COLUMBIA LIBRARIES OFFSITE 
 
 AVERY FINE ARTS RESTRICTED 
 
 Gracie Mansion, Home of the Museum of the City of New York 
 
 THE OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 
 
 Have the Honor to bivite You 
 
 to become a member of the new Museum of the City of New 
 York, located in the Gracie Mansion at the foot of 88th Street, 
 East River, in Carl Schurz Park. 
 
 The City gives the use of this old Colonial building, situated in a 
 twelve-acre park, commanding a superb view of Hell Gate and the 
 East River. It also appropriates in its discretion for the upkeep, and 
 for the care of the grounds. 
 
 London and Paris have similar institutions, and our Museum will 
 be modeled somewhat along their lines. 
 
 The object of the museum is to promote a greater interest in the 
 Annals of Old New York, and to quicken civic pride in her glorious 
 past. To that end, collections of historic material — Furniture, 
 
Silver, Prints, Engravings, Lithographs, Photographs, Costumes, 
 etc. — and all objects closely identified with the more intimate his- 
 tory of our City, are respectfully solicited. 
 
 In particular the Museum desires, in commemoration of the 
 
 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF NEW YORK. (1926) 
 
 to Photograph every building now standing that belongs to the 19th 
 Century. It also hopes to go further, and include every street in the City, 
 so that by 1926 there will be a complete record of how New York looked 
 on her Three Hundredth Birthday. 
 
 Bronze Marking Tablets. Many important places are without reminders 
 of their former state of existence. An elaborate plan to remedy this de- 
 fect is on our program. 
 
 Marine Room. The fame of the Liverpool Packets, the China Tea Ships, 
 and the celebrated Clippers, and all that picturesque period in the "Roar- 
 ing Forties," when the Yankee Ship was Queen of the Seas, should be 
 prominently featured by Models, Log Books, Compasses and other re- 
 minders of these square rigged beauties of long ago. 
 
 Entertainments and Lectures, by various eminent writers, historians, old- 
 est inhabitants, and anybody who can talk intelligently and interest- 
 ingly on Old New York, will be prominently featured. Stereopticon views 
 and Moving Pictures of unusual value will be presented from time to 
 time. Every lecture, Talk or Entertainment of any kind in this Museum, 
 will relate wholly and exclusively to New York City. 
 
 Please make your check payable to Henry Richmond Taylor, Treasurer, 
 Museum of the City of New York, Gracie Mansion, foot 88th Street, 
 East River, New York, for whichever class you select. 
 
 CLASSES OF MEMBERSHIP 
 Regular Members $10.00 Life Members $100.00 
 
 Sustaining " 25.00 Fellows 250.00 
 
 Founders $1,000.00 
 
 Benefactors 5,000.00 
 
OFFICERS 
 
 President: 
 Vice-Pres .: 
 Treasurer: 
 Secretary: 
 Asst. Treas.: mr. guy emerson 
 
 HON. PHOENIX INGRAHAM 
 HON. VICTOR J. DOWLING 
 MR. HENRY RICHMOND TAYLOR 
 MR. ROBERT LE ROY 
 
 TRUSTEES 
 
 HON. PHOENIX INGRAHAM 
 HON. VICTOR J. DOWLING 
 MR. HENRY RICHMOND TAYLOR 
 MR. JAMES SPEYER 
 MR. GEORGE A. ZABRISKIE 
 MR. WM. RHINELANDER STEWART 
 MR. HENRY W. TAFT 
 COL. MICHAEL FRIEDSAM 
 MR. HENRY R. TOWNE 
 MR. LEWIS GOUVERNEUR MORRIS 
 MR. JOHN McE. BOWMAN 
 MR. FRANK BAILEY 
 MR. JOHN R. VOORHIS 
 MR. ROBERT LE ROY 
 MR. HENRY COLLINS BROWN 
 Ex officio: THE MAYOR, THE COMPTROLLER 
 AND THE PARK COMMISSIONER 
 
 Director: mr. henry collins brown 
 
 FOUNDERS 
 
 MR. ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON 
 
 MRS. ANDREW CARNEGIE 
 
 MR. EDWIN GOULD 
 
 MR. HENRY RICHMOND TAYLOR 
 
 MR. JAMES SPEYER 
 
 MR. GEORGE A. ZABRISKIE 
 
 MRS. JOHN STEWART KENNEDY 
 
 MR. HENRY R. TOWNE 
 
 MR. FRANK BAILEY 
 
WOMEN'S COMMITTKK 
 
 MRS. JOSEPH BLAKE, Chairman 
 
 MRS. SCHUYLER VAN RENSSELAER 
 
 MRS. HENRY CARNEGIE PHIPPS 
 
 MISS MARY KERNOCHAN 
 
 MRS. HENRY ROGERS WINTHROP 
 
 MRS. JOSEPH LAROCQUE 
 
 MRS. ROBERT McCURDY 
 
 MRS. ELIZABETH THOMAS 
 
 MRS. HENRY BULL 
 
 MRS. ALICE DUER MILLER 
 
 MRS. RUSSEL HASTINGS 
 
 MISS CAROLINE DUER 
 
 MRS. ADOLF LADENBERG