A Christmas Carol: One of those quaint, simple, affecting, humoursome things
Holidays evolve — for better or worse. And while there is reason to bemoan the creep of commercialism into every niche of the holiday season, such disappointment is not necessarily as recent as one...
View ArticleAlmost an Alleghanian: or how N-YHS tried to change the nation’s name to the...
Given the New-York Historical Society’s reluctance to change so much as the hyphen in its own name (see “It Can Hyphen Here: Why the New-York Historical Society Includes a Hyphen”), it may come as a...
View ArticleHorse Thieves Beware!
This post is by Brenna McCormick-Thompson, Print Room Reference Assistant In the autumn of 1815, a group of concerned citizens in Westchester County, New York banded together to put a stop to one of...
View ArticleN-YHS Institutional Archives Finding Aids Now On-line (Part 1)
This post was written by Project Archivist Larry Weimer. Over the course of its 211 year history, the New-York Historical Society has been steadily accumulating the records of one of New York and...
View ArticleWonders of the Hidden Edge: Fore-edge Paintings from the N-YHS Library
What are fore-edge paintings? Grab the nearest book and fan the pages on the outer edge, opposite the book spine. This is the fore-edge of a book. Chances are you will see fanned-out pages and nothing...
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