Join us for a day-long program to learn about early Long Island furniture. Through a series of hands-on workshops and lectures, hear from noted experts on topics related to the design, craftmanship, interpretation, and care of historic furniture collections.
Tag: Collections
Discovering Early Long Island Furniture:
Hundreds of Historic Documents from Our Archives Now Part of East Hampton Library’s Digital Collection
We are excited to announce that hundreds of items from our archives, spanning three centuries of Long Island history, are now fully accessible to the public through East Hampton Library’s Digital Long Island Collection.
Stitched Together: A Community Quilt Project
Read about our community quilt project sponsored by North Shore Quilting and Fiber Art in celebration of the opening of the Smithsonian Institution exhibition, Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, at Preservation Long Island!
Inventorying Preservation Long Island’s Objects Collection
Supported by the IMLS Inspire! Grants for Small Museums program, Preservation Long Island recently embarked on an project to inventory its entire collection of art and artifacts. Collections assistant, Alyson Katz, shares her experience.
The Background Parade: Elizabeth Tailer Nelson and the Transatlantic Portrait
Nicholas Vega, collections and curatorial intern and 2023 Gardiner Young Scholar, shares his research on the provocative seventeenth-century portrait of Elizabeth Tailer Nelson (1667–1734), the mother-in-law of Henry Lloyd of Queens Village.
The Decorative Arts Trust Awards Failey Grant to Edward Lange Book Project
The Dean F. Failey Grant will provide support for the production of our forthcoming book, Promoting Long Island: The Art of Edward Lange, 1870-1889, an initiative of our multi-year Art of Edward Lange Project.