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Date: November 25, 2011 through January 08, 2012
Ages: All Ages

Address:
170 Central Park West (77 St.)
New York, NY 10024

Phone: 212-873-3400
Website: www.nyhistory.org

Description: To celebrate the winter season, the New-York Historical Society is presenting It Happened Here: The Invention of Santa Claus, an installation tracing the modern image of Santa Claus, the red-suited, pot-bellied descendant of the medieval bishop St. Nicholas of Myra, which emerged only decades after the first Congress met in 1788 in Federal Hall in New York. The exhibition features Robert Weir's 1837 painting of a rather sly St. Nicholas and Thomas Nast's Harper's Weekly cartoons of Santa. Clement Clarke Moore's desk is on display in the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture.

Upcoming Events at New-York Historical Society:

• Little New-Yorkers - 05/01/12 - 06/30/13
  
• WWII & NYC - 10/08/12 - 05/27/13
  
• Pop Shop Tokyo - 01/29/13 - 06/02/13
  
• Macy's Sunday Story Time - 04/01/13 - 06/30/13
  
• Cross-Stitch Circle - 05/30/13
  
• CIRCUS-IN-A-SUITCASE WITH KEVIN O�KEEFFE - 06/02/13
  
• Cross-Stitch Circle - 06/06/13
  
• AIDS in New York: The First Five Years - 06/07/13 - 09/15/13
  
• From Colony to Nation: 200 Years of American Painting - 06/07/13 - 09/08/13
  
• Children With AIDS: 1990-2000 - 06/07/13 - 09/15/13
  
• HABLEMOS DE LA HISTORIA Y DEL ARTE: LAS LAMPARAS DE TIFFANY - 06/08/13
  
• Cross-Stitch Circle - 06/13/13
  
• Cross-Stitch Circle - 06/20/13
  
• Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York - 06/21/13 - 09/01/13
  
• SUMMER FAMILY FILM SERIES: MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN - 06/23/13
  
• Cross-Stitch Circle - 06/27/13
  
• SUMMER FAMILY FILM SERIES: WEST SIDE STORY - 06/30/13
  
• Beauty's Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America - 09/27/13 - 03/09/14
  
• The Armory Show at 100 - 10/11/13 - 02/23/14
  
• The Black Fives - 03/14/14 - 07/20/14
  

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