Institution: The City College of New York Archives & Special Collections
Event Title: University of Harlem: Legacies of CCNY Student Life (Exhibit)
Date and Time: Multiple Dates
Event Type: In-Person Exhibition
Location: 160 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/university-of-harlem-legacies-of-ccny-student-life-exhibit-at-ccny-tickets-1758085072779?aff=oddtdtcreator
Event Description: The CCNY Archives & Special Collections are excited to present "University at Harlem: Legacies of CCNY Student Life", a special exhibit featuring materials from the archival collections.
Institution: Oskar Diethelm Library, Weill Cornell Medicine
Event Title: Imagination and Film: Yair Qedar, director of Outsider Freud
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2025; 1:15 PM to 2:45 PM
Event Type: Hybrid Lecture
Location: Weill Cornell Medicine (In-person and Zoom)
Registration: Zoom Link
Event Description: Imagination and Film: Yair Qedar, director of Outsider Freud interviewed by George Makari
Institution: Bjarke Ingels Group
Event Title: Bjarke Ingels Group Tour
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2025; 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Event Type: In-Person Tour
Location: 45 Main Street, 9th Floor
Registration: RSVP by email to archives@big.dk
Event Description: Visit the Office and Archives of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The tour will be led by Julie I. May, Global Manager of Archives and Alana Goldweit, Associate Architect and will include BIG's reference library, model shop, DAMS, and visible model storage/display. Tour will last approximately 45 minutes preceding and followed by drinks and snacks.
Institution: Public Design Commission
Event Title: Public Design Commission Archive Tour
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2025; 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM
Location: 253 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Registration: RSVP by email to jmonjeau@cityhall.nyc.gov
Event Description: The Public Design Commission (PDC) maintains an archive of projects reviewed by the Commission since 1902, documenting nearly 8,000 sites throughout New York City and providing a unique view into the history of the City’s public works and showing how social, political and economic factors and world events can shape the public realm. Containing original documents, drawings, photographs, and architectural plans, the archive informs the Commission’s review of current projects and provides a valuable resource to researchers.
Tour Capacity: 15 attendees
RSVP: Please RSVP by email no later than 6pm on Monday, October 13th. All attendee names will be shared with building security 24 hours prior to the tour.
Sign-in Information: The tour will meet in the lobby of 253 Broadway (Broadway between Murray & Warren Streets). Plan to arrive at least 10 minutes before the tour start time. After signing in with Julianna Monjeau (Senior Archivist & Information Specialist) you will be directed to pass through security and a metal detector in the lobby. Bring a Photo ID and be prepared to remove belts or any metal accessories upon request.
Institution: La MaMa Archive
Event Title: La MaMa Archive Tour
Date and Time: Thursday, October 16, 2025; 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: 66 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003
Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1702777706959
Event Description: Established in the early 1970’s, La MaMa Archive collects, preserves, and exhibits records of permanent historical value relating to La MaMa and the Off-Off Broadway movement. La MaMa’s collections offer an intimate perspective on major social, aesthetic, and political movements of the 20th and 21st centuries that resonate with histories of peoples across the globe. Join Archive staff as we tell the story of how La MaMa was founded and the ways in which it would change the landscape of American theatre through the work of Ellen Stewart and her cohort of playwrights, directors and actors. Explore the Archive and hear the stories behind the props, costumes, posters and sets.
The tour capacity is 15 guests.
Oct 16 @ 1:00pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1702777706959
Oct 21 @ 3:00pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/989027065577
Institution: New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Event Title: Open House: Archives and Special Collections @ NYCCT
Date and Time: Thursday, October 16, 2025; 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Event Type: In-Person Open House
Location: Archives and Special Collections of the Ursula C. Schwerin Library, New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay Street, Library Building L543C, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Registration Link: https://citytech-cuny.libwizard.com/f/archivesweek2025
Event Description: Please join the NYCCT team for an open house. The Archives is home to historical materials from City Tech's precursors: the New York Trade School, Voorhees Technical Institute, and the New York City Community College. Materials include: student records, administrative memos, correspondence, yearbooks, photographs, videocassettes, ephemera, and realia.
The Archives also contains two special collections, the Vogel Ophthalmology Collection and the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. The Vogel Collection of rare ophthalmic textbooks are from the estate of the late Irwin Vogel. Mr. Vogel was an adjunct lecturer at NYCCT before becoming the program director at Cañada College in California. Irwin Vogel is credited with an optical formula still in use in opticianry.
The City Tech Science Fiction Collection contains over 600-linear-feet of near-complete runs of the major science fiction magazines, and an extensive holding of science fiction anthologies, novels, and scholarship. Additionally, there are significant selections of fringe texts, including mystery, horror, and the supernatural.
We will gather for 1 hour and cap registrants at 20. Please use the registration link to RSVP.
Note: ID will be required to check in at the security desk.
Institution: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives and Library
Event Title: Dominican Studies Panel – Honoring Legacy Through History
Date and Time: Thursday, October 16, 2025; 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Event Type: In-Person Panel Discussion
Location: City College NAC Ballroom 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031
Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/y9e7wp23
Event Description: In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, join us for a powerful conversation with scholars and community leaders exploring Dominican heritage, activism, and cultural memory in New York. Our panelists include Dr. Edward Paulino, Larry J. Hackman Research Resident Alumni and professor at John Jay College (CUNY), along with Jhensen Ortiz and Jessy Perez-Camilo of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear directly from our brilliant panelists as they unpack stories of resilience, identity, and the monumental journey behind Dominicans in New York.
Institution: New York City Municipal Archives
Event Title: NYAW Tour of the City's Archives - Preserving Records of Human Rights
Date and Time: Thursday, October 16, 2025; 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Location: 147 41st Street #Suite 7A Brooklyn, NY 11232
Registration Link: https://nyaw2025-municipalarchivestour.eventbrite.com
Event Description: The New York City Municipal Archives (NYCMA) will host a tour of the storage and research location at Industry City in Brooklyn where archivists are processing the City Commission on Human Rights Collection. In 2024, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission awarded the NYCMA a grant to process and partially digitize the collection. Once processing is completed, the collection will provide significant documentation on the evolution of laws, investigations, and prosecutions related to housing, employment, gender, and race discrimination. During the program, processing archivists will share insights regarding personal privacy issues and the use of harmful language redescription as well as featuring some of the great finds that were hidden within the collection.
RSVP via Eventbrite
Capacity – 30 people
Please email publicprograms@records.nyc.gov, if you have any questions or concerns.
Institution: New York School of Interior Design Archives & Special Collections
Event Title: The Archives of Interior Design: Collection Highlights & Exhibition Walk-through
Date and Time: Thursday, October 16, 2025; 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Location: 170 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/DrynbSWoUYt4DWxs5
Event Description: Join Archivist/Librarian Nora Reilly for an inside look at highlights from the New York School of Interior Design’s Archives & Special Collections.
These collections trace the evolution of the interior design profession and pedagogy across the 20th century, featuring drawings and renderings of interiors, furniture, lighting, and surface designs. They document the design of iconic hotels, restaurants, offices, and residences.
Following the highlights, participants will take part in a guided walk-through of Sketching the Surface: Exploring the New York School of Interior Design Archives and Contemporary Pattern Design. This exhibition pairs archival textiles and wall coverings with contemporary works, and includes an interactive workshop where visitors can create their own designs.
Finally, attendees will hear a behind-the-scenes account of how the exhibition was mounted—complete with the insights, challenges, and practical tips for an archivist's successful collaboration with a curatorial team.
RSVP required: Capacity 15
Institution: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Event Title: Autobiography and Other Stories with Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Location: 381 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtRopuVO7dshMbUTFWzHd5wRSat7KRLBxjsUMooQHiCQWPDQ/viewform?usp=preview
Event Description: The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives is thrilled to invite you for an exclusive visit to Robert Rauschenberg’s eponymous Foundation in honor of the Centennial of the artist’s birth.
Located in Rauschenberg's former New York home and studio, the Foundation presents the installation Autobiography and Other Stories: Robert Rauschenberg in Words and Images, with artworks that span the artist’s nearly sixty-year career and reveal the breadth of his creative explorations. A selection of Rauschenberg’s little-known writings addresses the artworks on view and highlights his major preoccupations, including his collaborations with choreographers and composers and his focus on the environment and social activism.
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives staff invites you to a private tour of the current installation and archives.
Space is limited to 20 people—please RSVP to attend. We look forward to welcoming you.
Institution: Interference Archive and Margaret Morton Archive
Event Title: Exhibition Opening: "Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades" at Interference Archive
Date and Time: Thursday, October 16, 2025; 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Event Type: In-Person Exhibition Opening
Location: Interference Archive (314 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215)
Registration: RSVP/registration is not needed for the Opening Reception
Event Description: Join Interference Archive and Margaret Morton Archive for the opening reception of "Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades: Margaret Morton's Glass House and the Squats of the Lower East Side," on view at Interference Archive from October 17th, 2025 - January 5th, 2026 (Opening Reception at Interference Archive on Thursday, October 16th from 6PM to 9PM).
"Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades" explores the squatter movement on New York’s Lower East Side (Loisaida) in the 1990s. It features Margaret Morton’s photographs of life in Glass House, an abandoned glass factory at the corner of Avenue D and East 10th Street. Several dozen squatters made the building their home for sixteen months, until police evicted them in winter 1994. The exhibition presents Morton’s in-depth portrait of one squat, with an array of printed materials exploring the debates that arose over squatters’ rights.
Interference Archive worked in partnership with the Margaret Morton Archive to produce the exhibition, an accompanying zine, two panel discussions and a film screening, which will take place in November and December 2025. Registration for these public programs will be available on Interference Archive's website beginning in late October / early November.
What is Past is Prologue: The Future of Memory
New York Archives Week Symposium & Awards Ceremony 2025
The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (A.R.T.) is pleased to announce that the annual A.R.T. Symposium and Awards Ceremony will take place in-person at the Center for Brooklyn History on Friday, October 17th, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with registration starting at 9:30 AM.
The theme, "What is Past is Prologue," is a quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and is also inscribed at the National Archives Building. The quote was chosen to reflect recent challenges to memory institutions, such as the dismissal of the National Archivist and the proposed elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. These issues create a difficult environment for institutions, which must not only preserve and provide access to unique histories but also adapt to an evolving landscape with limited resources.
As memory institutions prepare for the nation's 2026 semiquincentennial, this symposium offers a chance for archives professionals to reflect on their field's history and future. The event will focus on contemporary archival work, including rethinking theory, preserving endangered histories, community-centered collaboration, and creative access methods.
The symposium will be followed by an Awards Ceremony to celebrate the distinguished work and lasting achievements of individuals and institutions in the profession.
This is an in-person event limited to 100 people. Advance registration is required and is non-transferable. You must reserve a ticket online to attend both the symposium and the awards ceremony.
Coffee and a light lunch will be provided.
Please reach out to the Director of Education, Herbert Durán, at education@nycarchivists.org with any questions.
Date: Friday, October 17th, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location
Center for Brooklyn History
128 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Admission
A.R.T. Members: $30.00 per person
A.R.T. Student Member: $15.00 per person
Non-A.R.T. Members: $45.00 per person
Please note: This event will not be recorded, but presentations will be organized in a proceedings document available sometime after the event.
Program
Keynote Address:
"Material Resistance" by Obden Mondésir, Archivist at the Haitian Studies Institute, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Archives in Praxis
Archives in Praxis brings together panels that invite us to reimagine archival theory and practice. As professionals in the library, archives, and records management fields, it's important to constantly challenge our everyday practices and thoughts. This panel will provide us with an expanded foundation on archival theory and two case studies to illustrate the inclusion of communities often excluded from the historical record.
Towards a Postmodern Theory of the Wall Archive | Pat Santalices Torres, PhD Student, Columbia University
Endangered Archives: Student Newspapers, Censorship, and the Fight to Preserve Campus History | Wanett Clyde, Collections Management Librarian, Ursula C. Schwerin Library, New York City College of Technology and Carlos Semchechen, Graduate Student
Dear Sister Bryophyte: Providing Access to the Archival Records of Women in Natural History | Ashley Aberg, Reference Archivist, New York Botanical Garden and Nicole Font, Shelby White & Leon Levy Processing Archivist, New York Botanical Garden
Archives Off-Center
Archives Off-Center, will delve into novel forms of organization and collaboration for archival projects. In a time of institutional challenges and the return of regressive historical narratives, it is critical that we seek to strengthen and expand existing partnerships with our communities, even as that work is increasingly imperiled and under-funded. This panel will discuss their efforts to center communities in their work as well as outline their approaches to preservation and stewardship as they expand past the traditional boundaries and structures of the archival institution.
XFR Collective: Community Archiving Through Collaboration | Claudia Acosta, Vincent Kelley, and Scout Zabel, XFR Collective
Decentralizing Archival Practice to Imagine Otherwise | Miranda Mims and Steven G. Fullwood, Nomadic Archivists Project (NAP)
Archives as Place
Archives as Place will explore the archive as a site of interpretation. In times of unprecedented challenges, it is imperative that we evolve to meet the needs of new publics. When we activate the archives through storytelling, we can encourage fresh, new engagement with the collections we steward, while also demonstrating the vitality of our work. This panel will expound on three innovative and impactful methods to welcome audiences into archival spaces.
Witnessing the Archives: The Challenges and Benefits of Tours as Reference | Linda L. Smith, Graduate Student/Student Worker, New York University
Funk in Flux: The Apollo Theater in Transition | Brad San Martin, Digital Archivist, The Apollo
Investigation and Interpretation: Immersive Art at Planting Fields | Marie Penny, Michael D. Coe Archivist, Planting Fields Foundation
Documenting the Ephemeral
Documenting the Ephemeral will examine the future of endangered materials, critical to local storytelling, in the face of tightening budgets and shifting institutional priorities. Often overlooked or disregarded, records from localized sources such as regional news stations and community cemeteries face erasure and dispersal despite their vital importance as sites of public memory. In this panel, archivists and historians will discuss the ways in which they located farflung assets as well as extended access through outreach and coalition-building.
Memories of Memorialization: The Presbrey-Leland Memorials Collection at the Woodlawn Cemetery & Conservancy | Maddy Heller, Archivist, The Woodlawn Cemetery & Conservancy and Jesse Ludington, Development Associate, The Woodlawn Cemetery & Conservancy
Where Have All the Archives Gone? The State of Local TV News in NYC | Stephanie Jenkins, Documentary Producer / Archival Researcher and Co-Director of Archival Producers Alliance
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Institution: United Nations Archives
Event Title: Tour of the UN Archives
Date and Time: Friday, October 17, 2025; 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Location: United Nations/Exact location provided a few days before event
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/Lm41p59duCbDWgxAA
Event Description: In 2024 the UN Archives completed a move from its warehouse facility in Queens. During the move, lots of interesting records and objects were rediscovered and will be featured in the tour. The tour will highlight the history of the United Nations and it's predecessor organizations. What are 120-year old Conventions doing at the UN? Why is there a poisonous notebook next to forty large keys? Who does space belong to? All this and more will be talked about.
Dia Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York, courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York
Institution: Dia Art Foundation Archives
Event Title: Dia Beacon Exhibition & Archives Tour
Date and Time: Saturday, October 18, 2025; 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Dia Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, New York
Registration Link: https://diaart.wufoo.com/forms/r1vas6j41abbhjs/
Event Description: Please join us at Dia Beacon for a private tour of the Dia Art Foundation Archives and related exhibitions of artists Andy Warhol and Cameron Rowland with archivists Amye McCarther and Clifford Allen.
Founded in 1974 to help artists achieve visionary projects that might not otherwise be realized due to their scale or scope, Dia Art Foundation comprises a constellation of nine permanent sites across the United States and Germany, as well as three exhibition spaces in New York State: Dia Chelsea, Dia Bridgehampton, and Dia Beacon. Dia Beacon occupies a landmark 1929 former Nabisco printing factory on the Hudson River and features nearly 300,000 square feet of galleries and surrounding gardens designed by artist Robert Irwin devoted to the presentation of Dia’s collection, new exhibitions, commissions, and public programs.
The Dia Art Foundation Archives advances Dia's commitment to supporting, realizing, and preserving the vision of artists through the collection and preservation of records and media documenting the Foundation's history of single artist projects, exhibitions, site-specific installations, and in-depth collecting of a focused group of artists who came to maturity during the 60s and 70s, as well as select contemporary artists whose work engages meaningfully with the legacies of conceptual and site-responsive practices.
Archivists Amye McCarther and Clifford Allen will provide an overview of Dia’s history and archival collections, present selected materials highlighting Dia’s unique programmatic history, and discuss current initiatives such as Dia’s Oral History Project and artists in residence program. The tour will additionally include a guided exhibition tour–led by Amye McCarther–of commissioned works by artists Andy Warhol and Cameron Rowland with installations realized through archival research on Dia’s history of supporting artists’ projects.
Complimentary entry to the galleries and light refreshments will be provided. Advance registration is required. Space is limited.
Institution: XFR Collective
Event Title: XFR Collective Workshop
Date and Time: Saturday, October 18, 2025; 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Event Type: In-Person Workshop
Location: Property Is Theft, 411 South 5th St, Los Sures, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Registration: RSVP by email to xfrcollective@gmail.com
Event Description: XFR Collective (pronounced “transfer”) is an all-volunteer non-profit organization that partners with artists, activists, individuals, and groups to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media, particularly vulnerable to obsolescence and decay. XFR Collective will host an open video digitization workshop at Property Is Theft (P.I.T.) where we will walk you through our video digitization rack, how the transfer process works, and how to digitize a videotape. This workshop will not only teach the basics of transferring videotape, but will serve as a demonstration of how our regular community archives workshops operate.
Institution: Godwin-Ternbach Museum
Event Title: Beyond the Exhibit: The Godwin-Ternbach Collection Uncovered
Date and Time: Sunday, October 19, 2025; 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Event Type: Virtual Tour
Location: Zoom
Registration Link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Le78VOagQaGSPPmXb7kzFw
Event Description: Learn about the Godwin-Ternbach Museum collection in the Flushing campus of Queens College, City University of New York. In this virtual tour, we discuss the history of the museum, its mission, and its collection. Established in 1957, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum (GTM) is the only museum in the CUNY system with an extensive encyclopedic art collection of 7,000 objects. A part of the Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, GTM activates its collection with a teaching mission—using its objects in exhibits, public school and college classrooms, student/professor research, tours, etc. Highlighting the wide ranging collection, in the virtual tour we will showcase a 14th Century French stained glass window from the Dormition of the Virgin in Troyes, a woodcut print by Susumu Yamaguchi, a sculpture of a “Wedding Cake” by Pat Lasch, a milagros-inspired piece by Claudia DeMonte, and a painting by Roger Shimomura. Learn about GTM—a small institution with a rich collection of prints, paintings, sculptures, photographs, artist books, and so much more in the heart of the CUNY system in Queens, New York City.
Hosted by Elena Butuzova, Collections Assistant, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, City University of New York
Institution: Lesbian Herstory Archives
Event Title: Participatory Archiving and Building Tour at the Lesbian Herstory Archives
Date and Time: Sunday, October 19, 2025; 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Event Type: Program, Tour In-Person
Location: Lesbian Herstory Archives, 484 14th St, 11215 Brooklyn NY
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/BKZZz2SszSAbfkULA
Event Description: Join the Special Collections Team at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in a tour of our historic brownstone. Learn about our collections, our participatory and community centric model, and get behind the scenes information about how processing works! The last two hours will be spent processing materials at the Archives including media cataloging and re-housing new collections. Come explore the Archives and volunteer with us: keep the tradition alive.
CAPACITY: 25 maximum. RSVP required.
ACCESS INFO: Wheelchair lift for entry possible to the first floor which is fully accessible with an accessible bathroom. The second floor is only accessible by stairs. This event could happen fully on the first floor. MASK MANDATORY! Please wear KN95s or better; if not, they will be provided. All other access needs [low scent, low light, etc.] can be requested when attendance is confirmed at lhaspecialcollections@gmail.com
Institution: The New York Public Library
Event Title: Old and New: Greatest Hits and New Acquisitions in NYPL Special Collections
Date and Time: Monday, October 20, 2025; 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Event Type: In-Person Collection Display, Tour, and Program
Location: NYPL's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018
Register here, using the password nypl: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/old-and-new-greatest-hits-and-new-acquisitions-in-nypl-special-collections-tickets-1770402424309?aff=oddtdtcreator
Event Description: Explore some of The New York Public Library’s most iconic collections, displayed alongside its newest acquisitions, at the Library’s flagship 42nd Street building. Curators from the Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, the Berg Collection of English and American Literature, and the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Divisions will display and discuss items from NYPL’s earliest holdings, as well as recently-acquired collections that are informing and inspiring a new generation in their research, scholarship, and creativity.
Event Title: Sexual and Gender Minorities Collections Tour, Oskar Diethelm Library
Date and Time: Monday, October 20, 2025; 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: Payne Whitney 525 East 68th Street New York, NY 10065
Registration: Please RSVP to nrt4001@med.cornell.edu.
Event Description: Please join us for a tour focusing on the sexual and gender minorities collections of the Oskar Diethelm Library on October 20, including materials from Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, and publications by and about trans people. The Oskar Diethelm Library, part of Weill Cornell Medical College's DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, is a special collections library devoted to the history of psychiatry. Comprising approximately 35,00 titles, the collection has strengths in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, mesmerism, spiritualism, phrenology, witchcraft and related topics, with titles stretching as far back as the 15th century.
Please RSVP to nrt4001@med.cornell.edu. The tour is limited to 10 people, and directions to the library are available at: https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/research-institutes/dewitt-wallace-institute-psychiatry/oskar-diethelm-library/visit-library
Institution: New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center Archives
Event Title: Spooky Tales from the Medical Center Archives
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2025; 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Registration: Email email-archives@med.cornell.edu for registration
Event Description: Are you ready for changing leaves, pumpkin spice, and all things fall? If so, here is a way you can get into the fall "spirit" through a themed journey highlighting stories from the archives of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine! "Spooky Tales from the Medical Center Archives" will be offered on Tuesday, October 21st at 11:00 AM EST with archivists Chiyong (Tali) Han and Sana Masood. You can register for the virtual tour by emailing email-archives@med.cornell.edu!
Institution: College of Staten Island Library
Event Title: Staten Island's Elliottville: Abolitionist Enclave, Gilded Age Retreat, Ferry Suburb
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2025; 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Event Type: In-Person Program
Location: Library Archives, College of Staten Island, 2800 Victory Blvd., Staten Island, NY
Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/r/Q4zW7HqdWC
Event Description: Please join the author of Staten Island’s Elliottville who will discuss years of research that uncovered the story of the neighborhood.
New York City was known for supporting concessions with the South; however, on Staten Island, one neighborhood stood out for providing national leadership in the movement to end slavery. That neighborhood, Elliottville, was settled by New Englanders committed to social reform, including rights for women, economic reform, religious reform, and an end to slavery. Residents included editorialists, Sydney Howard Gay, editor of the New-York Tribune, and George William Curtis, political editor of Harper's Weekly, each of whom influenced national opinion. Two Civil War heroes also lived in the neighborhood: Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the 54th Massachusetts, the first all-black regiment in the Northeast and Theodore Winthrop, one of the first Union officers killed in the Civil War. Winthrop’s posthumously published novels and travel writings found a broad audience after the war. So, too, did the publications of Anna Leonowens, who moved to Elliottville after the war to write her accounts of Siam, one of which is still popular as the musical, Anna and the King.
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2025; 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2025; 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Institution: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Event Title: A Closer Look at the MoMA Archives, Library and Research Collections
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: MoMA Archives Reading Room (enter at 4 W 54th st entrance)
Registration: RSVP by email to Bridget_okeefe@moma.org
Event Description: The Museum of Modern Art Archives, Library, and Research Collections invite you to join Archivists Meagan Connolly and Rachel Garbade, and Cataloguer Bridget O'Keefe for a showcase of newly processed archival material and recently catalogued addition to our Library. Attendees will learn about how new materials are processed and added to our collections, and ongoing efforts to increase accessibility and visibility to The MoMA's historic Library and Archives.
The Museum of Modern Art Archives collects, preserves, and makes accessible nearly 90 years’ worth of the Museum’s historical records, 40 years’ worth of MoMA PS1 records, and other primary source documents concerning art and cultural history in the 20th and 21st centuries, including private archives and papers of artists, galleries, dealers, art historians, critics, and others. The Museum of Modern Art Library is a comprehensive collection devoted to modern and contemporary art. The noncirculating collection documents painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photography, architecture, design, performance, video, film, and emerging art forms from 1880 to the present (from 1830 for photography). The Library’s holdings include approximately 400,000 books and exhibition catalogs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 90,000 files of ephemera about individual artists and groups.
Capacity: 20 people. RSVP required.
Institution: Horological Society of New York
Event Title: Behind the Scenes of a Time Library
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 22, 2025; 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Event Type: In-Person Tour, Open House
Location: Horological Society of New York, 20 W 44th Street, Suite 501
Registration: No rsvp required
Event Description: The librarians and archivists at the Horological Society of New York invite you to join them for a tour behind the scenes of a time library. Everything in our library and archives relates to the study of time and timekeeping from clocks and watches to sundials and calendars, and even the Loch Ness Monster! Items from the society's special collections will be on display and you will have a unique opportunity to tour the archives.
This event will be an all-day open house on Wednesday, October 22. Visitors are welcome any time between 10:30 am and 4:30 pm. No RSVP is required.
Institution: New York Botanical Garden
Event Title: Rooted in the Bronx: The Archives at the New York Botanical Garden
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 22, 2025; 1:45 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/r/seGRfMsJMH
Event Description: Join archivists Ashley Aberg and Nicole Font for a tour of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden, with a focus on the Garden’s archival collections. Attendees will learn about the library’s services, the Garden’s special collections, and ongoing efforts to make archival materials more accessible.
Following the tour, All-Garden passes will be provided for attendees to explore the Garden, including the final days of the exhibition Van Gogh’s Flowers. Space is limited to the first 15 registrants. Please fill out this form by noon on October 15, 2025 to register: https://forms.office.com/r/seGRfMsJMH
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