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New Exhibits
Picturing Battle: Memories of War
Picturing Battle presents images of three different wars, produced in three different media, from three different perspectives. Drawn exclusively from the collection of the New York State Military Museum, this exhibition features the dramatic original Civil War paintings of Thure de Thulstrup, a selection of World War II Signal Corps photographs of the Battle of Saipan, and the often humorous drawings of Korean War veteran Steve Jordan. Each group of images is uniquely tied to the conflict it represents and conveys the participants' emotions, thoughts, and feelings and contributes to our memories of war.
D.C. Falls: Uniforms of the New York National Guard
DeWitt Clinton Falls (1864-1937) carefully recorded the distinctive uniforms of many of New York's military organizations and chronicled their histories through numerous paintings, drawings, and articles. This exhibition includes many of Falls' original watercolor paintings together with rare and unique examples of the lavish and colorful uniforms he depicted from such units as the Seventh Regiment (the Silk Stocking Regiment), the Troy Citizens Corps (6th Separate Company) and the 71st Regiment (the American Guard).
Lincoln and New York
October 9, 2009 to March 26, 2010
Lincoln and New York brings to life the period between Lincoln’s decisive entrance into the city’s life at the start of the 1860 Presidential campaign to his departure from it in 1865 as a secular martyr. During these years, the policies of the Lincoln administration damaged and then re-built the New York economy, transforming the city from a thriving port dependent on trade with the slave-holding South into the nation’s leading engine of financial and industrial growth; support and opposition to the President flared into a virtual civil war within the institutions and on the streets of New York, out of which emerged a pattern of political contention that survives to this day.
To begin this story, visitors follow the prairie lawyer eastward to his rendezvous with “the political cauldron” of New York in the winter of 1860. Visitors will learn something of his background and of the rapidly accelerating political crisis that had brought him to the fore: the battle over the extension of slavery into the western territories.
Then, in the six galleries that follow, visitors will discover the interconnections between these two unlikely partners: the ambitious western politician with scant national experience, and the sophisticated eastern metropolis that had become America’s capital of commerce and publishing.
For more information see: https://www.nyhistory.org/web/index.html
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