American artifacts, we visit the gallery to learn about a selection of works by Charles Willson peale. Karie im karie diethorn. I am the chief curator. I oversee a large collection of artifacts here. We are here at the second bank of the United States, a historic building, part of the Independence National historical park. This was finished in 1824, literally the fort knox of its day. The building has been restored on the exterior. When you come to see it, you will see how it looked brandnew in 1824. Inside we have the fine arts exhibit to tell the story of what it was like to live in 18th century america, the world that those people knew and the world that the revolutionists built. The portrait collection at Independence National historical park is a very old one. The bulk of our collection, 94 pictures, was painted by Charles Willson peale of philadelphia. Philadelphia artist who had his own museum in the city. The museum was so popular that in the middle of the 19th century, many of
Immigrant experience affected his political views. They also explain how hamilton have helped shift washingtons opinion of slavery. The New York Historical society hosted this hourlong event. [applause] tonights program is a lecture in american history. We think carl for his wonderful support, and it was like to recognize a few other people in the auditorium cured the heart of our public programs, as i think you all know, is the bernard and Irene Schwartz distinguished speaker series. Mr. Swartz also helped start the classic film series, now in its fifth year. It is growing and growing. Esther schwartz mr. Swartz, thank you so much. Lets give him a hand. [applause] i also want to recognize joel pickett, david, and the trustees and chairmans counsel for all the great work. Lets give them a hand, as well. [applause] the program will last one hour. We will have a question and answer session. We are doing the questions on cards, it works better and everyone gets a chance to ask questions a
Im kariehorn diethorn. I am the chief curator at the Independence National park, the National Park service in philadelphia. I oversee a large collection of Museum Artifacts here, almost 4 million of them. We are here at the second bank of the United States, a Historic Building that is part of the Independence National historical park. The second bank of the United States, which was finished in 1824, was literally the fort knox of its day. The building has been restored on the exterior, so when you come to see us you will see how , it looked brandnew. Exhibits the fine arts from the early 19th century to tell the story of what it was like to live in 18th century america, the world that those people knew and the worldly world that the revolution built. The portrait collection at Independence National historical park is a very, very old one. The bulk of our collection, 94 pictures, was painted by Charles Wilson peel, a Philadelphia Artist who had a museum here in the city. The museum was
Start he began it with us the bernard and irene shorts classic film series, now in its fifth year. And it is just growing and growing. So mr. Swartz, thank you so much. Lets give him a great hand. [applause] i also want to recognize joel pickett, davids elastic, trustees with us, and all the chairmans counsel for all the great work and support. Lets give them all a great hand, as well. [applause] so the program tonight will last an we will have a question hour. And answer session. We are doing the questions on cards. It works better, everyone gets a chance to ask questions, and we get a lot more questions covered. So you should have received a pencil and a card. If you have not, staff will go up and down the aisles with them , and then we will collect them and hand them to our moderator. There will be a formal book signing after the program, so please stay for the book signing. The books are for sale. In the museum store on the 77th street side. So we are so happy to welcome john steel
This past thursday liberty hall, check on that online for that needs to give special thanks of number of organizations that made this program possible today. Especially Trinity Church, who hosts this partners with great spirit and great support con c and the members of the haha society and the board of directors all worked hard to bring this together. We had 32 events and 20 locations over 10 days. And it took everyones support and encouragement. The haha society joins two honor hamiltons life and his legacy. In that light to the Awareness Society will be presenting the first hamilton legacy award to ri richard for his two decades of his work to educate the public. The revival of history can be traced to mr. Brookheisers work, ill give you four examples. After reading about and writing a studying a book, he saw that, wow, theres someone, a right hand aid and man in his life, Alexander Hamilton became intrigued and wrote a tremendous book in 1999. The book is only 220 pages long, that d