Displays & Exhibits

New Exhibits

The Historical Society of the Nyacks presents:

The Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Factory

curated by Patricia Condello and Karen Kennell
in the display cases in the Carnegie Room
(Through February 2012)

The Curators with Peter Waldron who donated material for the exhibit from the family collection.

Tom Hackett worked at Wilcox & Gibbs

Note from the Curators:
We gratefully acknowledge Peter Waldron and Betsy Turk for their generous loan of these original photos.  We also thank Tom Hackett, James Hershberger, Hugh Goodman and Brian Jennings for their help with this exhibit.  If you can identify any of the workers at Wilcox & Gibbs in the photos, please contact the Historical Society  at 845-418-4430.