This exhibition will highlight the histories of 100 notable examples of silver from the New-York Historical Society’s collection, ranging from domestic family heirlooms to acknowledged touchstones in the evolution of American silversmithing. Made across the span of four centuries, the objects in the exhibition tell a diversity of stories and speak to themes of individual accomplishment, family pride, silver consumption patterns, technological progress and innovation, rituals of presentation, and the commemoration of great events in peace and war.