Hey
@USNatArchives
! You've been hit in the
#museumsnowballfight
! We're tromping around in the snow here in NYC (but TBH spirits are very high!) Wanna play?
#BombCyclone
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Ticket date announced! Public tickets for “Harry Potter: A History of Magic” go on sale Thurs, April 26, at 12 pm EDT. Visit to get all your ticketing questions answered—then bookmark it so you’re ready to go on April 26!
#HarryPotterNYHS
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Happy birthday
#FrederickDouglass
. Thank you for watching over our Museum, inviting all who wish to learn.
#nyhistory
#blackhistorymonth
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Today’s the day, Harry Potter fans! Get ready: Starting at 12pm EST, tickets will be available for "Harry Potter: A History of Magic," a
@britishlibrary
exhibition, on view at New-York Historical Society Oct. 5, 2018–Jan. 27, 2019. Visit .
#HarryPotterNYHS
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Tickets now available! Visit to book your tickets for "Harry Potter: A History of Magic," a
@britishlibrary
exhibition, on view at the New-York Historical Society from Oct. 5, 2018–Jan. 27, 2019.
#HarryPotterNYHS
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🤔 Think there were no advertisements regarding abortion in the 19th century? Think again. [Thread👇]
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🎂 Our friend
@metmuseum
turns 150 years old today.
We remember when you were just a youngster in these photos! (We do have 60+ years on you after all 😉)
#MyMetStory
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So...we have some news. 🤩👇
The New-York Historical Society, the city's oldest museum, is expanding to include space for the American L.G.B.T.Q.+ Museum, New York’s first museum dedicated to L.G.B.T.Q. history and culture.
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🤩 The Chrysler Building has no bad angles.
This Art Deco masterpiece was *very briefly* the tallest building in the world when it opened
#OnThisDay
in 1930. Explore more views:
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To help fight the spread of the coronavirus, we donated 50 boxes of gloves—gloves normally used by art handlers and conservators—to Weill Cornell Medicine.
We hope this small action helps. Thank you to the healthcare workers who are putting themselves at risk to help others.
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Rosena Disery (1805-1877) stitched this sampler in 1820 as a student at the New York African Free School.
Needlework was added to the curriculum in 1791. The sewing program was modeled on Quaker-run Female Association Schools.
#ArchivesBlackEducation
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Nearly 400K black Americans served in
#WorldWarI
, but few saw combat as white officers believed they were better suited to manual labor. The exception was the Harlem Hellfighters, who spent more time in continuous combat than any other US unit.
#StoriesofService
#BlackCitizenship
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Patron: I want my pet squirrel in my portrait. You know how to paint squirrels, right?
Artist: Y-yeah of course.
#NationalPetDay
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Civil rights activist Ella Baker was born
#OnThisDay
in 1903.
Find out how the 135th Street Library was pivotal in her work alongside hundreds of other young Black Harlemites—artists, activists, & intellectuals.
Visit Women March to explore more!
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Name one woman from US history you wish more people knew about.
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Dear
@metmuseum
, we miss you and wanted to share a little inner
#MuseumSunshine
with you.
We hope you find this Hudson River School painting by Frederic Edwin Church as soothing and hopeful as we do! 😀
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Black New Yorkers celebrated the ratification of the
#15thAmendment
with a procession through the city on April 8, 1870.
The amendment prohibiting racial discrimination in voting inspired banners that read: “No money can purchase our votes.”
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*Breathe in and out.*
Soak in this scene of the Hudson River waterfront. Which elements of this painting do you find the most soothing?
🎨
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"You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."—
#ShirleyChisholm
#OTD
"Fighting Shirley" Chisholm, the 1st black woman in Congress, was born in Brooklyn.
📷: Rosa Parks & Chisholm
@librarycongress
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#ICYMI
there is a heated (no pun intended)
#museumsnowballfight
happening now! Follow along, friends, and stay warm!
#BombCyclone
@MuseumofCityNY
Challenge accepted—incoming! Visibility was a little tough during the 1888 blizzard, too...but on the upside, snow-fort-making was at an all-time high.
#museumsnowballfight
#bombcyclone
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Tag you're it!
@metmuseum
You'll never catch us in our snow fort, courtesy of the 1888 blizzard.
#MuseumSnowballFight
Hey museum friends, do you wanna build a snowman? ☃️
...or throw virtual snowballs at each other? We'll be here sipping cocoa and enjoying the snowy Central Park scenery if anyone wants to play!
#MuseumSnowballFight
cc:
@CentralParkNYC
@NYHistory
@AMNH
@MuseumModernArt
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Hey
@amnh
we think you’re puffin awesome!
Speaking of puffins,
#DidYouKnow
Atlantic Puffins are pretty romantic? Puffins form long-term relationships and both parents incubate the egg and feed the chick, known as a “puffling.” 🐧❤️
#MuseumLoveLetter
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Nearly 10,000 African Americans marched in silence down Fifth Avenue on July 28,1917
Organized by
@NAACP
, it was the largest demonstration of African Americans in NYC’s history.
[Thread]
🎥Universal Animated Weekly/Dawson City Collection, Bill Morrison/Dawson City Collection
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🤩 There are no bad angles of the Chrysler Building.
This Art Deco masterpiece was *very briefly* the tallest building in the world when it opened
#OnThisDay
in 1930. 🔍 Search more in our digital collections:
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You know Rosa Parks—but what about chemist Alice Ball?
Meet author
@VashtiHarrison
via Zoom as she discusses her book "Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History" on August 13.
Free registration:
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"Harry Potter: A History of Magic" opens October 5, but it's already looking rather enchanting at the Museum! To see what's behind the Hogwarts wall, book your tickets at .
#HarryPotterNYHS
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Juliette Noel Toussaint (c. 1786–1851) was a formerly enslaved woman & the wife of a successful Black hairdresser. She helped fund the New York African Society for Mutual Relief's meeting house, which had a secret trapdoor for freedom-seeking enslaved ppl.
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@NBCTimeless
is here! So excited to celebrate
#WomensHistoryMonth
with the season 2 premiere + panel feat.
@abigailspencer
, show creators, and our Center for Women’s History Director Valerie Paley!
#WomenattheCenter
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Hazel Ying Lee, a Women Air Force Service Pilot, & her brother died in WWII. Their family hoped to bury them in a cemetery near their Oregon home, but were prevented by “whites only” rules. After protest, they were able to lay them to rest.
#AAPI
#MemorialDay
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Abolitionist & civil rights activist Frederick Douglass escaped slavery
#OnThisDay
in 1838.
He disguised himself as a free Black sailor with borrowed papers. After traveling by train, steamer, & ferryboat, Douglass arrived safely in NY less than 24 hours after leaving MD.
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On February 17, 1919, 3,000 black American veterans from the 369th Infantry—made up of mostly New Yorkers, hence their nickname the "Harlem Hellfighters"—paraded up Fifth Avenue in valiant return from World War I.
#StoriesofService
#BlackCitizenship
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🎃
#HappyHalloween
! 🎃
Join us & other museums today for a
#MuseumTrickOrTreat
where museums will share their creepy collections, haunted histories, costume inspiration, and more!
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After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
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Wa-bam! Welcome to the
#MuseumFireworksShow
! More than 200 cultural institutions from across all 50 states are sharing fireworks-related gems from their collections—all exploding right now! Follow the hashtag and have a blast scoping out these treasures!
#4thofJuly
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Art imitates life. Or vice versa? 🤔
Take inspiration from our educators who took things to the next level by re-creating works centered on our collections. Masterpieces!
Kionah and her family portrayed Katherine Schmidt's "Almeda's Daughter," 1937.
#MuseumSelfieDay
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✂️ Ever experience a bad haircut? You're in good company.
We challenge you to find the worst haircut in our online painting collection here:
#MuseumBadHairDay
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ICYMI we had a jolly good time last night at the Museum with
@FullFrontalSamB
and
@irin
! Thank you again to these funny, inspiring women for entertaining and enlightening us.
#womenatthecenter
The audio of this program will be made available in the future—stay tuned!
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☀️ Thinking of you
@americanart
! We hope this sweeping landscape by Albert Bierstadt adds a little
#MuseumSunshine
to your Twitter feed.
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100 years before Rosa Parks—there was Elizabeth Jennings.
On July 16, 1854 she was violently prevented from boarding a streetcar labeled "whites only." She publicized the incident, sued the streetcar company, & won.
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👒“Battling Bella” wore a signature hat to poke fun at ideas of women’s proper behavior.
#BellaAbzug
was at the forefront of calls to impeach President
#Nixon
, supported civil & gay rights, & was an advocate of the
#EqualRightsAmendment
. 📷
@librarycongress
#WomenAtTheCenter
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Share your
#CentralParkLove
this Valentine's Day!
Flashback to these winter wonderland views from
@CentralParkNYC
, captured by Irving Browning in the 1930s. What's your favorite park spot?
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Why did this artist of this painting change it after 35 years?
Answer: Needed the dog.
In this painting of his family, Charles Willson Peale repainted bits of the background, parts of his own image—& he added his beloved dog, Argus.
#NationalDogDay
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🎉 Happy 60th birthday,
@Guggenheim
! You're looking good for your age.
📷: Bill Cunningham, ca. 1968-1976; New-York Historical Society, Gift of Bill Cunningham
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Calling all Muggles, witches, and wizards! Mark your calendars to book tickets for “Harry Potter: A History of Magic” on view at N-YHS Oct 5, 2018–Jan 27, 2019. N-YHS Members can reserve tix starting Feb 14. Public tix go on sale in April.
#HarryPotterNYHS
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👋 Hi to our neighbors
@amnh
! We miss seeing you.
Hope this little bit of
#MuseumSunshine
in the form of bright prothonotary warblers brightens your feed.
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One hundred years before Rosa Parks—there was Elizabeth Jennings.
#OnThisDay
in 1854 she was violently prevented from boarding a car labeled "whites only" at the corner of Chatham and Pearl in NYC.
#WomenAtTheCenter
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Explore one of the most famous events in investigative journalism.
Activist Ella Baker and journalist Marvel Cooke went undercover to expose the working conditions faced by Black women in the Bronx during the Great Depression.
#WomenAtTheCenter
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#DYK
Frederick Douglass advocated for U.S. diversity and immigration? In 1869, amidst growing fears of non-Anglo immigrants, Douglass gave a lecture stating: "the outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come."
#FrederickDouglass200
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Knock... knock
@FieldMuseum
&
@AMNH
! We just wanted to swing by with this fang-tastic specimen.
#MuseumTrickOrTreat
!
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Loving this panel of women (plus moderator
@MrJessCagle
, editor in chief of
@people
magazine) talking about the importance of women’s history and showing powerful women historians on-screen—like Lucy (portrayed by
@abigailspencer
) in
@NBCTimeless
!
#WomensHistoryMonth
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#Mood
: In Thomas Cole's 5-painting series "The Course of Empire," civilization appears, matures, and collapses. Cole—an early environmentalist—had a more pessimistic outlook than his peers. The fourth painting in the series, "Destruction," depicts the ruin of a civilization.
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Our
#BlackDolls
exhibition traces the history of Black dolls through more than 200 objects, including handmade and commercially produced dolls, textiles, games, sewing tools, and photographs.
Visit before the exhibition closes on June 5, 2022.
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🎉 BIG NEWS: We will be reopening our building on Friday, September 11, 2020 with safety protocols in place for visitors and staff!
Learn more:
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Hey
@MuseumModernArt
we're shoveling mounds of snow to launch snowballs in your direction!
Wanna join today's
#MuseumSnowballFight
? Show us what you got!
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What is worth standing in this line?
Answer: Vaccinations.
A long line of New Yorkers winds toward the entrance to Morrisania Hospital, where doctors are inoculating against small pox on April 14, 1947.
📷 Bob Gilman/AP
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What a view! 🤩
American photographer and filmmaker Ruth Orkin (1921–1985) was born
#OnThisDay
.
Her photos in our collection contain images of New York City, primarily
@CentralParkNYC
, taken from the window of her 15th floor apartment at 65 Central Park West.
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In 1828, Sojourner Truth moved to NYC. She championed causes like temperance, women’s rights, Black uplift, & pacifism. She took up teaching & preaching in NY’s poorest neighborhoods.
More:
#ArchivesBlackEducation
#ArchivesHashtagParty
#BHM
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@MuseumofCityNY
(We don't even want to know the monthly rate for a snow-fort like that in Manhattan.) Can our buddy join?! He's ready to roll for any shoveling needs.
#museumsnowballfight
#BombCyclone
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Hey
@amhistorymuseum
! You've been hit in the
#museumsnowballfight
! (Things aren't as bad today as the 1947 blizzard, but it's still looking preeetty gray out there.) Wanna play?
#BombCyclone
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@MuseumofCityNY
YIKES! At least W. 47th in 1929 had a little help from some plows. (But some things never change...dirty snow abounds!)
#museumsnowballfight
#BombCyclone
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What we can learn when our record is limited?
Black women have lived in NYC since the Dutch arrived in the 17th c., but what we know about their lives comes in small bits of info.
Find out what's known about
#SenecaVillage
resident Eliza Webster.
#BHM
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#NYHistoryAtoZ
: J is for the Jazz Age.
The Harlem Renaissance redefined arts & culture. NYC became a multifaceted hotbed for jazz by 1930 & some of the most famous jazz performers lived in the city, including Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, & Billie Holiday.
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✨ The Dawn of
@TIME
✨
#OnThisDay
100 years ago, the first issue of Time hit newsstands, and a media empire was born. Read the latest
#FromTheStacks
.
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"Let the world know we want freedom."
#OTD
in 1963, around 250,000 people gathered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
#MartinLutherKing
gave his “I have a dream” speech.
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🐴 Hey *neigh*bor!
Mangin St once ran from Grand Street to Houston Street near the eastern edge of the LES. In the early 20th century, it had tenements, lumber yards, coal pockets, & stables. Harold Roth shot this scene in 1946, when there were still a few stables.
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👏 🏆 Our annual $10k Children’s History Book Prize goes to authors
@ericaadunbar
&
@KDVanCleve
for "Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge."
📚 The book focuses on the fascinating true story of an enslaved woman who dared to escape to freedom from George & Martha Washington.
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In 1913 the Woolworth Building was the tallest (and arguably the most glamorous) building in the world. Today it’s still one of the masterpieces of New York City’s skyline.
#CityViewSunday
📷 Cass Gilbert, 1910-1913
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Grab a slice, it's
#NationalPizzaDay
!
What's your favorite pizza spot in the city? Tell us 👇 🍕 🍕 🍕
📷 Eugene Gordon, 1984.
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NOW OPEN: We've got not one...not two...but *three* new installations! 🤩
1⃣ Grab a rare chance to see the Toussaint family miniatures, three beautiful portraits from the 1820s that depict a family whose members escaped slavery and rose to prominence in 19th-century New York.
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✨📚 Time to crack a book for
#NationalLibraryWeek
!
(Just kidding, these books were handled very carefully). Explore the magic of fore-edge paintings in books from our Patricia D. Klingenstein Library. See more
#FromTheStacks
!
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Phillis Wheatley was the first prominent African American poet & the first internationally recognized American poet.
Her poems addressed the experience of slavery and the politics of the colonies’ imperial crisis with Britain. See her work on view:
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🎾 Time for a little
#WCW
Twitter tennis! We’re serving up our best
@BillieJeanKing
collection objects and photos this morning with the
@usopen
.
Follow our set and join us by replying with your favorite
#BillieJeanKing
memories! 👇
[📷: © AELTC/Michael Cole]
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#AugustaSavage
opened the 1st art gallery dedicated to the sale & exhibition of Black art in 1939.
📷: With Ernestine Rose, Roberta Bosley Hubert, and her sculpture James Weldon Johnson, 1939,
@SchomburgCenter
#5WomenArtists
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🎃 Join us this
#Halloween
for a special
#MuseumTrickOrTreat
!
👻 We'll be trick-or-treating on Twitter with some of our favorite museums! 🍬 Join us as we share creepy collections, haunted histories, & more. Get ready for some devilish fun!
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#OnThisDay
in 1883 the beautiful Brooklyn Bridge opened. At the time, the engineering marvel was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
📷 William J. Roege, 1924
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Dear
@amhistorymuseum
, we love you a Hamil-TON.
Be our Valentine? Got a nice *ring* to it, wouldn’t you say?
This ring has a lock of Hamilton’s hair, made for Nathaniel Pendleton (Hamilton’s second during the famous 1804 duel).
#MuseumLoveLetter
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Join us to reflect on the tragedy of 9/11 and the resilience of New Yorkers who came together in the aftermath.
On view is a video compilation of 170 photos from "here is new york," set to "On the Transmigration of Souls" performed by the
@nyphil
.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get her own statue in Brooklyn.
Stay tuned for more on "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg"—opening at our Museum next year!
@TheArtNewspaper
#WCW
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Herman Bjorkman also had a listen on the family wireless, or radio as we call them today.
#NationalRadioDay
Photo ca. 1905-09
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