Thursday, May 18, 2017

The Celebration That Wasn’t: The 1914-1915 Peace Centenary

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The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent by Amédée Forestier, 1914 Everyone loves a centennial celebration, and in 1910 a group of American an...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Transforming the Debris of War: Trench Art of World War I

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Soldiers resting on a pile of shell cases after the Battle of Passchendaele, September 1917 Imperial War Museums   © IWM (Q 2915) The te...
Monday, April 10, 2017

The American Red Cross in the First World War

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When the German Army invaded Belgium in August 1914, it sparked a massive humanitarian crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Belgian civilians w...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Helen C. Gunsaulus: Collector and Curator

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Frank and Helen Gunsaulus, 1915 Frank W. Gunsaulus is a recurring character in the story of the Alice T. Miner Museum, appearing most re...
Friday, March 10, 2017

A Partner in Collecting: Emma B. Hodge

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Publicity photo of Emma B. Hodge After Alice T. Miner herself, the individual who probably did the most to shape the way the museum look...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

“A Negro girl five Years old named Phillis”: Slavery in Northern New York

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Detail of quilt made by Anna Moore Hubbell. Textile ca. 1785-1800 This post begins with a return to an item from the Alice’s collection ...
Monday, February 13, 2017

William Lee and George Washington

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Washington and His Family, engraved by J. Sartain, published by Wm. Smith, Philadelphia, ca. 1850 One of the first things that visit...