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The Met Marks 100 Years of Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kill Furniture Shop

11 Oct 2026 9:00 a.m. · Source: Met Museum

A new Met exhibition celebrates the centennial of Val-Kill Industries, the furniture workshop founded by Eleanor Roosevelt and fellow activists in Hyde Park, New York, in 1926.

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