This exhibition explored how the art of cartography was used during the 19th and 20th centuries to define the geography of Long Island as a place for investment, industry and commerce, home-building, and ultimately, substantial growth and profit.
Exhibitions
Past Exhibition:
Past Exhibition:
Antiques that Speak: Collecting Long Island in the 21st Century
Dedicated to the late Huyler Held, a Preservation Long Island past president, this exhibition featured many of our most significant acquisitions, ranging from eighteenth-century masterworks of Long Island decorative arts to 20th-century ephemera.
Past Exhibition:
Long Island at Work and at Play: Early 20th-Century Photographs from Preservation Long Island’s Collections
Step back in time to see how Long Island was in the early 1900s through the ever-before-seen images of photographers Clarence A. Purchase, Arthur S. Greene, and Harry R. Gelwicks.