The collection at the New York State Museum in Albany has a large piece of landing gear that went through the roof and landed in the basement of a building next to 51 Park Place.

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She learned from New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs that Smith, at 37 years old, enrolled as an Army private at Lansingburg in 1862.

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Philadelphia's Museum of Art, the Corning Glass Museum (in New York state) and London's mighty Victoria and Albert where a major Art Nouveau exhibition opens next April have all loaned Nancy pieces for its exhibitions.

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Called, rather long-windedly, the Museum of Glass and International Centre for Contemporary Art , it doesn't yet compete with the Corning Museum of Glass in New York state.

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Two years later he announced a partnership with the State University of New York for a 50, 000-square-foot museum, but that deal fell through.

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And with that he was off to his home for a nap, before returning to the museum that evening to escort the secretary of state and the cream of New York society through the history of American art.

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