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39-701: Buckingham Smith translated Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language from an unpublished Spanish manuscript and it was published in 1861. In a 1993 survey by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista , 15 people in the Mexican Federal District self-identified as speakers of Ópata. This may not mean, however, that the language was actually living, since linguistic nomenclature in Mexico is notoriously fuzzy. Sometimes Eudeve

78-627: A degree from Harvard Law School in 1836. After graduation, Smith worked in the law offices of Samuel Fessenden , a politician and abolitionist. When he returned to St. Augustine in 1839, he practiced law and became involved in politics. He was a secretary to Robert R. Reid , governor of the Territory of Florida, and served one term on the Florida Territorial Legislative Council in 1841. In 1843 he married Julia Gardner of Concord, New Hampshire. In 1845 Florida

117-738: A lottery in 1814. The failure of the lottery resulted in a debt that forced the Society to mortgage some of its books, which were not redeemed until 1823. The Historical Society and its collections moved frequently during the 19th century. In 1809, the Historical Society and its collections moved to the Government House on Bowling Green . Constructed as a residence for the President of the United States when New York

156-555: A manuscript collection, several oil portraits and 38 engraved portraits. The Historical Society suffered under heavy debt during its early decades. In 1809, it organized a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson in New York Harbor . Inspired by the event, the Historical Society petitioned and later obtained an endowment from the New York State Legislature , to be financed by

195-769: A state-of-the-art library reading room, and a new facility to house and provide access to the letters and manuscripts of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History . In 2005, the Historical Society was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $ 20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation , which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg . The museum has mounted exhibits on national themes through history in New York. For instance, beginning in 2005 with Slavery and

234-553: A three-year, $ 65 million renovation of the landmark building on Central Park West was completed in 2011 to enhance public access to the institution's resources. On Central Park West, windows were lengthened to form new entrances, with views into the main gallery, and windows were expanded. To establish "a street presence," the society has installed life-size bronze sculptures outside the building— Abraham Lincoln on Central Park West, Frederick Douglass on West 77th Street—national figures with connections to New York. After reopening,

273-543: A world-class collection of Hudson River School paintings, including major works by Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church ; iconic genre and history paintings, including works by William Sidney Mount and Eastman Johnson ; a vast range of American portraits, including paintings by Rembrandt Peale and Gilbert Stuart ; all 435 of John James Audubon 's extant preparatory watercolors for The Birds of America ; and an encyclopedic collection of more than 800 works documenting

312-528: Is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together. Buckingham Smith Thomas Buckingham Smith (October 31, 1810 - January 5, 1871) was a lawyer, diplomat, antiquarian and author. He researched the history of early Spanish exploration and settlement in North America. Smith translated and published several important Spanish documents relating to this history. Smith

351-484: Is called Opata, a term which should be restricted to Teguima. Eudeve (which is split into the Heve ( Egue ) and Dohema dialects) and Teguima (also called Ópata , Ore ) are distinct languages, but sometimes have been considered merely dialects of one single language. The INALI (Mexican National Institute for Indigenous Languages) does not count Opata among the currently extant indigenous languages of Mexico. Although

390-512: The 1974 volume of the same name edited by John A. Garraty . Construction for its eighth home began September 10, 1902. The central portion of the current building on Central Park West was completed on December 15, 1908, to designs by architects York and Sawyer , who were known for their bank designs. In 1938 that central block was extended and sympathetically completed by the construction of pavilions on either end, with Walker & Gillette as architects. That extension project stands among

429-517: The Edict of Nantes , known as the French Huguenot memorial window, in honor of religious refugees to New York. It is inscribed and signed by the artist, Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast . The window was underwritten by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage , a philanthropist who was instrumental in commissioning other windows by Tillinghast. The Historical Society's collection continued to grow throughout

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468-623: The New-York Historical Society ) is an American history museum and library on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City . The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the nation. The New York Historical Museum & Library has been at its present location since 1908. The granite building

507-693: The history of the Constitution . The Society also offers an extensive range of curriculum-based school programs and teacher resources, and provides academic fellowships and organizes public programs for adults to foster lifelong learning and a deep appreciation of history. The New York Historical's museum is the oldest in New York City and predates the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly 70 years. Its art holdings comprise more than 1.6 million works. Among them are

546-575: The 20th century, but renewed financial woes in the 1970s and 1980s forced the Historical Society to limit access to its collections to professional researchers. In the 1980s, under the leadership of Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. , a private equity financier and Enron board member, the Society was forced to use endowment invasion to pay their annual operating costs and cover their salaries, to the point where by 1988, they had only enough money in their endowment to pay for another 18 months of operating expenses. Barbara Knowles Debs from Manhattanville College

585-510: The Historical Society offered a multimedia installation of major themes of American history through stories and figures from New York's past. It also has a new section for an interactive children's history museum. In 2023, the New York Historical Society began constructing the 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m ) Tang Wing, designed by Robert A. M. Stern . The wing will contain collections on LGBTQ+ history. As of 2024 ,

624-764: The Long Island Historical Society (later Brooklyn Historical Society ) was founded in Brooklyn in 1863. The New York Historical holds an extensive collection of historical artifacts, works of American art, and other materials documenting the history of New York and the United States. It presents well-researched exhibitions on a variety of topics and periods in American history , such as George Washington , Alexander Hamilton , Slavery in New York , The Hudson River School , Abraham Lincoln , Ulysses S. Grant , Tiffany designer Clara Driscoll , and

663-573: The Making of New York, 1600s–1827 , it mounted the first exhibition ever in New York City on the major but little-known role of slavery in the city's economy and history. During the colonial years, 41% of households had slaves, and much of the city's economy through the Civil War was related to the South and slavery; half of its exports were related to cotton. Devoting the entire first floor to the exhibit,

702-622: The New York Historical has invested significantly in facility and installation upgrades, and conducted fundraising. It has increased its operating budget by 160 percent to enhance and expand its public programs, while maintaining a balanced budget from 1998 to the present. Recent renovations to the Historical Society include new galleries and exhibition spaces, the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture,

741-547: The Opata Nation, an unrecognized tribe , considers the language inactive, they are in the process of its language revitalization. The Fundación OPATA-TEGUIMA launched the first-ever Opata Living Dictionary in 2021 in collaboration with Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. Opata had long been considered to be part of the Taracahitic languages , but this is no longer considered a valid genetic unit. Opata

780-468: The US secretary of legation to Spain in 1855. In Spain he became friends with noted historian, Pascual de Gayangos , and continued his archival research with an emphasis on the early history of Florida. He also assisted other American historians including Francis Parkman and George Bancroft . He was recalled from Spain in 1858 and again returned to St. Augustine. Although Smith was a slave owner, he sided with

819-646: The Union during the Civil War. In 1864 he served as a delegate at the Republican convention in Baltimore. Shortly afterwards he returned to Spain to continue his archival studies. In 1868 Smith was back in Florida where he was appointed tax commissioner. In 1870 he moved to New York City and died there on January 5, 1871. In his will, Smith bequeathed lands to one of his former slaves and cash to others. He set aside

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858-429: The United States prior to 1860; American fiction, poetry, and belles-lettres prior to 1850; a broad range of materials relating to the history of the circus; and American travel accounts from the colonial era to the present day. The Society operates a website showing many images from its collection. In 2015, it announced the digitization and posting of over a thousand negatives by photographer Robert L. Bracklow from

897-477: The desk at which Clement Clarke Moore wrote " A Visit from Saint Nicholas ", one of the world's largest collections of Tiffany lamps and glasswork, and a collection of more than 550 late 19th-century American board games. Its research library contains more than three million books, pamphlets, maps, atlases, newspapers, broadsides, music sheets, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. Among its collections are far-ranging materials relating to

936-442: The founding and early history of the nation including the first documentary evidence of the phrase "United States of America" ; one of the best collections of 18th-century newspapers in the United States; an outstanding collection of materials documenting slavery and Reconstruction; an exceptional collection of Civil War material, including Ulysses S. Grant 's terms of surrender for Robert E. Lee ; collections relating to trials in

975-685: The full catalog of representational sculpture in America from the colonial period to the present day. The Historical Society holds an important collection of paintings and drawings by marine artist James Bard . The museum holds much of sculptor Elie Nadelman 's legendary American folk art collection, including furniture and household accessories such as lamps, candlesticks, textiles, glass, and ceramic objects, as well as paintings, toys, weather vanes, sculptural woodcarvings, and chalkware. The Historical Society's holdings in artifacts and decorative arts include George Washington 's camp bed from Valley Forge,

1014-596: The last examples of Beaux-Arts architecture completed in the city and in the entire country. The building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. Two notable stained glass windows are found in the library on the 2nd floor. The Arrival of Henry Hudson was designed by Mr. Calvert of the Gorham Manufacturing Company . The second is Revocation of

1053-513: The late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Historical Society was founded on November 20, 1804, largely through the efforts of John Pintard . He was for some years secretary of the American Academy of Fine Arts, as well as the founder of New York's first savings bank. He was also among the first to agitate for a free school system. The first meeting comprised 11 of the city's most prominent citizens, including Mayor DeWitt Clinton . At

1092-408: The meeting, a committee was selected to draw up a constitution, and by December 10, the Historical Society was officially organized. According to the Historical Society's first catalogue, printed in 1813, the museum then held 4,265 books, as well as 234 volumes of United States documents, 119 almanacs, 130 titles of newspapers, 134 maps, and 30 miscellaneous views. It had already collected the start of

1131-423: The museum mounted the largest theme exhibit in its 200-year history. It also addressed the strengths of African Americans who resisted slavery and created their own culture, both in New York and the nation. A related part of the exhibit was commissioning 20 new works by invited artists, some of whom used objects from the museum's collections to create new works and installations on this theme. The second exhibition

1170-545: The next 50 years. The Historical Society later acquired a collection of Egyptian and Assyrian art, which was eventually transferred to the Brooklyn Museum of Art . In 1936 it acquired the collections of the Naval History Society (1912–1936). Between 1934 and 1970, the Historical Society published a 10-volume Encyclopedia of American Biography , edited by Winfield Scott Downs. It is distinct from

1209-476: The president of the New York Historical since 2004. Beginning in 2005, the museum presented a two-year exhibit on Slavery in New York, its largest theme exhibition in 200 years on a topic which it had never addressed before. It included an art exhibit by artists invited to use museum collections in their works. The Society generally focuses on the developing city center in Manhattan . Another historical society,

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1248-972: The rest of his estate to establish the Buckingham Smith Benevolent Association with a mission to benefit current and future generations of blacks in St. Augustine. His manuscripts and library were donated to the New York Historical Society . He is listed as a Great Floridian . He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1862. Smith wrote on a variety of topics including Spanish exploration and colonization, Native American history, linguistics, and geography. Some of his most important works include translations of Spanish and Portuguese manuscripts: New York Historical Society The New York Historical (originally

1287-487: The swamp with a series of canals and using the reclaimed land to grow citrus crops. At some point Smith became interested in the history of early Spanish exploration and settlement in America. With a desire to review the Spanish archives in Mexico, he sought and was granted an appointment to the US diplomatic delegation in Mexico in 1850. After serving there for two years, he returned home and then received an appointment as

1326-486: Was New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War, 1827–1865 , (November 17, 2006 to September 3, 2007), which explored the economy before the war and strong business ties to the South, events related to the war such as the New York City Draft Riots , and other aspects. Southerners visited New York so frequently in the antebellum era that they had favorite hotels. Under the direction of Louise Mirrer,

1365-477: Was admitted as a state and the federal government was anxious to explore its economic potential. In 1847, the U.S. Senate appointed Smith to conduct a survey of the Florida Everglades . He spent five weeks performing a careful analysis of the terrain and its wildlife and submitted a report in 1848. His report is considered the first official publication on the area. In his report Smith advocated draining

1404-593: Was born October 31, 1810, on Cumberland Island , Georgia, the son of Josiah and Hannah Smith. When Smith's father was appointed U.S. Consul to Mexico, the rest of the family settled in St. Augustine, Florida in 1820. Smith received his early education in Florida and visited his father in Mexico when he was about fourteen. The elder Smith died in 1825 and Buckingham became the ward of his uncle, Robert Smith. Smith attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and later earned

1443-455: Was designed by York & Sawyer in a classic Roman Eclectic style . The building, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, is a New York City designated landmark . A renovation, completed in November 2011, made the building more accessible to the public, provided space for an interactive children's museum, and facilitated access to its collections. Louise Mirrer has been

1482-412: Was named interim director of the Historical Society. In the same year hundreds of paintings, decorative art objects, and other artifacts, which were stored in a Manhattan warehouse, were found to be critically deteriorating. Many of the objects were on long-term loan to the museum. In 1995, grants from the city and state restored public access under the direction of Betsy Gotbaum . Since the late 1990s,

1521-489: Was the temporary capital, the building had been unoccupied since the government's relocation to Philadelphia in 1790. In 1816, the Historical Society moved to the New York Institution, formerly the city almshouse on City Hall Park . In 1857, it moved into the first building constructed specifically for its collections, at the then-fashionable intersection of Second Avenue and 11th Street, where it stayed for

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