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The South Street Seaport Museum has acquired the maritime art and artifact collection of the now-defunct Seamen's Bank for Savings. The collection, put together over 150 years, documents the city's maritime history, with more than 2,000 oil paintings, watercolors, ship models, prints, advertisements, posters, rare books and examples of nautical design and antique toys.
The Seamen's Bank for Savings, founded in 1829, started collecting the artifacts in the mid-19th Century to promote its identity as a seaport bank. The collection specialized in New York art, including portraits of New York-built ships, maps of the harbor and prints of the city.
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