Back MatterSource: New York History, Vol. 53, No. 3 (JULY 1972)Published by: New York State Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23164714 .

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New York State Historical Association EXECUTIVE OFFICES: Fenimore House, Cooperstown, New York 13326 The Association was organized in 1899 and since that time has been carrying forward an increasingly active program in many fields of interest to those who are historically minded. Its long list of publications bespeaks its reputa tion for scholarship, its vitalized museums bespeak its keen interest in bring ing to the everyday citizen appreciation of our past. The Association is a

membership organization chartered by the Board of Regents. MEMBERSHIP New members are welcome upon application to the Director. Dues: Annual $7.50; Junior, $2.00. Joint membership, if husband and wife, $7.50, but only one copy of New York History will líe sent for a single payment of $7.50. A member is entitled to New York History (quarterly) and, for an addi tional $1.75 a year, The Yorker (magazine published for our junior mem bers); free admission to the museums; use of the library; discount on books sold in our book shop and certain Association publications; fellowship with others interested in New York State and local history. JUNIOR PROGRAM This statewide program initiates and sponsors local chapters for study of state and local history, promotes conferences and historical writing among students. The Yorker is the junior magazine. LIBRARY A magnificent new library building, dedicated in 1969, houses bibliographi cal materials of special interest to Association members. There are important collections of books, manuscripts, and printed materials on New York State history, rural life, the folk arts and crafts, the history of agriculture and small businesses, and the background of national history. DIXON RYAN FOX FELLOWSHIPS From time to time the Trustees authorize grants to facilitate the publication of manuscripts relating to some aspect of New York State history. These are in memory of the late President of the Association, Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox. PAUL S. KERR HISTORY PRIZE Endowed by Mr. Kerr, and named for him by the board of trustees, this prize—$200 and a handsome scroll—is awarded each year to the best New York History article, as judged by a special trustee committee. SEMINARS The Seminars on American Culture held each summer in Cooperstown are an opportunity for members and others to explore areas of special scholarly interests with nationally known experts. LOCAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS In certain years the Association holds, usually on some college campus, a week-end workshop devoted to various aspects of local history studies and of special value to local historians and members of local history societies. GRADUATE PROGRAMS The State University College at Oneonta in cooperation with the Association offers graduate programs which lead to the Master of Arts degree in Amer ican Folk Culture, History Museum Training and in the Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works. These programs, which draw upon the facilities of both sponsoring institutions, bring some thirty students to Cooperstown each year for a full year of graduate study. AFFILIATE The New York Folklore Society is affiliated with the Association.

THE MUSEUMS FENIMORE HOUSE at Cooperstown specializes in social history, art and folk art of the state. THE FARMERS' MUSEUM at Cooperstown is a museum of New York State folk life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and in cludes the Village Crossroads. THE CARRIAGE AND HARNESS MUSEUM at Cooperstown displays the equipment and vehicles used in sport driving, a sport introduced to America about 1875.

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Guide to Historie Preservation, Historical Agencies And Museum Practices: A Selective Bibliography

By Frederick L. Rath, Jr. and Merrilyri Rogers O'Connell

A successor to the NYSHA Selective Reference Guide to His toric Preservation, this cloth-bound volume presents a compila tion of basic references to historic preservation—the saving and

use of sites, buildings, and objects significant in American his

tory and culture. It also deals with the organizations directly

concerned with historic preservation, with the museums that

many of these organizations administer, with the study and care

of museum collections, and with the educational use of the sites,

buildings, and objects in these collections. Including almost all

the original citations of the NYSHA Guide, the present volume

contains hundreds of additional citations, mainly to new books

and articles published since 1966. It also includes a large num

ber of references omitted in the original Guide because they

were out of print, and which have now been reprinted. A com

prehensive index has also been added. $12.50

Planemakers and Other Edge Tool Enterprises in New York State

in the Nineteenth Century

By Kenneth D. and Jane W. Roberts

This handsome book, richly illustrated by over 250 photographs, drawings, and reproductions, discusses every aspect of edge

toolmaking in general and planemaking in particular. It contains

an extensive series of tables and appendices listing planemakers,

toolmaking centers, distribution centers, workmen, and other

related data. Minor Wine Thomas, Jr., Assistant Director of

NYSHA, says, "Without question this is the best book which

yet has been produced on this subject and it will be of enormous

value to every collector, library, or museum which has an inter

est in American tools." A joint publication of the New York

State Historical Association and the Early American Industries

Association. $20.00

Order from Fenimore Book Store, Cooperstown, N. Y. 13326.

Members receive 10% discount.

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