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Although relations with neighboring communities are cooperative, [1] Islamberg has repeatedly faced threats and persecution originating from false right-wing conspiracy theories spread online. [7] Right-wing groups such as InfoWars [ 8 ] have claimed that Islamberg is a training center for terrorists, claims which local law enforcement and ...
The Science and Art Department was created as a subdivision of the Board of Trade in 1853, expanding the existing Department of Practical Art. Its first superintendent was Henry Cole, and it supported not just science but also "practical arts" – i.e. technology and design.
Central New York Art Non-profit photography center Lincoln Depot Museum: Peekskill: Westchester Lower Hudson Biographical History and ties between Abraham Lincoln and Peekskill Lisbon Depot Museum: Lisbon: St. Lawrence Thousand Islands Local history Town's social, agricultural and railway history Little Falls New York Historical Society & Museum
New York City Manhattan Anya and Andrew Shiva Art Gallery, [59] [60] Keuka College: Private Keuka Park: Yates: Ginzburg Gallery, Lightner Art Gallery [61] Kingsborough Community College: Public New York City Brooklyn: Kingsborough Art Museum [62] Lehman College: Public New York City The Bronx: Lehman College Art Gallery [63] Manhattan Community ...
Avery Library's collection in architecture literature is among the largest in the world and includes such highlights as the first Western printed book on architecture, De re aedificatoria (1485), by Leone Battista Alberti; Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499); works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi; and classics of modernism by Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, with the rarest ...
The Libraries and Archives serve Smithsonian Institution staff as well as the scholarly community and general public with information and reference support. Its collections number nearly 3 million volumes including 50,000 rare books and manuscripts. The Libraries' collections focus primarily on science, art, history and culture, and museology. [3]
New York State Historical Association: Reported assets of $53.237 million on June 30, 2005, and took in revenues of $6.216 million in FY 2005 [2] American Irish Historical Society: located on Fifth Avenue in New York City, opposite Metropolitan Museum of Art [3] American Jewish Historical Society: 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
[1] [2] [a] Its mission is to discover, preserve and share the local area's history and artifacts from the time of its earliest people to the present. [5] The Society's collection of documents and objects are maintained in Rhinebeck, New York where in additions to archives, it has offices and two non-circulating libraries. It publishes an ...