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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Mining the Archives: The Citizen Inventor
Thursday, December 19, 2024
6:00 PM ET
Virtual Program
Free
Including over 5,400 linear feet of material, the New York Transit Museum’s archive holds innumerable stories waiting to be told. In the series, Mining the Archives, join Museum staff to uncover transit history.
2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the New York City Board of Transportation, the first time that governance of New York City’s mass transit was centralized and localized; thereby creating an entity to which New Yorkers could air grievances and offer opinions. This edition of Mining the Archives features early proposals from ordinary people to the Board, detailing ideas to improve the transit system. The recommendations range from the practical to the fantastical, and offer insight into the specific concerns, inventive spirit, and amateur technological prowess of New Yorkers who lived a century ago.
Free
All attendees are welcome. You will have the option to turn on automatic captions for this virtual program. Staff will share instructions for how to do so at the start of the event. Please email [email protected] for any accessibility-related questions.
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Image: Detail of a vertical “airway” rail proposal submitted to Board of Transportation. From the Board of Transportation Collection of the New York Transit Museum.
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