3 Exhibitions at the Custom House Maritime Museum in New London

Picturing Us at the Beach: Vintage Photography in the Studio and on the Sand, is comprised of vintage photography from the collection of Lisa Kereszi, a critically acclaimed fine art photographer and educator at the Yale School of Art. Ms Kereszi pairs this collection with a second show — her own images of nearby Little Gull Island, photos taken when she visited the privately owned island in 2024 with the NL Maritime Society. A third exhibition on display in the museum’s Frank. L. McGuire Maritime Research Library is NLMS librarian Laurie Derudita’s annotated 1874 map of the New London waterfront. The map is labeled with the names of the owners of the properties abutting the railway including the wharfs built along the shoreline. Some of the property owners were well-known shipping agents and bankers but other names are more obscure and were identified with the help of the New London directories from the late 19th century and other print and online resources. In Ms Derudita’s exhibit the names on the map are linked to capsule summaries of the lives of these people. The opening of all these shows is free and the public is welcome.

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