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Watercolor and ink drawing shows large, white institutional building. People in early 18th-century clothing and two large trees are visible in the foreground.

The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt: A New Book

Posted by: Melissa Lindberg

The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division, with excerpts from the Richard Morris Hunt Research Guide. How do you breathe life into a valuable but under-appreciated and complicated collection from the 1800s?  The Prints & Photographs Division was fortunate to earn the attention of Sam Watters—an exceptional historian of …