Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on our Bull’s Eye lamp. Check back for a new video next week.
Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on our miniature portrait off Egbert Benson by John Trumbull. Check back for a new video next week.
Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on John Jay’s Barrister Bookcase. Check back for a new video next week.
Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on one a pair of evening gloves from our collection. Check back for a new video next week.
Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on one of our portraits of William Jay. Check back for a new video next week.
Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on an interesting entry in John Jay’s Ledger Book about Chester Tillotson and his son. Check back for a new video next week.
Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on our ballot box. Check back for a new video next week. And be sure to vote!!
Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on Col. William Jay’s Civil War uniform belt buckle. Check back for a new video next week.
Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on a Christmas Card from our collection featuring a photograph of four generations of Jay women. Check back for a new video next week.
We are honored to have loaned from our collections an original letter from Harriet Myers to John Jay II to an exhibit mounted by the Underground Railroad Education Center at the Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence in Albany New York. Harriet’s handwritten one-page letter is a treasure trove of information about UGRR activism, the role of…
We usually offer a series of collections-based programming this time of year, but with the historic house closed in response to COVID-19, we are instead highlighting some collections items in a series of short videos. Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on our portrait of John Jay by John Trumbull. Check back for a…
We usually offer a series of collections-based programming this time of year, but with the historic house closed in response to COVID-19, we are instead highlighting some collections items in a series of short videos. Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on Frederick Douglass’ Eulogy of William Jay. Check back for a new video…
We usually offer a series of collections-based programming this time of year, but with the historic house closed in response to COVID-19, we are instead highlighting some collections items in a series of short videos. Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on Eleanor Iselin Wade’s illustrations in the 2nd edition of My Friend Flicka….
We usually offer a series of collections-based programming this time of year, but with the historic house closed in response to COVID-19, we are instead highlighting some collections items in a series of short videos. Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on our collection of bird paintings. Check back for a new video next…
We usually offer a series of collections-based programming this time of year, but with the historic house closed in response to COVID-19, we are instead highlighting some collections items in a series of short videos. Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on a lovely watercolor in our collection. Check back for a new video…
We usually offer a series of collections-based programming this time of year, but with the historic house closed in response to COVID-19, we are instead highlighting some collections items in a series of short videos. Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on our Meissen Porcelain. Check back for a new video next week.
Alexander Hamilton was considered the architect of America’s Federal Banking system and a fierce advocate of a strong centralized United States (as opposed to a Confederation of States). Of the 85 Federalist Papers – essays arguing to ratify the United States Constitution – Hamilton authored 51, James Monroe wrote 29, and John Jay – our country’s first…
We usually offer a series of collections-based programming this time of year, but with the historic house closed in response to COVID-19, we are instead highlighting some collections items in a series of short videos. Watch Collections Manager Arthur Benware’s video presentation on our urns made by Pierre Phillipe Thomire . Check back for a…