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Chapman Museum

Fashion History Program at Wiawaka Center for Women July 23rd

July 19, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Fort William Henry Carriage House in 2023Wiawaka Center for Women on Lake George is celebrating its 120th year with a program on fashion history. Re-enactors portraying Wiawaka founders Katrina Trask (1853-1922) and Mary Fuller (1862-1943) will welcome guests from 2 to 4 pm on July 23 to celebrate the evolution of women’s fashions from their era. [Read more…] about Fashion History Program at Wiawaka Center for Women July 23rd

Filed Under: Arts, Events, History Tagged With: Chapman Museum, Warren County Historical Society, Wiawaka

Conservation Grant Awardees Announced

July 6, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Conservation Grant Awardees The New York State Council of the Arts and Greater Hudson Heritage Network Grant Program now offer three opportunities for collecting institutions in New York State including Conservation Treatment Grants, Preservation Supplies Grants, and Site Assessment Grants. [Read more…] about Conservation Grant Awardees Announced

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Allegany County Historical Society, Anderson Falls Heritage Society Museum, Bedford Historical Society, Black Rock Historical Society, Boscobel House, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Buffalo History Museum, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Cayuga Museum, Chapman Museum, Chemung County Historical Society, Chenango County Historical Society, Clarkson Historical Society, Clinton County Historical Association, Columbia County Historical Society, Conference House Association, Dansville Area Historical Society, Davis Town Meeting House Society, DIA Center for the Arts, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance, East Hampton Historical Society, Edward Hopper House Museum, Everson Museum of Art, Friends of Rock Hall, Galen Historical Societ, Genesee Country Village, Grants, Greater Hudson Heritage Network, Greater Patchogue Historical Society, Hallockville Museum Farm, Hammond Historical Museum, Hendrick I. Lott House Preservation Association, Historic Richmond Town, Historic Saranac Lake, Historical Society of the Nyacks, Howland Stone Store Museum, Iroquois Museum, Kent-Delord House Museum, Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society, Lewis Latimer House Museum, Lindenhurst Historical Society, Livingston County Historical Society, Long Beach Historical and Preservation Society, Long Island Maritime Museum, Long Island Museum, Middlesex Heritage Group, Minerva Historical Society, Morris Historical Society, Museum at Bethel Woods, Museum of Arts and Design, Museums, Nassau County Museum of Art, National Comedy Center, National Lighthouse Museum, National Museum of Racing, New York City Fire Museum, Niagara County Historical Society, North Castle Historical Society, Northport Historical Society, Old Westbury Gardens, Oneida Community Mansion House, Onondaga Historical Association, Pawling Historical Society, Planting Fields Foundation, Port Chester Historical Society, Raynham Hall Museum, Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History, Roberson Museum and Science Center, Rocky Point Historical Society, Rome Historical Society, Sardinia Historical Society, Schoharie County Historical Society, Sea Cliff Village Museum, Skaneateles Historical Society, Sonnenberg Gardens, Southampton History Museum, Southold Historical Society, Steel Plant Museum of Western New York, Strong National Museum of Play, Suffolk County Historical Society, The New York State Council of the Arts, Three Village Historical Society, Ticonderoga Historical Society, West Bloomfield Historical Society, Westhampton Beach Historical Society

$100K Awarded To Museum Educators

October 31, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Pomeroy FundThe Pomeroy Fund for NYS History has awarded 20 history-related organizations across New York State $5,000 each during its fifth grant round to bring back or hire museum educators. [Read more…] about $100K Awarded To Museum Educators

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Beacon Historical Society, Chapman Museum, Education, Edward Hopper House Museum, Grants, Greater Ridgewood Historical Society, Historic Cherry Hill, John Brown Lives, Lewis County Historical Society, Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor, Mount Gulian Society, Museum Association of New York, North Creek Railway Depot, Putnam History Museum, Saratoga Springs History Museum, Seneca Falls Historical Society, Slate Valley Museum, Staatsburgh State Historic Site, Time and the Valleys Museum, Underground Railroad Education Center, Vander Ende Onderdonk House, Wappingers Historical Society, William Pomeroy Foundation

Glens Falls Museum Opening ‘Then & Now’ Photo Exhibit

April 25, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Glens Falls Hospital then and nowThe Chapman Museum in Glens Falls has announced Glens Falls: CHANGES: “Now & Then” Photos of Glens Falls & Queensbury, a new exhibit set to open on Saturday, May 1st.

Organized by researchers Robert Bayle and Andrea Matte, Glens Falls: CHANGES tells the stories of “what came before.” The exhibit runs through September 2021. [Read more…] about Glens Falls Museum Opening ‘Then & Now’ Photo Exhibit

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Chapman Museum, exhibits

Virtual Silent Film ‘The Marriage Circle’ With Live Musical Score

September 4, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Marriage-CircleThe Park Theater in Glens Falls, in partnership with the Chapman Museum, is set to presents “The Marriage Circle” featuring live musical score by Ben Model, via YouTube livestream on September 10th. [Read more…] about Virtual Silent Film ‘The Marriage Circle’ With Live Musical Score

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Chapman Museum, Cultural History, film, Film History, Glens Falls, Music, Performing Arts, Sembrich

Upstate New York Historic Signs Talk in Glens Falls

January 16, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

chapman museumThe Chapman Museum is set to present a talk on historic signs by curator Jillian Mulder on Sunday, January 20th at 2 pm.

Expanding upon Mulder’s 2018 “Secret Life of Signs” exhibition, this illustrated talk will provide a visual tour of unique and historic signage within the greater upstate region. [Read more…] about Upstate New York Historic Signs Talk in Glens Falls

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Chapman Museum, Glens Falls

New Stoddard Photography Book Features Lake George

December 24, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

water and light book coverThe Chapman Historical Museum in Glens Falls has just published Water & Light: S.R. Stoddard’s Lake George, a new work on the photography of Seneca Ray Stoddard.

The 160-page book features 150 of Stoddard’s photos, as well as some samples of his painting, sketches and cartography.

As a 19th century American photographer, S. R. Stoddard is often ranked with William Henry Jackson and Carlton Watkins, and the quality of his photographic compositions is compared with many of the Hudson River School painters. It is estimated Stoddard took some ten thousand images in the Adirondack Mountains alone. [Read more…] about New Stoddard Photography Book Features Lake George

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Books, History, Nature Tagged With: Chapman Museum, Photography, Stoddard, Warren County

Glens Falls Lecture: Champion Bicycle Rider Harry Elkes

October 30, 2014 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Harry ElkesOn Thursday, November 6 at 7 pm, John Strough will speak at the Chapman Museum in Glens Falls NY, about the short but fascinating career of local bicycle racer, Harry Elkes, who achieved great fame but died tragically at a young age.  The program is free and open to the public.

Born in Port Henry on Lake Champlain, Harry started racing on 10 and 25 mile dirt courses when he was eighteen.  By 1898 he was winning races and setting records.  For two years he raced with great success in Europe, before returning to the United States to tackle distance events and the one mile record. [Read more…] about Glens Falls Lecture: Champion Bicycle Rider Harry Elkes

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: bicycling, Chapman Museum, Glens Falls, Sports History

New Chapman Museum Exhibit, Portrait Stories, Opens

October 15, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Bridget vignetteWho was Bridget? The idea behind Portrait Stories started when staff at Chapman Museum in Glens Falls, NY were doing research for the summer 2014 exhibit, At the Lake.  Their curiosity was piqued by a photo of the Ranger family, in which every individual pictured was identified by name.  Interestingly, for one woman, only her first name, Bridget, was provided.

Additional research turned up nothing about Bridget. One can assume from her name that she was Irish, and from her clothing that she was a maid. As a servant for the Ranger family, that summer she would have prepared and served meals, cleaned the cottage and cared for the young children.  But then her story ends.  Perhaps she married or moved on to another location; we simply do not know. [Read more…] about New Chapman Museum Exhibit, Portrait Stories, Opens

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Art History, Chapman Museum, Glens Falls, Lake George, Photography

Chapman Exhibit Focuses On Lake George History

May 13, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Waltonian CampThe Chapman Historical Museum’s new exhibit, At the Lake, which runs through August 31, presents different perspectives on what it has meant to be at Lake George over the past 150 years. Included in the exhibit are the stories of groups that camped on the lake’s many islands, families that built grand homes on the lake, and others who constructed more modest camps.

To diversify the story the exhibit also includes the experiences of people who lived on the lake and worked there each summer as waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, guides and boatmen. [Read more…] about Chapman Exhibit Focuses On Lake George History

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Chapman Museum, Cultural History, Labor History, Lake George, Sports History

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