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4 days ago
4 min

Family History and Memories

When I was a junior in high school my social studies teacher gave my class an assignment. Mr. Conklin was a passionate genealogist. I rem...

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Zachary Taylor

6 days ago
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This is a prince-nez style set of eyeglasses, popularized during the 19th and early 20th centuries

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Zachary Taylor

Aug 5
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This camera is the No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak, a folding bed camera introduced in 1903

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Connor Flanagan

Aug 4
52 min

Rogers Mansion - Historic Structure Report, 2017

Below we have the Rogers Mansion Historic Structure Report that was done in 2017 by Sally Spanburgh. This is probably one of the most imp...

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Zachary Taylor

Aug 2
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This Westinghouse Radio is known as the Aeriola Senior, first introduced in December of 1921

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Zachary Taylor

Jul 29
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This traveling sewing machine was made by Singer Manufacturing Corporation around 1910

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Connor Flanagan

Jul 28
9 min

Southampton's Whaling Captains

In 2017 we had an exhibit called Hunting the Whale: The Rise and Fall of a Southampton Industry which highlighted the story of a handful ...

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Zachary Taylor

Jul 26
2 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This Model 56 telephone is the specific phone that first came out in 1956 for the national phone company of Belgium

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Zachary Taylor

Jul 22
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This white transferware pitcher by Buffalo Pottery features blue and green flowers on each side.

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Laurie Collins

Jul 21
5 min

Playing in Mud Puddles on John Street

I grew up in the Southampton Village in the 1960’s. It was a wonderful place to grow up. It has changed so much over the years and I feel...

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Zachary Taylor

Jul 19
2 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This green tin truck is the Marx Railway Express, manufactured in 1940.

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Zachary Taylor

Jul 15
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

The Number 5 is an 84 character ribbon machine with glass topped keys.

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Steve Gould

Jul 14
4 min

The Union Iron Clad Monitor "Montauk"

The USS Montauk was one of many iron clad warships develped in the Civil War, named after the eastern lighthouse on Long Island

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Zachary Taylor

Jul 12
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This oil-on-canvas piece depicts the Bathing Corporation of Southampton, measuring at 8 x 12 inches in size.

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Zachary Taylor

Jul 8
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This set of Whist Trays was named after the president of the Duplicate Whist Company President, Cassius M. Paine.

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Mary Cummings

Jul 7
3 min

Richard Barthelmess (1895 - 1963)

For 25 years, as a matinee idol of the silent screen, and later in the “Talkies,” Richard Barthelmess “brought great sighs from women in ...

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Steve Gould

Jul 5
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This watercolor in the Southampton History Museum’s collection was painted by the well-respected architect Grosvenor Atterbury

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Steve Gould

Jul 1
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

Lindy the New Flying Game, first published by Parker Brothers in 1927, was meant to capitalize on the fame of Charles Lindbergh.

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Mary Cummings

Jun 30
4 min

Southampton Horse Association

With all the attention that has been paid to Southampton’s club life in the Gilded Age, how is it that summer society’s infatuation with ...

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Zachary Taylor

Jun 28
1 min

Deep Dive: Exploring the Exhibits

This portrait of an Unidentified Man is depicted wearing a formal black jacket while sitting with hands folded on his lap.

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