New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-25
Bic Exhibition
OF Pilgrim Relics
Being Arranged
Sulgraye Institute Planning
Display al Chief Museums
Here and i'm Principal
Cities Throughout Country

Exhibitions Of relics which have
come down from the Pilgrim and Puri
tan settlements in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island are being arranged by
museums, it was announced yesterday
in connection with the tercentenarv
celebration this summer and fall of
the landing Of the Pilgrims and the
founding of free institutions in
America
A committee of the Sulgrave Insti-
tute is in charge of the arrangements
with Dr. George Frederick Kunz, the
best known authority in the United
States on precious stones, directing
them. Many of the best collectors
librarians and directors of museums
in the country have agreed to coop
crate. They are:
of the New York Public Library;
Charles D. Atkins, director Of the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences; John w. Beatty, director OF
fine arts of Carnegie Institute, Pitts
burgh; Alphonso T. Clearwater, Kings
ton, N. Y, we'll known collector of
Colonial silver; Robert w. De Forest
president of the Metropolitan Museum
of Fine Arts; Charles A. Ditmas, presi-
dent of the Kings County Historical
Society; DR.. John H. Finley, president
of tho University of the State of New
York; Alfred Fowler, secretary Of the
American Bcokplate Society; William
H. Fox, director Of the Brooklyn Mu-
of the Children's Museum of Brooklyn;
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American Geographical Society; Au-
eustus Healy, president of the Brook
Ign Institute of Arts and Sciences; DR.
Alexander Crombie, Humphreys, presi-
dent of Stevens Ihstitute; Robert H
Kelby, librarian of the New York His
torical Society; Harold l.. Madison
curator of the Park Museum, Provi-
dence; Leila Mechlin. of the American
Federation of Arts, Washington;
Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of
the American Museum of Natural His
tory, New York; DR.. Charles Pence
curator of the Park Memorial Museum
brarian of the Library Of Congress;
Edward Wigglesworth, director of the
Boston Society of Natural History, and
Miss Belle Da Costa Green, Librarian
of the Morgan Library.
One of the largest exhibitions will
be in the Library of Congress, which
has an unusually valuable store of
colonial curios, and Herbert Putnam,
the librarian, has offered to arrange
large collections that will be changed
from time to time, SO that many phases
of the early colonial life may be dealt
with.
There will be large exhibitions in
New York at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and at the Brooklyn museums.
The book exhibits will contain many
of the rare old books of the early days,
such as the Bay Psalm Book, which
was used by the Pilgrims, and books
that have aroused the amusement of
many generations, such as the New
England Primer, which Paul Leicester
Ford once wrote book about. A COL
lection that will interest all children
and their mothers will be that of the
Childrcn's Museum in Brooklyn, where
Miss Gallup has promised to get to-
gether with explanatory cards some
colonial spinning wheels, warming
pans, furniture and bedspreads. The
high cost of living was not problem
'then. Each home was self-sustaining.
One of the unusual collections planned
is that of old colonial bank notes, many
of which bear the imprint of B. Frank
lin and D. Hall, his partner in the
printing business which the indus
trious Benjamin set up for himself in
Philadelphia.