Morris Studio: The Unseen Collection, Photographs of Southampton 1892-1940 was an exhibit we put on from August 22, 2018 until August 3,...

(MARY) MILLICENT ABIGAIL ROGERS (1902-1953) By the time the stunning granddaughter of Standard Oil magnate Henry Huddleston Rogers Sr....

FRANCES (TANTY) BREESE MILLER 1893-1985 Frances Breese Miller lives a life in two acts. In the first, she is born into the mannered...

GRACE CLARKE NEWTON - The Poet There is mystery and romance in Grace Clarke Newton’s story, though as the daughter of the noted...

THE CRYDER TRIPLETS - THE CELEBRITY SISTERS b: 1882 (Edith, d: 1954; Ethel, d: 1964; Elsie, d: 1981) Cryder Memorial Window, St. Andrew’s...

CONSUELO VANDERBILT BALSAN (1877-1964) - THE PAWN Consuelo Vanderbilt was a willowy beauty of 17 when the 26-year-old Frenchman and...

During the summer of 2019 our two interns, Conor and Gina, worked on various projects and events and helped to breakdown and install a...

Rose de Rose (1902-1982) The High Society Misfit Left - Rose de Rose with her father at 6 and a half years old Right - Rose de Rose with...

Ruth Wales du Pont (1887-1967) Ruth Wales, born in 1889, is raised in Hyde Park, New York, and spends much of her adult life in Delaware...

Louisa Van Renssalaer Robb Livingston (1877-1960) In light of her later reputation as a fierce defender of Old Guard ways, and a sharp...

Lily Whitney Barney (1852-1946) The Dedicated Socialite Now, while the museum remains closed, I have been deepening my research into the...

John and Morgan, our 2018 Summer Interns, spent a lot of their time with us creating this virtual exhibit for our social media accounts...

A few weeks ago we started including the staff lectures in our blog posts as a means to digitally archive everything we produce in one...

JESSIE WOOLWORTH DONAHUE - THE STRIVER (1886-1971) In the sad saga of Jessie Woolworth Donahue’s life, there is dramatic proof that money...

This online exhibit was created entirely by our four Summer Interns in 2017 (Hannah, Charlotte, Annabel and Emily) who ranged at the time...

If you missed my talk on Caroline Helen Parrish Brown you can watch the recording below. Or keep scrolling and you can view all the...

In 2016 our former Curator, Emma Ballou, had the idea of highlighting some objects from our collection that one could easily walk right...

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...

Southampton Under Siege was the first exhibit I helped create when I started at the Southampton History Museum in 2016. The majority of...

Exhibit previously on display from March 7 to December 31, 2015