New-York Historical Society

NEW YORK, NY, August 27, 2013 —Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America,
Two new books take the study of American material culture to the masses by highlighting the country's iconic objects--a fragment of Plymouth rock, a presidential button, a soldier's footlocker--and us
As Oscar Wilde put it, "The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth." The New-York Historical Society is set to open part one of a major, three-part exhibition featuring all 474 original