Executive Director's subject and correspondence files, 1969-1979.

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Executive Director's subject and correspondence files, 1969-1979.

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This series consists of subject and correspondence files created by the executive director's office of the New York American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. Three executive directors served consecutively during the span of the commission (1969-1979): Louis Leonard Tucker, Thomas E. Felt, and Richard S. Allen.

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New York State Archives

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Felts, Thomas Edward

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Tucker, Louis Leonard, 1927-....

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Allen, Richard Sanders, 1917-2008

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New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

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Using a variety of funding, a railroad car transport barge was remodeled and outfitted at Brewer's Shipyard on Staten Island and furnished with exhibits designed by the firm Johnson Hehr Nehin. The resulting New York Festival Barge, the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission's largest public program, transported a floating educational exhibit entitled "This Glorious Cause" and a crew of performers and craft demonstrators. A total of 912,887 people visited the barge ...