Partners

The Peoria Riverfront Museum

The Peoria Riverfront Museum, our main museum partner, and filmmaker Ken Burns, guest curator. Opening on January 31, 2026, the exhibit will feature art and historic objects on loan from Alice Walton’s Art Bridges and Crystal Bridges Museum, Colonial Williamsburg, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and other institutional and private collectors.

Sail4th 250

Sail4th 250 is bringing tall sailing ships and naval vessels from 30 nations to help celebrate America’s 250th birthday. The fleet will visit New Orleans, Norfolk, Baltimore, Boston, New York and New Jersey (hosting the primary national celebration in New York Harbor on July 4, 2026). 

The South Street Seaport Museum

The South Street Seaport Museum, hosting the Promise of Liberty satellite exhibit from June to October, 2026.

Bloomberg Connects

Bloomberg Connects is providing the gallery app.

Seth Kaller

Seth Kaller is a leading expert in acquiring, authenticating, and appraising important American documents and artifacts. He works with individuals and institutions to build major collections and coordinate exhibits particularly focusing on what he calls Instruments of Freedom.

He started in the collectibles trade in his family’s rare stamp and coin business. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, Seth approached Lewis Lehrman and (through Lew) Dick Gilder with the idea of forming an American History collection that would grow in value and be exhibited and preserved.

As exclusive acquisitions agent, Seth spent nearly 20 years building the collection and managing the donation of 65,000 documents to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on deposit at the New-York Historical Society, a nonprofit organization supporting the study and love of American history. GLIAH’s programs are now used in 32,000 affiliated schools. Their EduHam partnership with Broadway’s HAMILTON went online due to Covid, allowing 400,000 students around the country to participate in 2021.

Seth has acquired for clients the most important Declaration of Independence imprints, U.S. Constitution working drafts and one of Benjamin Franklin’s signed copies, Washington and Jefferson and Adams letters on religion and government, Robert E. Lee’s proposal of surrender, Einstein’s earliest surviving letter and first scientific paper, Clement Moore’s A Visit From St. Nicholas, unique paintings, and rare political and historic artifacts. He has handled most of the Lincoln-signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, and every Lincoln-signed copy of the 13th Amendment to have come on the market in the last 40 or more years.

Documents Seth has handled have been exhibited at, or acquired by, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Constitution Center, the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the American Revolution, the Atlanta History Center, Federal Hall National Memorial, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Monticello, Harvard, Yale, the University of Virginia, Rice University, the Lincoln Museum, and Presidential Libraries, National Parks sites and other notable institutions.

Seth is a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, The Professional Autograph Dealers Association, and the Manuscript Society.

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