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Decorative Arts Collection
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Museum of the City of New York
Cost: Suggested Donation
Adults: $9
Seniors, students: $5
Families: $20 (max. 2 adults)
Children 12 and under: free
Members: free
Sun, 10am-12pm: Free
The Museum of the City of New York's Decorative Arts Collection had its origins in the earliest days of the Museum, born in a movement to preserve interiors of great New York homes that were being torn down to make way for new development in the 1920s. Today, the Collection has extensive holdings of furniture, domestic objects, and original interiors that shed light on the daily lives of New Yorkers from different eras.
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New York City Photography, Prints, and Drawings
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Photography, Arts - Drawing/Illustration
Venue: Museum of the City of New York
Cost: Suggested Donation
Adults: $9
Seniors, students: $5
Families: $20 (max. 2 adults)
Children 12 and under: free
Members: free
Sun, 10am-12pm: Free
The Museum of the City of New York's Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Collection documents the built environment of the city and its changing cultural, political, and social landscape from its earliest days to the present. Over half a million views of the city and its people provide a rich visual resource.
Holdings include:
Works by such noted photographers as Berenice Abbott, Jacob Riis, and Jessie Tarbox Beals.
More than 22,000 original prints taken by the Byron Co. in New York between 1890 and 1942. The complete Byron Collection database is searchable online. The database is currently undergoing maintenance and will be available again soon.
The photographic archives of the Gottscho-Schleisner firm, LOOK Magazine, Irving Underhill, Charles Von Urban, and the Wurts Brothers, as well as photographic work commissioned by the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White.
The Harry T. Peters Collection, including the most complete set of hand-colored Currier and Ives prints in existence.
Reginald Marsh's watercolor mural studies for the U.S. Customs House at Bowling Green, work produced by city printmakers under the Federal Art Project, and thousands of topographical engravings, hand-colored lithographs, and rare maps.
Some of New York's earliest photographic views, represented in the waxed-paper negatives of Victor Prevost
Drawings ranging from 18th-century pastel portraits to mural studies by Reginald Marsh from the 1930s. Also included are 19th-century architectural drawings by A.J. Davis; political cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s by Rollin Kirby and John Cassel; architectural renderings by Hughson Hawley; drawings by Rea Irvin; and the archives of the Planning Board of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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New York City Theater and Broadway Collection
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Museum of the City of New York
Cost: Suggested Donation
Adults: $9
Seniors, students: $5
Families: $20 (max. 2 adults)
Children 12 and under: free
Members: free
Sun, 10am-12pm: Free
The Museum of the City of New York's Theater Collection traces the relationship between New York City and theater. It documents theatrical activity in the city from the late 18th century to the present day.
Holdings include:
Original set and costume renderings by designers such as Donald Oenslager, Jo Mielziner, and Robert Edmund Jones
Posters and window cards that record trends in theatrical advertising
17,000 folders documenting local productions since the 1800s
Original playscripts annotated by Eugene O'Neill
More than 5,000 costumes and props
A significant collection of caricatures, drawings, and photographic archives
A major Yiddish theater collection
The heart of the Theater holdings is the John Golden Archive, which consists of approximately 40,000 folders, organized by production, personality, and theater building. The folders contain such materials as photographs, contracts, correspondence, playbills, manuscripts, advertising materials, reviews, obituaries, clippings, sheet music, autographs, souvenir programs, and prompt books with marginalia on blocking and performance.
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New York City Toy Collection
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - History
Venue: Museum of the City of New York
Cost: Suggested Donation
Adults: $9
Seniors, students: $5
Families: $20 (max. 2 adults)
Children 12 and under: free
Members: free
Sun, 10am-12pm: Free
The Museum of the City of New York's Toy Collection documents the social history of childhood in New York City, through everyday patterns of play and the history of consumption. The collection contains over 10,000 toys and amusements used by New Yorkers from the Colonial Period to the present day.
Holdings include:
The Stettheimer Doll House of the 1920s, with its miniature art gallery of original paintings and sculptures by New York's foremost avant-garde artists of the period.
Doll houses and their furnishings, including Ann Anthony's Pavilion (1769); the Shelton-Taylor house (1835); the Brett house (1838); the Goelet house (1845); the Elder house (1865); and Altadena's house (1895) -- made for and used by their families for generations.
Antique dolls; toys, games and puzzles; soldiers, trains and boats; children's books; puppets and toy theaters; optical and transformation toys; banks; animals; cast-iron and tin toys; toy china and silver; and printed and handmade paper dolls and toys.
A small but growing group of toys that were manufactured in the city and which reflect New York City's former prominence as a toy production center and its present role as the business center of the toy trade. In this category are the 400 sample toys and related archives from Clare Creations, a New York City company that was a leader in the soft toy industry between 1940 and 1985.
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New York Fashion, Costumes, and Textiles
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Museum of the City of New York
Cost: Suggested Donation
Adults: $9
Seniors, students: $5
Families: $20 (max. 2 adults)
Children 12 and under: free
Members: free
Sun, 10am-12pm: Free
Museum of the City of New York's Costume and Textile Collection preserves over 25,000 garments and accessories dating from the mid-18th century to the present, all with a documented history linking them to the New Yorkers who wore them. The collection captures the history not only of changing fashion tastes but also of the evolving culture and social mores of the city.
Holdings include:
A legendary collection of clothing worn by fashionable New York women bearing the label of Parisian couturier Charles Frederick Worth.
Significant holdings of 20th-century designs by New York designers, including Claire McCardell, Mainbocher, Vera Maxwell, Norman Norell, and Valentina.
Items identified with city personalities, including John Jay's velvet frockcoat, Al Smith's trademark derby, and a military uniform issued to a New York City National Guard Member who served in Operation Desert Storm.
Fashion accessories including gloves, fans, stockings, shoes and boots, parasols, collars, ties, hats and headresses, and purses as well as costume jewelry.
A chronological reference archive of primary source materials directly related to the history of fashion trends and the fashion industry in New York City. Included are photographs, clippings from periodicals, vintage store catalogues and bound fashion publications.
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New York Paintings and Sculpture
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Museum of the City of New York
Cost: Suggested Donation
Adults: $9
Seniors, students: $5
Families: $20 (max. 2 adults)
Children 12 and under: free
Members: free
Sun, 10am-12pm: Free
he Museum of the City of New York's Paintings and Sculpture Collection includes more than 2500 works that depict New York and New Yorkers from the 17th century to the present.
Holdings include:
Cityscapes by such renowned artists as Childe Hassam, Asher B. Durand, Jasper F. Cropsey, Ralph Blakelock, Reginald Marsh, and Franz Kline.
Portraits of prominent New Yorkers, including works by Michiel van Mierevelt, John Wollaston, John Trumbull, Henry Inman, John Wesley Jarvis, Rembrandt Peale, and Samuel Lovett Waldo. Subjects include George Washington in a work by Gilbert Stuart, Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Moses, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Al Smith, Al Hirschfeld, and jazz greats John Coltrane and Miles Davis. An important group of 170 portrait miniatures augments the collection.
Portrait busts and figural statues, with works by Thomas Crawford, Jo Davidson, Frederick MacMonnies, Hiram Powers, and Adolph Weinman. A small group of architectural bozzetti and preliminary models for monuments are among the institution's major treasures. These include Robert Ball Hughes's surviving plaster study for the ill-fated Hamilton monument destroyed by the Great Fire of 1835 and Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi's early terra-cotta model for the Statue of Liberty.
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