NEW
EXHIBITION
AT
HISTORIC
RICHMOND
TOWN
BRINGING UP BABY
Children’s Furniture And Family Life By Maxine Friedman and Sarah Clark
Young Child in a Rocking Chair. George Bear, Photographer, Staten Island, circa 1915. Staten Island Historical Society Collection. This exhibit was made possible by the generosity of Wendy Shadwell.
bjects of childhood are among the most evocative items in the Staten Island Historical Society’s collection. Perhaps it is because so many of us have saved cherished objects from our own youth. Those treasures speak of our childhoods and families, as well as the larger world in which we grew up.
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A new exhibition at the Staten Island Historical Society features more than 30 examples of children’s furniture from the Society’s collection. “Bringing Up Baby: Children’s Furniture and Family Life,” which will be on display at the Museum at Historic Richmond Town from April 2008 through March 2009, presents
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