Donation Dialogue with Jessica Pearl, Collections Manager at Raynham Hall Museum By Nicole Menchise Earlier this month I was attending the opening of the latest exhibit at Raynham Hall Museum ("American Dream - The Elusive Promise of the Pursuit of Happiness" running through September 15), when my colleague and friend Jessica Pearl pulled me aside to admire a new portrait that has been added to their extensive collection. I turned the corner into the 19th century parlor and came face to face with an exquisite 12” x 10” oil on canvas portrait of a young woman believed to be Miriam Doughty Underhill (at left) at approximately seventeen years of age. Miriam Doughty Underhill was born in Oyster Bay in 1820 to Benjamin Townsend Underhill and Eliza Weeks. Miriam was named after her grandmother Miriam Weekes [sic], who herself sat for five separate portraits to give to each of her five children – according to Weekes family history. You might be wondering who the painter was. Per the collection record provided by Jessica Pearl, the five portraits of Miriam Weekes were painted by William Sidney Mount. Could it be that this latest acquisition, unsigned, be one created by Mount’s brush as well? Pearl says yes, but admits that more research must be done. She did find a passage in the monograph “Painter of Rural America: Williams Sidney Mount” written by Alfred Frankenstein in 1968. In it there is a diary entry from Mount that reads, “Year 1838…three portraits of Mrs. Meriam [sic] Weeks and one portrait of Miss Meriam [sic] Underhill, Oyster Bay Long Island, $200.” Long Island Museum has another portrait and sketches of the Underhill women from that time period in their collection, by which to compare, but one fascinating detail is that the young Underhill women purportedly painted by Mount are wearing red shawls. I asked Pearl how this acquisition came to be. She told me that she has alerts set up with auction houses and galleries to let her know when items associated with Oyster Bay, Townsend, or Weekes appear for sale. Townsend and Weekes being surnames that are intertwined with the historic home’s history. I joked and asked about eBay, but she said not to dismiss any outlet where one might find a legitimate artifact, “you never know.” This portrait of Miriam Doughty Underhill came up for auction through Swan Auction Galleries in Manhattan. The museum’s Collections Committee met to discuss what to do. With the help of private funds, the portrait was purchased in September of 2023 and accessioned into the collection. “Everyone is enthused to have the portrait of Miriam Doughty Underhillby the acclaimed William Sidney Mount in the museum's collection. We're thrilled to reunite both portraits of her and her grandmother, Miriam Doughty Weeks, in the same parlor.”
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Transcending Barriers: Opening Archives, Opening Minds
Portrait of Miriam Doughty Underhill c. 1838 courtesy of Raynham Hall Museum
May/June 2024 Volume 31 Issue 3
Cover image: "Barbara and Jim Sullivan wedding, May 1958." Courtesy of Montauk Library (Montauk Oral History Interviews) accessed on New York Heritage Digital Collections website.
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Ask An Archivist: Archival Description For Beginners May 29, 2024; 1:00 PM-2:30 PM (Zoom) Register: https://lilrc.org/event-5706648 This is a continuation of the series from LILRC's Nicole Menchise that discusses the principles of collecting and maintaining archives. Archival Description is more than using adjectives and one's own perceptions about an object to determine its context like the subject of a photograph. This program will provied an overview of the different elements as laid out by the Society of American Archivist's (SAA) Describing Archives a Content Standard, better known as DACS. DACS may have been designed for consistancy in creating Finding Aids, but these standards can be applied to describe collection materials you are cataloging from the general to the specific whether you are using a material management software or a spreadsheet. Recommended for individuals who are new to processing archives. 8mm Film Digitization and Preservation with Robert Anen June 11, 2024; 1:00 PM-2:30PM (Zoom) Register: https://lilrc.org/event-5701697 In addition to photographs, families captured their memories on 8 millimeter (mm) film beginning from the late-1930s into the 1980s (until videotape dominated the American consumer market). By the 1960s, it was superseded by Super 8mm film which allowed for a wider image to be captured. These films were generally captured at home around the holidays, at various celebrations, on vacation, or during any sort of leisure activity. There’s a good chance that your family or the library/historical organization you work at, also has films like this of your hometown. Now is the chance to pull them off the shelf and get them digitized. LILRC's Project Archivist Robert Anen will offer a program on how LILRC members can now submit digitization requests for both 8mm films and Super 8mm films. He will show you how we digitize films at LILRC, how to identify 8mm film formats when you encounter them in your collections, how to determine if you are looking at a film or a tape, how to properly store your films, what goes into inspecting a film before digitization, and show you the digitization process of a film in real time. Safe Labeling and Marking of Historic Items Ideally, every object in a historic collection has a unique identifier, and that identifier is attached to the item securely, discretely, and with products that "do no harm." LILRC's Digitization and Archives Coordinator, Nicole Menchise, will lead a hands-on workshop to teach different techniques for labeling and marking objects with their identifiers. This will include objects, textiles and paper-based archives. Pros and cons will be discussed and debated. Recommended for individuals working in an archival repository and ‘lone-arrangers’. Supplies will be provided Limited to 8 people per workshop One person per organization is encouraged This will not be a hybrid workshop and will not be recorded Light refreshments will be offered NOTE: Small amounts of wheat paste will be used during portions of this program.
More workshops for safe Labeling will be scheduled this summer in other locations on Long Island. Send your questions to nmenchise@lilrc.org.
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Suffolk Cooperative Library System (Blue Room) Monday, June 24th, 2024 10:30 AM-12:30 PM Register: https://lilrc.org/event-5709560
Jericho Public Library (Community Room) Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 10:30 AM-12:30 PM Register: https://lilrc.org/event-5712258
Upcoming LILRC Workshops for Historic Collections
29th Annual Long Island Archives Conference Connecting to Your Community Monday, October 21, 2024 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM SUNY Old Westbury Campus - Student Union Building Registration opening soon.
Ask An Archivist.... I have a question about a specific flag in my care. It is a guidon, which was given to our church in 1976. I don't know if it is a replica, made then, or is actually from the Revolution. It has been displayed inside the church ever since. Out of direct sunlight, but still - light. I have noticed that the silk? is beginning to split. What should I do? Take it to a conservator? Without seeing the guidon in person, I am fairly certain that this is a reproduction - probably made in 1976 - as so many objects, furnishings, and textiles that were associated with the Revolution and American history were being recreated in honor of the bicentennial. Regardless, you are going to have to speak with a conservator or with the folks at The New York State Battle Flag Preservation Project (but they might only work with items donated to the state museum or the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center). Since you are dealing with silk, I am not surprised that the guidon is splitting (or shattering), as this is a very common outcome for silks that have been exposed to too much heat or light. A conservator could add a backing to the guidon in order to stabilize it, but it should never be displayed again for any length of time. Someone should make a reproduction to hang in the church - but even that will fade considerably over time. First, you need to find out the item's authenticity, and its rarity. I would try to speak with someone from the NYS Military Museum to get some ideas about how to go about finding that information. Then I would speak to a textile conservator who has experience with shattering silk. Find one in your area by going to the American Institute for Conservation website: Find a Professional. Interesting article about conserving shattered silk from the Henry Ford Museum - https://history.nebraska.gov/ford-conservation-center-stabilizing-shattering-silk/ Best of luck. I hope to hear back when you know more about the item and its prognosis. If you have questions, feel free to contact Nicole Menchise, Digitization and Archives Coordinator at nmenchise@lilrc.org or call 631-675-1570 x2004. You can also use the ESLN Ask The Archivist service. Go to www.esln.org/ask-the-archivist.
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"Greetings from Long Island, New York" courtesy of Northport-East Northport [Public Library] Postcard Collection (nyheritage.org)
Save the Date!
Long Island Maritime Museum image courtesy of https://www.iloveny.com/
Hello gentle members of LILRC and elsewhere, Last month I wrapped up a successful Accessing Archives Program (AAP) partnership with the Long Island Maritime Museum (LIMM) in West Sayville. I spent six weeks digitizing cassette tapes from their Baymen Oral History Group Collection. Beginning as early as April 16, 1977, John M. Kochiss (1926-2017), a researcher and author of maritime related books and articles, began recording oral histories of baymen of the Great South Bay while working for the Suffolk Marine Museum, now the Long Island Maritime Museum. By the time Kochiss started making these recordings, the occupations and culture of Long Island’s baymen had, for the most part, disappeared but the baymen themselves were still alive and willing to help preserve their histories. Beginning in May of 1980, Kochiss began to gather the baymen he had been recording separately at their homes and the baymen’s oral history group began to form. Over the course of the 1980s the group was constantly growing, changing as other baymen joined, and shrinking as older baymen began to pass away. The group would meet once a week, usually on a Wednesday at the museum to reminisce and discuss their experiences. Kochiss recorded each session onto an audio cassette tape to preserve the memories of these people who had navigated and worked the local bays for generations and to use them as research tools in the future. The group also gradually grew to include other types of fishermen, boatmen, ferrymen, occasional bootleggers, boat builders, and sometimes even family members of these individuals. Additionally, many of the interviewees were of Dutch descent. Kochiss was also assisted by other staff members of the museum that include Peggy Holsten, grant administrator, researcher, archivist and exhibit developer; Ruth Dougherty, research librarian and photographer, and Gertude Welte, assistant to the museum’s director, Roger Dunkerley. By the early 1990s, group recordings became more scarce and Kochiss reverted back to recording people one at a time as he did for the first few years before the oral history group began meeting at the museum. By the end of the 1990s, recordings ceased almost completely with the last known recordings taking place on August 1, 2002, still under the supervision of Kochiss. The entire collection is composed of four hundred and eighty-two audio cassette tapes and one video tape. These extensive oral histories provide extremely valuable information regarding Long Island’s fishing and shellfishing industries, historic environmental conditions, climate change and pollution, and a primarily extinct regional maritime culture. The recordings are particularly unique in that most focus on baymen who were active on the Great South Bay along the South Shore of Long Island throughout the first half of the 20th century. The accents of these individuals are also equally as rare. Inside the digital collection you will also find images from a recording session, a cookbook from 1980 that includes some recipes from the wives of the baymen, and a videotape of the only known video recording of an oral history group session. The collection is available here on New York Heritage: Baymen’s Oral History Group (1977-2002) | New York Heritage (nyheritage.org)
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LATEST FROM THE ACCESSING ARCHIVES PROGRAM By Robert Anen
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The Long Ago Literary Corner Recently released and upcoming books about Long Island history
Recent books about the American Revolution Dishonored Americans: The Political Death of Loyalists in Revolutionary America by Timothy Compeau (University of Virginia Press, 2023) Purchase at the University of Virginia Press, Amazon, or order from your local book store. "With the final words of the Declaration of Independence, the signatories famously pledged to one another their lives, their fortunes, and their "sacred Honor." But what about those who made the opposite choice? By looking through the analytical lens of honor culture, Dishonored Americans offers an innovative assessment of the experience of Americans who made the fateful decision to remain loyal to the British Crown during and after the Revolution. Loyalists, as Timothy Compeau explains, suffered a "political death" at the hands of American Patriots. A term drawn from eighteenth-century sources, ‘political death’ encompassed the legal punishments and ritualized dishonors Patriots used to defeat Loyalist public figures and discredit their counter-revolutionary vision for America. By highlighting this dynamic, Compeau makes a significant intervention in the long-standing debate over the social and cultural factors that motivated colonial Americans to choose sides in the conflict, narrating in compelling detail the severe consequences for once-respected gentlemen who were stripped of their rights, privileges, and power in Revolutionary America." Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War By Friederike Baer (Oxford University Press, 2022) Purchase at the Oxford University Press, Amazon, or order from your local book store. "Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war, members of the German corps, including women and children, spent extended periods of time in locations as dispersed and varied as Canada in the North to West Florida and Cuba in the South. They shared in every significant British military triumph and defeat. Thousands died of disease, were killed in battle, were captured by the enemy, or deserted. Collectively, they recorded their experiences and observations of the war they fought in, the land they traversed, and the people they encountered in a large body of letters, diaries, and similar private and official records. Friederike Baer presents a study of Britain's war against the American rebels from the perspective of the German soldiers, a people uniquely positioned both in the midst of the war and at its margins. The book offers a ground-breaking reimagining of this watershed event in world history."
FOC Gifting Day invitation to Suffolk County Historical Societies and Museums
On April 8, 2022, the Long Island Library Resource Council Digitation and Archive Coordinator, Nicole Menchise, began instructing a disparate group of volunteers for the Friends of Connetquot River State Park Preserve (FOC) in Oakdale, NY. Brought together by their love of the park’s history and the vision of recently elected FOC President, Janet Soley, a dozen working and retired adults embarked on the intriguing adventure into the world of historical archiving. Nicole turned former teachers, accountants, librarians and retirees from all walks of life into well trained amateur archivists to preserve a large amount of historical data for the FOC archive or to return to the appropriate owner. When Dowling College in Oakdale closed in 2016, the new owner found approximately 200 bankers boxes of books and historical documents left behind. The defunct WK Vanderbilt Historical Society stored much of its data in Dowling College with whom they had hoped to co-found a Long Island South Shore Learning Center which never materialized. The Friends of Connetquot purchased the boxes, uninspected, at auction to preserve whatever history was included. It was assumed that most of the boxes would contain history relating to the local area which was not the case. The deaccession had begun. The newly formed History Project Team began its work sorting, organizing, documenting, recording and archiving the contents of the nearly 200 boxes of historical documents which had been in storage since the dissolution of the WK Vanderbilt Historical Society in the 1990’s. The major guideline was “if it’s not about park history, don’t keep it.” After a few months into the project Nicole presented another in-depth training to the now experienced History Team which included accession numbering, use of acid free file folders and plastic sleeves. Two years after the first archival training , on April 14, 2024, the Friends of Connetquot hosted a “Gifting Day” for the Suffolk County Historical Societies and museums for whom historical documents had been preserved for the past thirty years by the Vanderbilt Historical Society, Dowling College and the friends of Connetquot River State Park Preserve. Nearly every one of the two hundred boxes archived by the FOC History Team has been transferred to the corresponding organization to continue to protect and preserve local history for posterity.
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LILRC Archiving News from the Friends of Connetquot River State Park Preserve By Ritamarie Weigand, FOC Director of Historic Preservation
Connetquot River State Park Preserve storage area in “the attic.”
The FOC History Team
Two years after the initial training by Nicole Menchise, FOC President, Janet Soley, welcomes Suffolk County historians and curators to Gifting Day on 4/14/24 in the Clubhouse at the Connetquot River State Park Preserve in Oakdale, NY.
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Results from the New York State History Day State Contest This year, the Long Island Library Resources Council became a sponsor of Long Island History Day, an annual competition that begins regionally, moves up to the state competition, and culminates in the national competition which will be held June 9–13, at the University of Maryland. The Long Island contest was held at Hoftra University on March 24th with 606 students creating 330 projects and 120 volunteer judges. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the competition and the theme is Turning Points in History. This event is special because it promots scholarship, collaboration and encourages these students to pursue their love of history in both technical and artitistic ways. Long Island History Day Regional Coordinator Allison Soble remarks, "To see so many young people passionate about history really inspires me. With so many choices available to them to become involved with choosing to participate in National History Day makes me optimistic about our future. " LILRC extends our congratulations to our national qualifying individuals and teams, state finalists, and all student who participated in NYSHD 2024! Performance Category Junior Individual Performances First Place, National Qualifier: Raja Ram Mohan Roy: The Sati Practice Abolishment by Johanna Ginu (Wheatley School) Second Place, National Qualifier: Maria Stewart: Voice of Freedom, A Turning Point for African Americans’ and Women’s Rights by Angel Shah (Jericho Middle School) Junior Group Performances First Place, National Qualifier: Sparking A Turning Point in Worker’s Rights: How the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire led to legislative changes for America’s working class by Eliana Lau, Neha Paul, Maya Purohit, Aanika St. Jean, and Zarah Zohir (Herricks Middle School) Senior Individual Performances Second Place, National Qualifier: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense: A Turning Point in American Democracy by Athul Santhosh (Herricks High School) Third Place, Alternate: A Bright Golden Haze on the Meadow: Oklahoma! as a Cultural Turning Point in Broadway Musical History by Chloe Leshnower (Half Hollow Hills High School East) Senior Group Performances Third Place, Alternate: One Country Two Systems: A turning point in Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom by Preston Chad, Kaylee Luo, and Dylan Uttamchandani (Herricks High School) Documentary Category Junior Individual Documentaries First Place, National Qualifier: The Color of Blood: Dr. Charles Drew’s Discovery, A Turning Point in Blood Preservation by Jay Patel (Jericho Middle School) Second Place, National Qualifier: The Final Solution of the Jewish Question: A Tragic Turning Point in Human Rights by Zachary Toback (Jericho Middle School) Junior Group Documentaries First Place, National Qualifier: A Crisis of Conscience: the Children’s Crusade of Birmingham by Jack Basner and Jimmy Eichner (Wheatley School) Third Place, Alternate: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a Turning Point in American Bioethics by Ryan Hasan and Rumaisa Hasan (Jericho Middle School) Senior Individual Documentaries First Place, National Qualifier: A Woman’s War: Martha Gellhorn’s Path of Journalistic Transformation and Empowerment by Madeline Rong (Wheatley School) Third Place, Alternate: "The Daisy” Ad: An Explosion in Political Advertising by Alyssa Bhagan (Wheatley School) Senior Group Documentaries Second Place, National Qualifier: Fallout: Nuclear Technologies After the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Edward Lee, Lucy Liu, David Noh, and Maximilian Peng (Herricks High School) Exhibit Category Junior Individual Exhibits Second Place, National Qualifier: Test-Tube Babies: How In-Vitro Fertilization Changed Family and Fertility Forever by Anne Kelly (North Shore Middle School) Junior Group Exhibits First Place, National Qualifier: The Birmingham Children’s Crusade: A Turning Point for Human Rights by Hannah Chusid, Maria Khan, and Nishita Srirama (Jericho Middle School) Second Place, National Qualifier: A Turn Toward Morale: the U.S.O by Erin Falk, Tehila Frogel, Orly Leibowitz, and Daniella Oppenheimer (Hebrew Academy of Long Beach) Senior Individual Exhibits First Place, National Qualifier: The Fed: The Banking System that Saved the U.S. by Harvir Singh (Herricks High School) Third Place, Alternate: Hollywood Prefers Blondes by Vivian Huang (Herricks High School) Senior Group Exhibits Second Place, National Qualifier: The Fight for Reproductive Rights: Griswold v. Connecticut by Rania Gupta and Sanika Patel (Herricks High School) State Finalist: Margaret Sanger, “The Woman Rebel,” A Turning Point in Women’s Autonomy by Harnoor Joneja, Summer Malik, and Faye Safir (Jericho Senior High School) Paper Category Junior Papers Second Place, National Qualifier: Inchon Landings: A Turning Point in American Foreign Policy by Sam Tae (Jericho Middle School) Website Category Junior Individual Websites First Place, National Qualifier: A Heart of Gold: The Work of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams: A Turning Point in Medical History by Ananya Kavi (Jericho Middle School) Junior Group Websites Second Place, National Qualifier: Everyone Loves Lucy: Lucille Ball Changes the Channel in Television by Gabby Cohen, Maia Kret, Yakira Sanker, Samara Schiowitz, and Illyana Spitz (Hebrew Academy of Long Beach) Third Place, Alternate: Edward Oscar Heinrich: Turning the Tide of Forensics by Ryan Chan and Yifan Gao (Jericho Middle School) State Finalist: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Igniting a Turning Point for Workers Rights by Kimberly Chen and Abbie Cheng (Jericho Middle School) Senior Individual Websites First Place, National Qualifier: The Red Summer: A Turning Point in Racial Violence by Metta Pollio (North Shore Senior High School) Second Place, National Qualifier: A Turning Point in the Battle against Big Tobacco: Surgeon General’s Smoking Gun Fires by Isaac Chen (Jericho Senior High School) Senior Group Websites First Place, National Qualifier: Pong’s Genesis: The Pixel Paddle that Turned History’s Scoreboard by Raphael Croog, Gavin Finkel, and Jacob Torczyner (Davis Renov Stahler) Third Place, Alternate: The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906: The Reinvention & Enhancement Of The Food Industry by Jessica Bree, Emely Herrera Rivas, and Heileen Torres (Huntington High School)
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A Turn Toward Morale: the U.S.O by Erin Falk, Tehila Frogel, Orly Leibowitz, and Daniella Oppenheimer
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Welcome the new LILRC's GOVERNMENT RESOURCES AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE page. Sharing online portals and forums for government agency and publication information. New resources every newsletter. EPA Announces Online Collection of Environmental Justice Resources The Environmental Justice Clearinghouse will help the public access tools and resources as part of President Biden’s ambitious environmental justice agenda April 23, 2024 Contact Information EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov) WASHINGTON — Today, April 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Environmental Justice Clearinghouse, a first-of-its-kind online collection of resources related to environmental justice. Directed by President Biden’s Executive Order on Revitalizing Our Nation's Commitment to Environmental Justice for All, the Environmental Justice Clearinghouse will help the public access federal and non-federal resources online as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s ambitious environmental justice agenda. EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights will continue to add information to the clearinghouse on a rolling basis and welcomes input and any submissions from the public for review and potential inclusion. The preliminary resources listed on the Environmental Justice Clearinghouse were submitted by agencies from across the federal government, including funding opportunities, screening and mapping tools, and technical assistance. The Environmental Justice Clearinghouse features searchable categories to simplify results for the public to ensure a more efficient and accessible process for accessing information related to environmental justice. Information describing the activities of the members of the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council to address issues relating to environmental justice. Information on technical assistance, tools, and resources to assist communities with environmental justice concerns in building capacity for public participation. Copies of training materials developed by the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council or its members to help individuals and employees understand and carry out environmental justice activities. Any other information deemed appropriate by the EPA Administrator, in coordination with the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council. Learn more about environmental justice at EPA. Read about the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council and the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government commitment to environmental justice. For up-to-date information about Environmental Justice funding opportunities, events, and webinars, subscribe to the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights’ listserv by sending a blank email to: join-epa-ej@lists.epa.gov. Follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @EPAEnvJustice. See full press release here: Environmental Justice Clearinghouse Press Release
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The New Amsterdam History Center presents Shipwreck and Salvation - The Wreck of The Prince Maurice 1657 On the night of March 13, 1657, as a Nor’easter raged, a Dutch ship,The Prince Maurice, slammed into the coast of Fire Island. Aboard were 129 souls – passengers, crew and Dutch West India Company soldiers. Ashore were Indigenous people on their coastal night watch, listening to the ship crash against the shoal. Until now the story of this dramatic Long Island shipwreck and rescue has been known only to a handful of historians. But the rescue on an ice laden beach has been part of Indigenous history for 400 years. Now, thanks to a generous grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, the New Amsterdam History Center’s groundbreaking Mapping Early New York project has combined old fashioned research and new technology including AI, and a new window on history has opened wide for children, their parents, historians, map nerds, and computer gamers. Kathryn Curran, Executive Director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation noted: “We are delighted to support projects that push the boundaries of history, culture, and the digital world.The New Amsterdam History Center’s integration of 3D models, original documents, Encyclopedia, and maps is an entirely new way to experience the past.” “This project follows in the footsteps of our recent 3D Model created for the New-York Historical Society’s installationNew York Before New York: The Castello Plan, on view March 15 – July 14, 2024", explained Esme E. Berg, Executive Director. “We are delighted to bring it to Long Island on May 16, 17 and 18, when members of NAHC’s research team will be in Southampton, Port Washington and Shelter Island to offer lively, richly illustrated presentations including interactive maps and 3-D models." Presenters: Toya Dubin, Mapping Early NY Project Director & Drew Shuptar-Rayvis, Algonkian Historical Consultant Shelter Island Historical Society: Thursday, May 16,1:00 - 2:30PM Port Washington Public Library: Friday May 17, 7:00 - 8:30PM Southampton History Museum: Saturday May 18, 11:00AM - 12:30PM Admission is free of charge; space is limited. Reservations are required. Major Funding for this project provided by: Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, the First Families of New York,Ken Chase, the Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Port Washington Library’s Nautical Advisory Council, and the supporters of the New Amsterdam History Center. Press Contacts: Ina Lee Selden&Toya Dubin info@newamsterdamhistorycenter.org
Long Island Archives - May/June 2024 Editor: Nicole Menchise, Digitization and Archives Coordinator LILRC - 627 N. Sunrise Service Rd., Bellport, NY 11713, www.lilrc.org.