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SUMMARY:Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboy - With Prof. Vincent DiGirolamo
DESCRIPTION:  \nWednesday\, September 30\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EDT on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\nABOUT THIS EVENT \nJoin Baruch College history professor Vincent DiGirolamo in a discussion of his award-winning pictorial study of Victorian America’s most omniferent and unshushable creation: the newsboy. \nDiGirolamo will visually trace the shifting fortunes and influence of these “little merchants” from the rise of the penny press in 1830s New York through the wars\, panics\, and protests of the 19th century\, highlighting how these children—boys and girls\, blacks and whites\, immigrants and natives—became key political actors and symbols in the making of modern America. \nPublished by Oxford University Press in 2019\, the book has garnered rave reviews and several prestigious awards: the Frederick Jackson Turner Award\, given by the Organization of American Historians\, the Philip Taft Labor History Prize\, and the Frank Luther Mott Research Award for best book on journalism and mass communications. \nThe newsboys “now have their Boswell” in DiGirolamo\,” said the Wall Street Journal. “His Crying the News is an encyclopedic account of these heralds of the golden age of newspapers in America.” \n“Monumental\,” said Journalism History. “A well-balanced book that refuses to romanticize its subjects.” \n“Breathtaking\,” said the New England Quarterly. “The author resurrects countless historical characters\, telling their story with ingenuity and grace.” \n  \nPlease register for this event via the Eventbrite link below in order to receive the Zoom meeting link. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/book-talk-on-crying-the-news-a-history-of-americas-newsboy/
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SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Update: Due to concern for the spread of COVID-19\, the Victorian Society New York will be rescheduling all spring events. We will continue to monitor developments and remain grateful to all who are working to mitigate this health concern. Thank you for your understanding.  \nVSNY is making plans for its annual “Emerging Scholars” event this fall\, which will highlight recent scholarship about aspects of 19th-century and early-20th-century culture\, including literature\, architecture\, theater\, fine and decorative art\, politics\, manufacturing\, education\, gender roles\, reform movements\, fashion\, and food. Recent topics for emerging scholars have included celluloid collar advertisements\, New York brothel furniture\, and a mining tycoon’s luxurious dinnerware. Three current university students or recent graduates will give 15-minute presentations. Stay tuned for details of 2020 topics and event scheduling. \nThe Victorian Society New York will present young historians (proposal deadline March 10) at its annual “Emerging Scholars” event on May 20. We support scholarship about every aspect of 19th-century and early-20th-century culture\, including literature\, architecture\, theater\, fine and decorative art\, politics\, manufacturing\, education\, gender roles\, reform movements\, fashion\, and food. Recent topics for emerging scholars have included celluloid collar advertisements\, New York brothel furniture and a mining tycoon’s luxurious dinnerware. Current university students or recent graduates will give 15-minute presentations. Deadline for 200-word proposals (preference given to American/New York topics) and CVs is March 10; email to info@vicsocny.org.\n \nWednesday May 20th\n6:15 lecture\nCheck back later for the new event date. 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-scholars-lecture/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Lecture - Dreicer & Co: Forgotten Jewelers of the Gilded Age
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Lecture – Dreicer & Co: Forgotten Jewelers of the Gilded Age \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here. \nPlease join us for an online lecture via Zoom video conferencing. \nWednesday May 6th\n6:30 PM \nPlease RSVP on Eventbrite to receive the event link. \nThis lecture will explore the history of elite jewelry firm Dreicer & Company. Founded by Jewish immigrants shortly after the Civil War\, the company began in a tenement laundry room\, and ended in a 5th Avenue flagship designed by Warren & Wetmore.  Although the brand is somewhat obscure today\, by the turn of the twentieth century Dreicer & Company ranked alongside prestigious houses such as Cartier and Tiffany & Co.\, and boasted the nation’s wealthiest businessmen and U.S. presidents as patrons. Dreicer was celebrated for their intricate garland-style platinum mountings\, singular strands of pearls\, and ability to procure rare and historic gemstones. In addition to operating their jewelry business\, the Dreicer family invested in real estate and developed properties along Fifth Avenue\, and left a substantial collection of Renaissance & Medieval Art to the Metropolitan Museum.  \n  \n  \n \nSpeaker Bio: \nAnna Rasche is a gemologist and independent jewelry historian based in New York City. She holds an MA in the History of Design & Curatorial Studies from Cooper Hewitt/Parsons\, a Graduate Gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America\, and a BA in archaeology from Boston University. She is also co-founder of the Society for the Advancement of Social Studies\, a history lecture series that has been bringing good times and fun facts to museums and bars around the city since 2011.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/virtual-lecture-dreicer-co-forgotten-jewelers-of-the-gilded-age/
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SUMMARY:Croquet's Cheating Women
DESCRIPTION:Update: Due to concern for the spread of COVID-19\, the Victorian Society New York will be postponing all spring events.  We will continue to monitor developments and remain grateful to all who are working to mitigate this growing health concern. When possible\, we hope to be able to reschedule all our postponed events. Thank you for your understanding. \nIn the 1860s\, the British sport of croquet caught on in America\, “especially with Ladies\,” as one newspaper put it. Although the outdoor activity was supposedly noncompetitive and centered on socializing\, it actually stirred up bitter arguments\, particularly about women’s behavior on the lawns. \nJon Sterngass\, a Saratoga Springs-based writer specializing in children’s nonfiction\, has uncovered evidence that certain croquet strokes were perceived as a form of symbolic castration\, and that women were constantly accused of cheating at croquet by double-tapping\, concealing balls under skirts\, or hitting while opponents weren’t looking. Sterngass will lecture on how the sport evolved as it was popularized nationwide\, and how gender expectations shaped public perceptions. Find out how Victorian women\, while posed on pedestals as paragons of virtue\, actually played on the grassy courts to win. \nTuesday\, April 21\n6:15-8 pm (with reception/refreshments) \nSvenska Kyrkan \n5 East 48th Street\nNYC 10017 \nTickets can be purchased here \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/croquets-cheating-women/
LOCATION:5 East 48th Street\, 5 East 48th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200324T181500
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SUMMARY:How the Emerald Oasis Came to Be
DESCRIPTION:The Central Park: Original Designs for New York’s Greatest Treasure (Abrams)\, a new book by New York City Municipal Archives conservator and art historian Cynthia S. Brenwall\, is an eye-opening and magisterial study of how Manhattan’s beloved oasis was born. Based on previously unpublished documentation of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s visions\, Brenwall’s lecture will explore original competition entries and designs for buildings\, fixtures\, and infrastructure that created pastoral and seemingly primeval landscapes. She will offer insights into how much engineering fine-tuning and big-picture aesthetic imagination went into every landscape decision\, and how much 19th-century evidence survives in a well-used public space. \nSvenska Kyrkan \nTuesday\, March 24\n6:15-8 pm (with reception/refreshments)\n5 East 48th Street\nNYC 10017 \n  \nTickets can be purchased here \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/how-the-emerald-oasis-came-to-be/
LOCATION:5 East 48th Street\, 5 East 48th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fund Concert
DESCRIPTION:The Victorian Society New York invites you to a concert to benefit the Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage. \nMonday March 9th at 6:30 – 8:30 pm\nBloomingdale School of Music\n323 W 108th St\, New York\, NY 10025 \nDoors at 6:30 pm\nPerformance begins at 6:45 pm in the David Greer Recital Hall\nReception to follow\nTickets: $50 – $1\,000 \nFrom parlor to porch and from pleasure garden to concert hall\, Linda Russell sings the tunes and tells the stories of Victorian New York. Accompanying herself on dulcimer and guitar\, she explores the era through love songs\, patriotic anthems\, minstrel tunes\, hymns and Stephen Foster Melodies. \nHaving served for many years as a balladeer for the National Park Service at Federal Hall on Wall Street\, Ms. Russell now takes her music to historic sites\, schools and festivals throughout the country.  New York appearances have included Lincoln Center and the Carnegie Hall Folk Festival and the New-York Historical Society. \nPurchase Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margot-gayle-fund-concert/
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SUMMARY:The Decorated Tenement
DESCRIPTION:Zachary J. Violette focuses on what he calls the “decorated tenement\,” a wave of new buildings constructed by immigrant builders and architects who remade the slum landscapes of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the North and West Ends of Boston in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on research and fieldwork of more than three thousand extant tenement buildings\, Violette uses ornament as an entry point to reconsider the role of tenement architects and builders (many of whom had deep roots in immigrant communities) in improving housing for the working poor. \nUtilizing specially commissioned contemporary photography\, and many never-before-published historical images\, The Decorated Tenement complicates monolithic notions of architectural taste and housing standards while broadening our understanding of the diversity of cultural and economic positions of those responsible for shaping American architecture and urban landscapes.  \n  \n  \nZachary Violette has a PhD in American and New England Studies from Boston University. His first book\, The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age(University of the Minnesota Press\, 2019)\, is the winner of the 2019 Fred Kniffen Award from the International Society of Place\, Landscape\, and Material Culture. Violette is the recipient of the 2019 short-term H. Allan Brooks Traveling Fellowship for travel in Central Europe. He serves on the Board of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and is a lecturer at Parsons/The New School of Design in New York. He is currently researching a follow-up volume to The Decorated Tenement on the inner suburban apartment house in the early twentieth century \n  \nPlease note reception will be post lecture\, 7:30 p.m. \nTickets may be purchased here \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-decorated-tenement/
LOCATION:The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen\, 20 W 44th St\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200208T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200208T160000
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SUMMARY:Young Victorians Historic Pub Crawl
DESCRIPTION:Dear Young Victorians\, \nWe’re pleased to invite you to our first ever historic pub crawl! An afternoon of merriment is guaranteed to all as we explore some of New York’s oldest institutions and drink like true Victorians. \nWhen: Saturday February 8th\, 1pm – 4pm\nWhere: Meet-up point to will be announced to those who RSVP.\nWho: Open to the public\, invite your friends!\nHow much: Free! Pay-as-you-go drinks.\nRSVP: Space is limited\, reserve your spot on Eventbrite. \nStops include Pete’s Tavern (1864)\, Old Town Bar (1892)\, McSorley’s Old Ale House (1854/1861) and Lillies (19th century antique marble bar). A brief history will be presented at each establishment\, and participants may purchase drinks in a pay-as-you go fashion. Some of the bars will offer our Young Victorian participants exclusive signature cocktails and drink specials. \nCordial-ly Yours\, \nThe Young Victorians
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/young-victorians-historic-pub-crawl/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200206T200000
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SUMMARY:Happy Birthday\, John Ruskin! Ruskin's Influence on American Architecture
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Richard Guy Wilson\nOrganized by the Victorian Society In America \nDirector\, VSA Newport Summer School\nand Commonwealth Professor of\nArchitectural History\, University of Virginia\n \nThursday\, February 6th\, 6:30pm\n\nThe Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall\nThe New School University Center\, UL 105\n63 Fifth Avenue\, New York\nRSVP by Tuesday\, February 4 to admin@vsasummerschools.org\n  \nDiscover more about the VSA Summer Programs in Newport\, London\, and Chicago before this year’s March 2nd deadline!\nIf you are already one of our alumni\, we encourage you to bring a friend or colleague who might be interested in the Summer Programs.\n  \nLearn more about the VSA Summer Programs. \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/happy-birthday-john-ruskin-ruskins-influence-on-american-architecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T183000
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SUMMARY:A History of The Victorian Dolls' House: Living Large in a Small Home
DESCRIPTION:This lecture on the history of antique dolls’ houses and miniatures will follow the fascination of the small as a part of Victorian life from a candy container miniature or a fairing\, to a small box of miniature toys a child might have to a large grand dolls’ house. We will see a doll pantry\, doll kitchens\, dolls’ houses large and small and different scales. We will explore the contents of each room of the Victorian dolls’ house both upstairs and downstairs and the inhabitants\, including their pets covering the early Victorian period and end just touching briefly on the beginning of the Edwardian era with mention of World War I. \nEliza de Sola Mendes is an Independent Decorative Arts Scholar from NYC who has worked in museums in the US and abroad as a curator and registrar as well as in auction houses. Her specialty is antique dolls’ houses and miniatures. \nReception and doors 6:15 p.m.\nLecture 6:30 p.m. \n\nThis year we are requesting a $5 donation for members and $10 donation for non-members. The donation helps to cover our costs of each lecture as well as continues to allow us to provide lectures\, tours and awareness of the Victorian Era in New York’s metropolitan area. \nPlease RSVP here.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/a-history-of-the-victorian-dolls-house-living-large-in-a-small-home/
LOCATION:Svenska Kyrkan\, 5 East 48th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017
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SUMMARY:Holiday Open Houses North Of NYC
DESCRIPTION:Our bus tour to Newburgh will take us into 10 sites that will be decorated for the holidays. The first “open house” on our tour will be one we visited before—but in an undecorated state—the former David Crawford mansion. It is now a museum and the headquarters of the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay & the Highlands. Our bus will then take us to nine privately owned sites. In the course of the afternoon we’ll see architectural gems\, mansions and rehabilitated homes and some of Newburgh’s most important landmarks. A booklet that will be given to every tour participant will provide a history of each property to be visited. An early lunch at a Newburgh restaurant will precede the visits to the open houses. \n  \n  \n  \nThis tour is limited to 34 participants. \nFees: $155 for Victorian Society New York members\, $185 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Friday\, November 29. \nTickets can be purchased here 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/holiday-open-houses-north-of-nyc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T200000
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SUMMARY:Everybody's Doin' It: Sex\, Music and Dance in Victorian New York
DESCRIPTION:Prostitution was big business in New York up to World War I\, and where sex workers plied their trade\, there was generally dancing and music. Musicologist and author Dale Cockrell’s lecture\, based on his new book\, Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex\, Music\, and Dance in New York\, 1840-1917 (W. W. Norton)\, will explore New York’s Victorian meeting places where sex\, drink\, music and dance mingled. Spirited live music\, whether played by a single pianist or a small band\, was enjoyed nightly in hundreds of basement dives\, dance halls\, brothels and concert saloons. Crowds of multiethnic men and women danced wildly to intoxicating music—to the horror of the moralistic elite. This rollicking demimonde drove innovative new music\, including ragtime and jazz\, and the development of risqué new dance styles. Cockrell’s talk will illuminate the how\, why and where of America’s popular music and dance\, and trace a buoyant journey from downtown Five Points to midtown Tin Pan Alley and all the way to Harlem.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/everybodys-doin-it-sex-music-and-dance-in-victorian-new-york/
LOCATION:5 West 63rd Street\, 5 West 63rd Street\, New York\, New York\, 10023\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191117
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SUMMARY:Considering Connecticut
DESCRIPTION:We travel to Connecticut to visit the famed Florence Griswold Museum\, which was the center of the Old Lyme Art Colony\, the main center of development of American Impressionism. Henry Ward Ranger\, Childe Hassam\, and Willard Metcalf all spent considerable time at the Griswold house and literally left their mark on its doors with their paintings. The two-hour curator-led tour of the complex will provide us with insights into this exciting time in American art history. We then head to Old Saybrook\, where tour participants will feast on a three-course meal at the waterside Saybrook Inn. The expedition concludes at an early 19th century house nearby with a short talk about what life was like in the Victorian era in this town first settled in the 1600s. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis tour is limited to 40 participants\nFEES: $160 for Victorian Society New York members\, $185 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Monday\, November 11. \nTo purchase a reservation online click here \nTo purchase a reservation via check\nmake checks payable to Metropolitan VSA\nChecks can be mailed to\nTours\, Metropolitan Chapter of Victorian Society in America\nc/o Village Alliance\n8 East 8th Street\nNew York\, NY 10003 \nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health and able to participate safely in the activities involved. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, please contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/considering-connecticut/
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SUMMARY:The Bowery: New York City's Oldest Street
DESCRIPTION:Native American footpath\, Dutch farm road and site of the city’s first Free Black homesteads\, the Bowery stretches 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square. An early social hub for the working class\, gangs\, gays and immigrant Irish\, Italians\, Chinese\, Jews and Germans\, it was “the most interesting place in New York” to author Stephen Crane. It has important links to Washington\, Lincoln\, baseball\, streetcars\, tap dance\, tattoo\, Yiddish theater\, vaudeville\, Stephen Foster\, Irving Berlin\, Harry Houdini and even Mae West. A long-time home to rescue missions\, it is also known for its affordable jewelry\, lighting and restaurant supply districts. Its artists’ community helped foster abstract expressionism\, Beat literature\, improvisational jazz and punk rock. New York City’s oldest\, most architecturally diverse street\, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Despite that honor\, it is one of the city’s most endangered historic streetscapes. \n  \nThis tour is limited to 30 participants \nFEES: $20 for Victorian Society New York members\, $30 for others \nTo purchase a ticket online please click here\nTo reserve your spot for this tour via check\nMake checks payable to Metropolitan Chapter VSA\nand mail checks to \nTours\nMetropolitan Chapter VSA\n232 East 11th Street\nNew York NY 10003 \nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health and able to participate safely in the activities involved. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, please contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-bowery-new-york-citys-oldest-street/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191028T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190924T172755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191001T013315Z
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SUMMARY:Sugar\, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York
DESCRIPTION:More than century before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today’s prominent Cuban American presence\, Cubans were settling in New York in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-century Northeast. Lisandro Pérez’s new book\, Sugar\, Cigars\, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press)\, brings this community to vivid life\, tracing how it was formed by both the sugar trade and the long struggle for independence from Spain. Professor Pérez analyzes forces that shaped the community and tells the stories of individuals and families in a little-known immigrant world representing the origins of New York City’s dynamic Latino presence. The Cuba Trade\, starting in the early 1800s\, brought most of Cuba’s burgeoning sugar production to Lower Manhattan’s docks\, to be sold to the city’s many sugar refineries. This trade was the basis for the creation of a community of Cubans dominated by sugar planters\, which led to a popular image among New Yorkers of Cubans as wealthy landowners with a hint of Old World sensibilities. Professor Pérez’s lecture for VSNY will reveal\, among other topics\, how Cubans rose to prominence among Manhattan’s 19th-century elite \n  \n  \n  \nReception and doors 6:15 p.m.\nLecture 6:30 p.m.\nThis year we are requesting a $5 donation for members and $10 donation for non-members\nThe donation helps to cover our costs of each lecture as well as continues to allow us to provide lectures\, tours and awareness of the Victorian Era in New York’s metropolitan area. \nPlease RSVP here  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/sugar-cigars-and-revolution-the-making-of-cuban-new-york/
LOCATION:5 West 63rd Street\, 5 West 63rd Street\, New York\, New York\, 10023\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191012
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191013
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190924T162848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191001T013900Z
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SUMMARY:Plants and Paintings in Philadelphia
DESCRIPTION:Valley of Santa Ysabel by Frederic Edwin Church \nThis tour will focus on accomplishments that preceded the Victorian era. In the morning we will explore Bartram’s Garden\, the oldest surviving botanic garden in this country. It was begun in 1728 by John Bartram\, a self-taught botanist who collected seeds and plants on travels that took him north to New England\, south to Florida and west to Lake Ontario. Back in Philadelphia\, he nurtured them in the garden surrounding his house that borders on the Schuylkill River. In the afternoon we will see the exhibit “From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic” at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. On display will be paintings by such Philadelphia artists as Charles Willson Peale\, James Peale and William Russell Birch of the Schuylkill\, Delaware and Wissahichon waterways. Works by several Hudson River painters are also included in the exhibit\, among them Frederic Edwin Church and Thomas Cole\, who trained as an artist in Philadelphia in the 1820s. Lunch will be on our own at the Reading Terminal Market. \nNo refunds will be made for cancellations. \nTo pay online please click here\nTo pay via check please make checks payable to Metropolitan Chapter VSA and mail to \nTours\nMetropolitan Chapter VSA\n232 11th Street\nNY NY 10003 \nThis tour is limited to 40 participants\nFEES: $135 for Victorian Society New York members\, $165 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Wednesday\, October 9. \nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health and able to participate safely in the activities involved. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, please contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/plants-and-paintings-in-philadelphia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190111T235942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T132428Z
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SUMMARY:Hudson Valley House Delights Tour
DESCRIPTION:Departing by train from Grand Central Station\, we will visit two prominent Victorian homes on the Hudson\, Washington Irving’s Sunnyside and the Gould family’s Lyndhurst. is tour is walking intensive; we will walk from the Irvington station to Sunnyside and then Lyndhurst via the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. Walking shoes/sneakers required. Lunch can be brought from home\, or purchased at Zarrilli’s Deli in Irvington. \n$75 FOR VSNY MEMBERS \n$90 FOR NONMEMBERS \n \n  \n \n\n\n\nHudson Valley House Delights\n\n\nMember Pricing $75.00 USDNon-Member Pricing $90.00 USD
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/hudson-valley-house-delights-tour/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190520T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190317T225221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190502T210052Z
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SUMMARY:Queen Victoria's Birthday Celebration and Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:The 52nd Annual Meeting this year will celebrate Queen Victoria’s 200th Birthday with a lively celebration\, while presenting our annual Victorian Society New York awards.  Please join us by RSVP via email @ membership@vicsocny.org. The event is free to members\, guests are welcome to attend for $40.  This admission price includes a one-year Victorian Society membership.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/queen-victorias-birthday-celebration-and-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:Papillon Bar and Bistro\, 22 East 54th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10022
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190511T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190511T090000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190111T235426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T134424Z
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SUMMARY:Preservation in the Hudson Highlands Tour
DESCRIPTION:The first stop on this bus tour will be Cold Spring\, where an iron foundry operated from 1811-1911 supplying artillery to the West Point Military Academy across the Hudson River. A talk about the town’s history will be followed by free time to explore its historic district before lunch at the Hudson House\, an inn built in 1832. Afterwards\, the bus will take us to Garrison to visit Boscobel. This 1804-08 house was demolished at its previous location  and then reassembled on this site in the 1950s. After visiting the house and its gardens\, we move on to works by Richard Upjohn\, first visiting  St. Philip’s Church in the Highlands\, which he designed. It opened in 1865\, and Upjohn was a parishioner there for the rest of his life. We will see the exterior of the house in which he lived from1852 until his death in 1878. The central part of the house was built in 1735; Upjohn added extensions and enlarged the dormers. \n  \nOur final stop will be at a private house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1888 by railroad magnate Samuel Sloan as a wedding gift for a daughter\, it remained in her family until 1956. The current owners bought the property in 2005 and brought in a collection of 19th century English transferware that includes historical and romantic patterns. Scenes and events relating to the Hudson Valley and New York are prominent in the historical patterns\, while scenes from voyages of discovery dominate the romantic. Prints relating to the voyages of discovery are also on display. Argand and other Victorian era light fixtures\, wired for electricity\, are installed throughout the house. \n  \nThis bus tour is limited to 40 participants.\nFees: $135 for Victorian Society New York members\, $160 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Tuesday\, April 30. \n  \n\n \n\n\n\nHudson Highlands\n\n\nMember Pricing $135.00 USDNon-Member Pricing $160.00 USD\n\n\nLunch Option\n\n\nAtlantic SalmonNew York Strip SteakRigatoni Siciliana
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/preservation-in-the-hudson-highlands-tour/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190502T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190111T234117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190409T134652Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be held at Sotheby’s Institute\, 570 Lexington Avenue (51st Street). \nOn May 2\, at the Victorian Society New York’s annual Emerging Scholars event\, young historians will shed light on little-appreciated aspects of 19th-century culture. During the free lectures (6 to 8 pm with reception\, Sotheby’s Institute of Art\, 570 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street)\, Christine Garnier will explore symbolism hidden in a mining tycoon’s Tiffany silver dinnerware; Ayaka Sano will examine surprising connections between men’s detachable shirt collars and anti-Chinese bigotry; and Elizabeth Muir will reveal her finds about New York brothel furniture. \n  \nRSVP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT  \nYou may RSVP here! 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-scholars/
LOCATION:Sotheby’s Institute\, 570 Lexington Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190111T232451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T001436Z
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SUMMARY:Born Too Soon\, Born Too Late: Mabel Loomis Todd\, Millicent Todd Bingham and Their Upside-Down Victorian Sensibilities
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is co-sponsored with and will be held at The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen.  \n20 WEST 44TH STREET\, BETWEEN 5TH AND 6TH AVENUES \nRECEPTION AT 6:00 \nLECTURE AT 6:30 \nJulie Dobrow\, a Tutts University professor\, will speak about the mixed-up Victorian sensibilities and fascinating lives of Mabel Loomis Todd\, Emily Dickinson’s first editor\, and her daughter Millicent Todd Bingham. Todd lived the majority of her life in the 19th century but confided to her diary her belief that she had been born one or two centuries too soon. Her love affair with Dickinson’s brother Austin scandalized their prim community in Amherst\, Massachusetts. Bingham’s professional life began in geography but shifted to Dickinson scholarship\, and her life encompassed more of the 20th century than the 19th\, yet she considered herself more Victorian than her mother. Todd\, who spent most of her adult life in Amherst\, and Bingham\, who lived for years in Manhattan\, both pushed the envelope of expectations for women of their eras. e two women were artistically gifted\, and they traveled the world\, wrote prolifically and advocated for land preservation. Their complicated mother-daughter relationship is well-documented in their enormous\, intertwined paper trails. Dobrow’s book\, After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet\, was published by W.W. Norton in October 2018. \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/born-too-soon-born-too-late-mabel-loomis-todd-millicent-todd-bingham-and-their-upside-down-victorian-sensibilities/
LOCATION:The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen\, 20 W 44th St\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190323T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190323T150000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190218T171012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190218T171012Z
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SUMMARY:Queen Victoria's High Tea
DESCRIPTION:Anticipate the celebration of Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday with High Tea in a private room at the Oscar Wilde Bar\, a renowned establishment that has been dubbed “the most elaborately decorated pub in New York City.”  Our High Tea begins with a glass of sherry or port. This will be followed by three courses: 1) scones with clotted cream\, 2) a selection of four tea sandwiches\, 3) four choices of petit-fours\, tartlets\, cookies. And pots of tea (four selections). A brief lecture on the British origins of high tea will be given by John Metcalfe\, a native of London and a former VSNY Board member. \n  \n  \nSpace is limited so only 30 participants can be accommodated.\nFEES: $55 for Victorian Society New York Members\, $65 for others \nPaid reservations must be received by Friday\, March 15\nMeeting place will be provided with reservation confirmation. \nNo refunds will be made for cancellations. \n\n \n\n\n\nHigh Tea\n\n\nMember Pricing $55.00 USDNon-member Pricing $65.00 USD
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/queen-victorias-high-tea/
LOCATION:Oscar Wilde Bar\, 45 W 27th\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190311T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190311T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190121T210322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190121T220946Z
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fund Benefit
DESCRIPTION:To benefit the Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage\, the Victorian art of wrapping rooms in spectacular panoramas will be the topic of scholar Nicole M. Mullen’s talk\, “French Scenic Wallpaper.” Mullen\, the curator of SFO Museum at the San Francisco International Airport\, is working on a double-feature SFO exhibition of Zuber’s French panoramic wallpaper and late 19th-century Victorian wallpaper featuring the contemporary maker Bradbury & Bradbury\, which opens July 2019. Her talk will explore how 19th-century armchair voyagers found captivating substitutes for foreign travel in the form of panoramic spectacles. French manufacturers painted and printed vivid views of ancient Roman ruins\, Mount Vesuvius’s eruptions and Brazilian jungles teeming with colorful birds and toothy crocodiles. The scenes were teaching tools as well\, with lessons on geography\, history\, mythology\, literature and life in foreign lands. The Margot Gayle Fund provides grants for preservation or conservation of Victorian era material culture. Each year 5% of the fund’s principal is available for grants \nReception to follow \n\n \n\n\n\nMargot Gayle Fund Benefit\n\n\nTicket $50.00 USDTicket +Add’l Donation $100.00 USD
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margot-gayle-fund-benefit/
LOCATION:Grolier Club\, 49 East 60th Street\, New York\, New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190307T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190111T224717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T002146Z
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SUMMARY:The Making of a Modern Museum: The Hewitt Sisters
DESCRIPTION:When New Yorkers utter the phrase “Cooper Hewitt\,” it typically brings to mind the Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum\, housed in Andrew Carnegie’s mansion on 91st Street and Fifth Avenue. Far less renowned are the institution’s 19th-century women patrons\, who made their family names synonymous with achievements in art and design. Sue Shutte\, the historian at Ringwood Manor in Ringwood\, New Jersey (the Hewitt family’s longtime country home)\, will bring deserved attention back to three sisters\, Amy\, Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt. They were world travelers with deep interests in collecting\, music and equestrianism. Their story is particularly relevant now\, as ever more scholarship is devoted to the history of influential women. Come meet the Hewitt sisters and their famous family and discover how these three young progressive women used their passion to establish America’s premier museum devoted to design.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-making-of-a-modern-museum-the-hewitt-sisters/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190223T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190223T150000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190111T235047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190121T205446Z
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SUMMARY:A Victorian Dog’s Life - American Kennel Club Museum Tour
DESCRIPTION:The American Kennel Club has a new museum devoted to dogs. On our museum tour\, we will learn how 19th-century artists immortalized humans’ best friends with portraiture and sculpture as well as what a dog’s life was like in Victorian times— how animals were bred\, trained\, housed and shown. We will also see how owners’ expectations have evolved. \n$25 FOR VSNY MEMBERS \n$35 FOR NONMEMBERS \n  \n  \n  \n\n \n\n\n\nVictorian Dog’s Life\n\n\nMember $25.00 USDNon-member $35.00 USD
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/a-victorian-dogs-life-american-kennel-club-museum-tour/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190125T230935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190125T231216Z
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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde's Valentine for America & Summer School Presentations
DESCRIPTION:The Victorian Society in America Presents \nA Summer Schools Evening* \n“Oscar Wilde’s Valentine for America: 1882 Lecture Tour”\nA lecture by Richard Guy Wilson\nDirector\, VSA Newport Summer School and Commonwealth Professor of\nArchitectural History\, University of Virginia\nFREE\nFriday\, February 15th\, 6:00 PM\nThe Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall\nThe New School\nUniversity Center\, UL105\n63 Fifth Avenue\nNew York \n*Learn about the VSA Summer Schools in\nNewport\, London and Chicago before this\nyear’s March 1st application deadline! \nRSVP by Wednesday\, February 13th\nto admin@vsasummerschools.org \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/oscar-wildes-valentine-for-america-summer-school-presentations/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190215
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20181214T184202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T225022Z
UID:10000022-1550102400-1550188799@vicsocny.org
SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fund Application Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Margot Gayle with the Jefferson Market Courthouse. \nMargot Gayle Fund for Preservation of Victorian Heritage \nApplications are due February 14\, 2019. \nFind out more and apply for a 2019 Margot Gayle Fund grant.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margot-gayle-fund-application-deadline/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T193000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20190111T223810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T001810Z
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SUMMARY:How Victorian Valentines Made Hearts Soar
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Rosin\, president of the National Valentine Collectors Association\, has made a “passionate obsession” for more than 40 years out of historical love and friendship cards\, keepsakes and related ephemera. Her lecture will reveal the visual and structural wonders of Victorian Valentines. Surfaces were richly textured with gilded lace and high-relief embossing\, and cards were engineered to turn into three-dimensional forms including battlefield tents and steam engines. Rosin will discuss the cards’ hidden codes of floral motifs\, which represented various virtues and emotions\, and the evolution of flattering and comic depictions of lovers\, whether athletes\, crooked politicians or caged mice. Rosin has made major discoveries about the makers; women and immigrants played groundbreaking roles in designing and marketing Valentines. She describes the cards and mementoes\, whether handmade or mass-produced\, as demonstrating “the creativity and passion of human emotion.” Rosin is also the president-emerita of the Ephemera Society of America. In 2018\, her family’s collection of about 12\,300 Valentines and related items was donated to e Huntington Library\, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino\, California\, to be accessible for research and display.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/how-victorian-valentines-made-hearts-soar/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181209
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20181011T134556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181011T141229Z
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SUMMARY:Holiday Treats and Treasures on the Hudson
DESCRIPTION:Image courtesy of NPS \nSaturday\, December 8\, Departure at 8 a.m. \nWe visit Rhinebeck\, one of the most historic and quaint towns up the Hudson River two hours from Manhattan. It began as a Dutch settle-ment on land purchased from the Iroquois in 1686. The tour includes a lecture on the town’s history (a Continental Army regiment trained here) as well as a short walking tour and site visits. The grandest of these sites is nearby Wilderstein\, an 1852 Queen Anne mansion of three stories with a five-story tower. We will also visit the Church of the Messiah\, which has Tiffany stained glass windows\, and Delamater House\, an example of American Gothic by architect A. J. Davis. A private luncheon will be served at the Beekman Arms\, alleged to be the oldest functioning inn in America (1766). All building sites and town shops will be charmingly decorated for the holidays. \n  \n  \n  \nThis bus tour is limited to 30 participants.\nFees: $165 for Victorian Society New York members\, $190 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Friday\, November 30. \n\n \n\n\n\nHolidays on the Hudson\n\n\nMember $165.00 USDNon-Member $190.00 USD\n\n\nLunch Options\n\n\nYankee Pot RoastBreast of ChickenPasta Primavera
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/holiday-treats-and-treasures-on-the-hudson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181206T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T115732
CREATED:20180910T005929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181127T230809Z
UID:10000041-1544121900-1544126400@vicsocny.org
SUMMARY:Devil’s Mile: The Rich\, Gritty History of the Bowery
DESCRIPTION:Victorian times were all about the suppression of anything salacious\, as Alice Sparberg Alexiou\, author of the new book\, Devil’s Mile: The Rich\, Gritty History of the Bowery\, will explain. The era’s prudery just increased the urge to experience sex and weirdness—all commodities then were readily available on the Bowery. This is where the action was\, in the form of freak shows\, minstrel shows\, gay bars (“fairy resorts”)\, concert saloons with back rooms devoted to fight contests and the waitresses doubling as prostitutes\, anatomical museums that featured human fetuses and diseased human body parts pickled in formaldehyde\, and scams offering cures for syphilis (which was then untreatable). The Bowery was at its most spirited on Saturday nights\, where uptown swells headed for a night of slumming. But watch out\, because you might get your drink drugged (a “mickey finn”)\, your pocket picked. Or even murdered. \nAttendees are invited to pre-lecture receptions at 6pm. Talks begin at 6:45 pm. \nRSVP for the November 6th Lecture
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/devils-mile-the-rich-gritty-history-of-the-bowery/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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