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Exploring the Anthony Family Collection, A Recent Donation to the MHS

  • Millbrook Library 3 Friendly Lane Millbrook, NY, 12545 United States (map)

This month’s program will focus on a collection of material from the Duncan/Anthony Family that was donated to the historical society last summer.  The material includes many family photographs, postcards, letters, datebooks, and ephemera.  The presentation will cover multiple generations of the family beginning in the middle of the 19th century and going up to the late 20th century, but will revolve around a Black woman, Sarah Duncan, who worked as a laundress and cook in the houses of many of the prominent Gilded Age families that made Millbrook their home around the turn of the20th century.  The program will be an opportunity to examine Millbrook’s history during that period from a different perspective than the one many of us are accustomed to and examine what is possible to discover – and what remains hidden - from a trove of family artifacts.