New-York Historical Society facts for kids
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library located in New York City. It is at the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The group was created in 1804 as New York's first museum. It has exhibitions, public programs, and research about the history of New York and the United States. It focuses on Manhattan.
It has been at its current place since 1908.
Louise Mirrer has been the president of the Historical Society since 2004.
- Shapiro, Gary. “Celebrations of Learning Knickerbocker”, The New York Sun, May 4, 2006
- Regis, Necee. “Don’t Expect to Relax on your visit to NYC”, The Boston Globe, November 21, 2005
- Miller, Dan. “Focus on Education: Fifth Graders Visit Slavery Exhibit”, The Queens Times, November 24, 2005
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Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article New York Historical Society. |
– Paris Documents 9-17, (1745-1774)
Images for kids
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As seen from Central Park West
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Re-enactment of loyalist colonial troops guard the Society building from George Washington's Rebels
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Asher B. Durand, Pastoral Landscape, 1861
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Recruiting poster for the First Battalion, New York Mounted Rifles, New-York Historical Society collection
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11th Street
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Corn Planter, Seneca war chief, by F. Bratoli, 1796
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Frederick Childe Hassam, Flags on Fifty-Seventh Street, oil on canvas, 1918, in the New-York Historical Society's collection
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Costumed troops guard the front hall
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