Transfer-printed pearlware fragment

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY (1987)

August 1985

A sheet midden deposited between 1845 and 1900 was uncovered in a natural depression to the west of the Matron's Cottage on the former grounds of Sailors' Snug Harbor, one of the first retirement homes in the United States ...

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Architecture through Artifacts

6 Objects

As New York City has been part of global trade since the city’s inception in the early 17th century, studying the objects people kept in their homes can reveal important shifts in this trade. The ceramics that ...