and Civil Rights struggles in the North, West, and Midwest.

Join us in person or online January 22 at 12:15 pm for “Challenging the Conventional Narrative of Civil Rights History.”
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records do survive. The Springfield Museums currently have a collection of six portraits, and more can be seen at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

soon had its own following.

Over the years, the Company changed hands, at first acquired by the Shulton Division of American Cyanamid in the early 1960s and then by the giant Dial Corporation in the 1990s. Although the Breck Company no longer exists, many of its original portraits and business...

and his first Breck Girl appeared in 1957.

By the 1960s, Breck Shampoo enjoyed a full 20% market share of all shampoo and hair care sales. The elegant gold foil packaging was just as recognizable as the Breck Girls themselves. Baby care products had also been added, and the “Breck Baby” line...

depicted wholesome, poised, and ultra feminine women made more beautiful by their use of “Beautiful Hair Breck” products. Breck family members, neighbors, and employees were most often used as models for the campaign. Upon Sheldon’s retirement, another artist, Ralph William Williams, was hired...

Alphonse Mucha. He was also living and working in Springfield at the time. Sheldon was already well known for his portraits of movie stars for Photoplay magazine, his early covers for Parents, and his advertising art for Fox Shoes and Fiberloid toiletry items. Sheldon’s pastel portraits for Breck...

when the Company began nationally distributing and advertising its products. During the 1930s, Edward Breck tapped famed commercial artist Charles Gates Sheldon for the Company’s advertising art. Charles Sheldon was born in Worcester, studied in Paris, and trained under the famous poster artist...

shampoo in 1930, it was his son Edward Breck who took the Company national and whose management birthed the “Breck Girl” advertising campaign.

Breck products were initially sold exclusively in New England beauty salons and advertising appeared only in trade publications. This changed in 1946...

Developed in collaboration with National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, NASA, MATHCOUNTS, National Society of Professional Engineers, and Society of Women Engineers.

Sponsored locally by bankESB and M&T Bank. Season supporter is MassMutual.

Join us for the opening celebration on Saturday, January 24, and get sporty with additional hands-on activities, free with museum admission:
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Featured: Myrna Báez (1931-2018), My Mother's Table, 2003, oil on canvas, frame: 47 3/4 × 61 5/8 in. (121.3 × 156.5 cm) Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc. Collection of Rosario Ferré Ramírez de Arellano.

September 6:
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Generously lent by Museo de Arte de Ponce as part of Art Bridges’ Partner Loan Network. Exhibition sponsored locally by Connecticut Public.

Witch Panic! is sponsored by New England Public Media and St. Germain Investment Management, with support from the Springfield Cultural Council and Mass Cultural Council. Season supporter: MassMutual.

Explore the documents, testimony, and historical context behind one of Massachusetts’ earliest witch trials before the exhibition closes Sunday, February 1:
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Featured: Longcase Clock (1765), mahogany case with oak secondary wood, weight-powered, eight-day movement with hour strike on a bell, animation in arch of brass dial, by Thomas Brett (London, England; 1747-1809). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Fuller, Jr., 91.F01.

all, moving eyes. The molded base, fluted columns stopped with brass, and a pagoda top capped by three gilded wood finials were typical of mid-18th century, elegantly designed London longcase clocks.

Find this clock in the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts.

running and at the same time provide a bit of mystery to the mechanical device. In this particular clock, the figures of Adam, Eve, and the climbing serpent move with the motion of the pendulum. Other animated parts on the dial include rocking ships, turning windmills, and most eerie of...

view in the museum are Marston’s teapot, two Chippendale chairs and a matching settee, all made in America.

The English clock features various forms of animation. Animation on clock dials in the 18th century was a delightful addition, which could at a glance inform the owner that the clock was...