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Recent Gift to the Museum!
This barn loom was donated in memory of Flora... MORE
A baseball uniform of the Potsdam Indians of the old Northern New York Amateur League has been donated by Dan Hurley who played center field for the team from 1951 through 1954.
The Potsdam Public Museum has recently received a... MORE
Spring Harp Concert Success!
On Sunday April 14th more than 50 enthusiastic... MORE
Spring Concert - Selections from Members of the Crane Harp Ensemble - Sunday - April 14th - 2PM
Members of the Crane Harp Ensemble, under the... MORE
HISTORY AT NOON March 19th Presentation and Book signing: University of New York at Potsdam!
Tuesday, March 19th at Noon - Jane... MORE
Nancy Blodgett Friend of the Museum 1935-2013
The Museum lost a real Friend of the museum on... MORE
Potsdam Pee Wee Hockey 1966-67
Potsdam Pee Wee Hockey Team1966-67, with Coach... MORE
Unusual paper dolls from the Museum Collection!
Unusual Paper Dolls!The Potsdam Antique Study... MORE
Maple Sugar Seasons Past!
MAPLE SUGAR SEASON!This may be our earliest image... MORE
Betty Weeks remembrance image!
Betty Weeks (center) with friends Mary Theisen... MORE
Feb 28th Betty Weeks Remembrance!
Remembering Betty Weeks- she passed way one year... MORE
Genealogy Alert: Updated list of family surnames now online!
The staff at the Potsdam Museum has taken great... MORE
JANUARY - COLLECTIONS CARE AND INVENTORY MONTH - OPEN regular hours Friday and Saturday and by appointment Tues - Thursday!
January is collections care and inventory month... MORE
Victorian Christmas-Victorian Style: Guided School Tours
December 4 through the 13th Guided School tours... MORE
Sandstone Festival a Great Success
The 2012 Sandstone Festival was a great success.... MORE
Potsdam Sandstone Festival
POTSDAM SANDSTONE... MORE
Potsdam High School Mega Reunion!
Potsdam High School Mega Reunion August 10,... MORE
Summer Festival IVES PARK SATURDAY
Visit the museum booth at the summer festival... MORE
Friends of the Museum Annual Meeting June 24th 2PM
The Friends of the Museum annual meeting and... MORE
Walnut Telephone c. 1907 by Western Electric - Donated to Museum
Dorothy Gordanier wanted the museum to have this... MORE
Garden Program Thursday May 17th at 7pm
The Cecilie Garden is located in Lehman Park,... MORE
Spinning and Weaving Program offered to Area Fourth Graders - June 5-8th
Area Fourth Grader teachers are encouraged to... MORE
Tri-corner Hat Now on display
This Tri-corner hat is made of felted beaver and... MORE
Museum staff inventories and photographs local sandstone buildings
Museum intern, Courtney Doyle, who will be... MORE
Maple Sugaring photos from the archives are on view at the Maple Run Emporium, Market Street, Potsdam.
This image taken round 1895 shows a group of... MORE
Spinning Demonstration
SPINNING DEMONSTRATION- On Saturday, Feb 18 from... MORE
Civil War Round Table
Sunday- January 29 at 2pmThe St. Lawrence County... MORE
INVENTORY in Progress!
The museum has been conducting inventory this... MORE
Gift of Amish Bookshelves
On a snowy January morning a group of volunteers... MORE
Phi Kappa Sigma donates time to the museum
Members of Clarkson's Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity... MORE
White family donates Fire Chief's uniform to museum.
Louis White (1923-2011) was a long time resident... MORE
Onondaga Hill Antiques Club visits the museum.
Twenty-five members of the Onondaga Hill Antiques... MORE
Vivian I. Proper and daughter Jane Whyland visit the Burnap Collection of English Ceramics.
In 1940, Frank and Harriet Burnapdonated a... MORE
Museum Director, Mimi Van Deusen attends the Museum Institute at Sagamore.
The Friends of the Museum, funded a trip for the... MORE
Elephants roamed Potsdam 122 years ago!
On a warm August night in 1889, Barnum and Bailey... MORE
A History of the Potsdam Town and Country Club:1921- 2010 was recently presented to the museum by co-author Diane Hansen.
... MORE
SUMMER FESTIVAL 2011
POTSDAM SUMMER FESTIVAL !Many thanks to all the... MORE
Volunteers and museum staff reconstruct a barn loom from early 1800's.
THE COVER-UP: Coverlets, Looms and Spinning... MORE
Friends of the Potsdam Museum Annual Meeting - Sunday June 12 at 2 PM
The public is invited to attend the annual... MORE
CANOES ON THE RACQUETTE RIVER 1884
This image was taken on the Racquette River near... MORE
High Water State of Emergency
MAYOR DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN POTSDAM2pm... MORE
North Country Heritage and Hardy Roses
THURSDAY MAY 5TH7 PMNorth Country Heritage... MORE
Volunteers Help with Quilt Inventory
FRIENDSHIP QUILTc. 1880-90Diamond PatternMade by... MORE
Dorothy Gordanier and her daughter Tenny Czerpak at home in one of the earliest Potsdam sandstone dwellings.
Dorothy Gordanier who reached 100 years of age in... MORE
ICE COLD POTSDAM EXHIBIT Through March 31st
ICE COLD POTSDAM- A history of Ice Skating, Ice... MORE
Saturday March 12, 2011 Book signing and presentation of ADIRONDACK ICE 2 PM
ADIRONDACK ICE: Slide show and Book Signing by... MORE
Recent Paintings William Beebe Feb 25th and Feb 26th Reception Friday 5-8 PM
William Beebe, local artist will feature RECENT... MORE
William Allen Dart comes home to Potsdam!
On Saturday February 12, 2011 Peter Dart of... MORE
Holiday Open House 2010
Potsdam High School Jazz Band with director... MORE
Family Archives at the Museum
Gary Grahling and his wife Diane (Dewey)... MORE
This Amish made oak table and chairs are a recent gift to the museum from The Sweetgrass Foundation.
For the young and the young at heart, there is a... MORE
SECOND ANNUAL SANDSTONE FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 15-19th 2010
Wednesday, September 15th 7 PM SOAR presents... MORE
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
War of 1812 Uniform Coat on exhibit
Brought to light during the January inventory of the collection:
Now on display is a War of 1812 coat, donated in 1953, that belonged to the donors great-great grandfather, Shubel Clark of Canton, NY. According to the donors information, from the Library of Congress and a historian at Fort Ticonderoga. Shubel Clark was drafted on June 8, 1812 and served as a private in a company of Detached Militia at Ogdensburg, NY.
Recently museum curator, Mimi Van Deusen and intern, Courtney Doyle took the coat to Albany to be authenticated by Historian Joe Thatcher. Thatcher is a
Mr. Thatcher identified the uniform to be that of an officer as evidenced by the gold twist on the false button-holes, collar and cuffs. The wool used to make the coat is of a "super-fine" quality and likely to be English as the wool produced in the states at the time was a lesser weave and available in the colors drab, gray, black and brown. Brass buttons, such as these, were used on artillery uniforms.
Anyone wishing to add to our research of this uniform, Potsdam and the War of 1812 or Shubel Clark (also spelled Sheubel Clark) is welcome to send documented information to the museum by email to: museum @vi.potsdam.ny.us or postal service at: Potsdam Public Museum, P.O. Box 5168, Potsdam, NY 13676.
Thank you.
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