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Mexican farm worker in lettuce field

The Way We Worked

The Way We Worked, adapted from an original exhibition developed by the National Archives, explores how work became a central element in American culture by tracing the many changes that affected the workforce and work environments.

September 1 - October 21, 2012
Governor John Langdon House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

October 27, 2012 - December 9, 2012

White Mountains Community College, Berlin, New Hampshire

December 15, 2012 - January 27, 2013
AVA Gallery and Art Center
, Lebanon, New Hampshire

March 23 - May 5, 2013
Museum L-A, Lewiston, Maine

June 29 - August 11, 2013
The Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, Vermont

October 12 - December 1, 2013
Lynn Museum and Historical Society, Lynn, Massachusetts

May 3 - June 15, 2014
The Museum of Work and Culture, Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Rocky Hill Meeting House, Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1785

White on White: Churches of Rural New England

White on White: Churches of Rural New England presents forty images representing early churches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from photographer Steve Rosenthal.

February 13 - May 9, 2012
Adams Gallery at Suffolk University, Boston

June 30 - September 23, 2012
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut

October 6, 2012 - January 27, 2013
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut


 

Cory and her daughter

In History's Wake, The Last Trap Fishermen of Rhode Island

In History's Wake features forty photographs by Markham Starr that capture the stories of the state’s trap fishermen and women.

April 15 - July 15, 2012
The Museum of Work and Culture
, Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Constance Holt in the Parterre Garden at Roseland Cottage

Lost Gardens of New England

The Lost Gardens of New England uses reproduction material to depict New England gardens, great and small, that no longer exist or only partially survive.

June 1 - October 28, 2012
Governor John Langdon House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

 Plymouth Rock Gelatine

Pilgrims, Patriots, and Products: Selling the Colonial Image

Pilgrims, Patriots and Products explores how the marketplace has exploited a mythical image of America's colonial past. This entertaining and thought-provoking panel exhibition examines how advertisers have used romanticized imagery about America's past to sell commercial products, a practice that continues even to this day.

  Preservation Movement Panel

The Preservation Movement Then and Now

Historic New England has developed this engaging panel exhibition that traces the history of the preservation movement in New England.

February 21 - May 12, 2012
The West End Museum, Boston

 

 

Figurehead

The Camera's Coast

The Camera's Coast presents seventy images from the Historic New England collection depicting life along the New England coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


Poster published by H.P. Hood and Sons

From Dairy to Doorstep: Milk Delivery in New England, 1860 - 1960

From Dairy to Doorstep is an entertaining panel exhibition that uses lively graphics and illustrations – including photographs and advertisements associated with milk production, delivery, and consumption – to chronicle the origins of home milk delivery and the heyday of the milkman. View the online version.