The Great Migration
Three photographs that document the experience of Black women and girls migrating from the rural South to Chicago.
The Casket Girls
This kind of trunk was provided to the poor, orphaned, and imprisoned French women who were shipped to colonial Louisiana to marry French settlers.
Frontier Diplomacy
This engraving illustrates George Washington’s meeting with Seneca leader Queen Aliquippa, an important ally of the British during the French and Indian War.
Professional Portraitist
Two works by artist Henrietta Johnston, the first professional female portraitist in the English colonies, illustrate the fashions and values of the eighteenth-century colonies.
Evacuating the Colonies
This ledger records the biographical information about every enslaved or free Black person who evacuated New York with the British at the end of the war.
Life Story: Lady Deborah Moody
The story of an English religious refugee who funded and founded her own settlement in New Netherland.
Life Story: Margrieta van Varick
A Dutch merchant woman who traveled the world before settling in Flatbush and opening a shop to sell luxury goods.
Catalina Trico
One of New Netherland’s first settlers recounts her earliest memories of life in the colony.