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Myths surrounding the origin of the Statue of Liberty
WEBJan 28, 2014 · Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904). Closeup of Statue of Liberty, Museum of the City of New York. 42.421. The sculpture above, accession number 42.421, is cast in bronze, and strongly resembles the Statue as we know it today, aside from the fact it measures just over 21 inches in height. The statue is signed and dated “Bartholdi 1875.”.
Exhibitions - Museum of the City of New York
WEBOn View Art Deco City: New York Postcards from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection Featuring over 250 postcards as well as decorative arts, fashion, photography, drawings, and architectural models, Art Deco City will immerse visitors in the dazzling style which defined the modern city.
Nativists and Immigrants | Museum of the City of New York
WEBBetween 1820 and 1860, 3.7 million immigrants landed in New York Harbor—at a time when the city’s population numbered less than one million. No laws existed to regulate or curtail the flow of newcomers. Economic and political unrest propelled people across the Atlantic, including more than half a million Irish fleeing famine from 1845-1851.
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From Dazzling to Dirty and Back Again: A Brief History of Times …
WEBAlthough the Times moved to a new location, the tower still stands as a focal point in Times Square.Similarly, two statues have remained prominent monuments in the area. Father Duffy Square encompasses the northern triangle of Times Square.
"A Future Worth Living?" - Museum of the City of New York
WEBGirls Sweeping on Earth Day, April 22, 1970. Courtesy Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University. Earth Day united various constituencies and agenda—from elementary school anti-litter campaigns and college campus “teach-ins” to mothers who sought cleaner air, protestors against pesticides, and proponents of population control—under the banner of “a future ...
Thomas Nast takes down Tammany: A cartoonist’s crusade against …
WEBAs the election cycle gets into full-swing, so do the pundits, journalists, and political cartoonists. While modern readers intrinsically link newspapers and political cartoons, the use of cartoons in the American media was minimal until Thomas Nast popularized them in the 1860s and 1870s.
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - Museum of the City of New York
WEBNov 14, 2016 · When a fierce fire broke out at a factory near Washington Square in lower Manhattan in 1911 – what we today refer to as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire -- it combined sensationalistic horror and new politics. In a city accustomed to catastrophes, it might have just been a three-day story that faded away but for the fact that it marked a ...
South Bronx - Museum of the City of New York
WEBIn the decades after the new Cross-Bronx Expressway bisected the South Bronx in the 1950s, abandonment and arson claimed large swaths of the borough. Facing diminishing revenues, some landlords were accused of burning their own buildings. The neighborhood also suffered from declining employment, middle-class “white flight,” discriminatory ...