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  • Berenice Abbott - Changing New York
    Berenice Abbott: Changing New York
  • Tonalism
    Tonalism: Pathway from the Hudson River School to Modern Art
  • George Ault, Autumn Hillside, 1940
    The Historic Woodstock Art Colony: The Arthur A. Anderson Collection
  • Ice Ages
    Ice Ages: How Ice Shaped the Land and the Life in New York
  • Votes For Women
    Votes for Women: Celebrating New York’s Suffrage Centennial
  • A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War logo
    A Spirit of Sacrifice: New York State in the First World War
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    1962 Audio Recording: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Represent Icon
    Represent: Contemporary Native American Art
  • Shaker chairs
    The Shakers - America's Quiet Revolutionaries
  • Mastodon exhibition in museum
    Cohoes Mastodon
  • Plaza at 50 exhibition graphic
    Empire State Plaza at 50
  • Birds of New York Gallery View
    Birds of New York
  • Earthquake imagery
    New York State Museum Earthquake Center
  • The family Room detail
    The Family Room at One Liberty Plaza – World Trade Center Site
  • World Trade Center building facade
    The World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery, Response
  • Civil War snare drum
    An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War
  • Photo of man in rowboat
    Seneca Ray Stoddard: Capturing the Adirondacks
  • War of 1812
    War of 1812
  • Frank Eckmair artwork of old barn
    The Landscape of Memory - Prints by Frank C. Eckmair

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