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Events
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Margot Gayle Fund Concert
The Victorian Society New York invites you to a concert to benefit the Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage. Monday March 9th at 6:30 - 8:30 pm […]
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How the Emerald Oasis Came to Be
5 East 48th Street 5 East 48th Street, New York, NYThe 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 […]
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Croquet’s Cheating Women
5 East 48th Street 5 East 48th Street, New York, NYUpdate: 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 […]
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Virtual Lecture – Dreicer & Co: Forgotten Jewelers of the Gilded Age
Virtual Lecture - Dreicer & Co: Forgotten Jewelers of the Gilded Age Post-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here. Please join us for an online lecture […]
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Emerging Scholars Lecture
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 […]
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Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboy – With Prof. Vincent DiGirolamo
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 6:00 PM - 7 PM EDT on Zoom Post-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here. ABOUT THIS EVENT Join Baruch College history […]
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Elevating the Potter’s Art: James Carr & His New York City Pottery
Display of James Carr, a Father of the American Ceramics Industry, at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Monday, October 12, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom Post-Event […]
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Victorian Era through Contemporary Artists’ Lenses
A Conversation with Stephen Berkman and Stacy Renee Morrison about Photography, Shimmel Zohar, and Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom […]
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Faces of Civil War Nurses – With Ronald S. Coddington
Women's stories of the Civil War told through letters, diaries, pension files, and newspaper and government reports. Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom Post-Event […]
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Slavery and Resistance in New York
Two New Books Shed Light on 19th-Century Complicity and Activism Monday, November 16, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom Post-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture […]
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Restless Enterprise: The Art & Life of Eliza Greatorex – With Dr. Katherine Manthorne
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom Post-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here. ABOUT THIS EVENT Once called "the first artist […]
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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Transformations in Department Store Design, 1880–1920 Thursday, December 17, 2020 6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom Post-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here. About […]
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The King of Macabre: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Tuesday January 19, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST About this Event Edgar Allan Poe has a firm place in history as the father of American horror, authoring […]
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Cottier & Co. on Fifth Avenue, NY: A One-Stop Shop for the House Beautiful
Daniel Cottier: Designer, Decorator, Dealer About this Event Trained as a stained glass artist, the Glasgow native Daniel Cottier (1838-1891), by age thirty-five, had created a worldwide network of […]
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Mary Church Terrell’s Family History and the Making of an Activist
Monday, February 22, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST About this Event Highlighting new findings from her biography, Unceasing Militant, Alison Parker will share how Mary Church Terrell’s family […]
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Emerging Scholars Lectures – Submission Deadline
Submission Deadline: March 10th, 2021 Emerging Scholars Lecture Event: May 10th, 2021 The Victorian Society New York invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by March […]
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“Man With Glass Eye Seeks Woman With Glass Eye”: New York’s personal ads
About this Event Historian Francesca Beauman, author of Matrimony, Inc.: from personal ads to swiping right, a story of America looking for love (2020), explores the history of personal ads in New […]
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THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women
Wed, March 17, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT About this Event DOCTORS BLACKWELL looks closely at the sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, English immigrants who, in quick succession, […]
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Pamela Colman Smith’s New York
Tue, March 30, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT About this Event Pamela Colman Smith’s illustrations for the Rider Waite tarot deck are known to millions worldwide, but her […]
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Loïe Fuller: Obsessed with Light, A Conversation with the Filmmakers
Wed, April 7, 2021 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT About this Event Before there was Isadora Duncan, there was Loïe Fuller (American, 1862-1928), the American creator of modern dance. […]