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SUMMARY:Here Today\, Gone Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Transformations in Department Store Design\, 1880–1920\n\n\n  \nThursday\, December 17\, 2020 \n6:00 PM – 7 PM EST on Zoom \nPost-Event Update: A video recording of this lecture can be found here.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nThis talk will time-travel to the department stores’ golden era when display professionals transformed the shopping experience through design innovation. At the turn of the twentieth century\, architects\, window dressers\, shopfitters\, and interior designers aimed to keep up with ever new display styles\, strategies\, and technologies. Ongoing building construction and the continual reinvention of window and interior arrangements created a compelling impression of speed and change for the public. Design distinguished stores from their competition and made the retail experience different from one visit to the next. This illustrated review will show how variable display design was central to both the artistic and economic pursuits of leading department stores in Chicago\, London\, and New York. \nEmily M. Orr is the Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design at Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum. She is the author of Designing the Department Store: Display and Retail at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury\, 2019) and co-editor of the newly released monograph E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising (Rizzoli Electa/Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum\, 2020). \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/here-today-gone-tomorrow/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210119T180000
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SUMMARY:The King of Macabre: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday January 19\, 2021 \n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST \n  \nAbout this Event\nEdgar Allan Poe has a firm place in history as the father of American horror\, authoring the poems and short stories we are well versed with today like ‘The Raven’ and the ‘Cask of Amontillado’. What many may not know is the drama that surrounded his life; from being orphaned at a young age to moving from city to city trying to firmly place himself in the literary scene to personal loss to his own mysterious death. On his 212th birthday\, historian and former Education Coordinator of the Bronx County Historical Society Vivian Davis will explore Poe’s life in New York\, where the inspiration for his most famous works took place.\n  \n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-king-of-macabre-the-life-of-edgar-allan-poe/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T180000
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SUMMARY:Cottier & Co. on Fifth Avenue\, NY: A One-Stop Shop for the House Beautiful
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Cottier: Designer\, Decorator\, Dealer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nAbout this Event\n\n\nTrained as a stained glass artist\, the Glasgow native Daniel Cottier (1838-1891)\, by age thirty-five\, had created a worldwide network of large shops where one could buy everything for the elegant home–. from furniture to fabrics; from chandeliers to fine china\, and from paintings to stained glass panels. This talk will focus on Cottier & Co. in New York\, its clientele\, and the unique place it occupied among other interior decorating firms because of its inclusion of an art gallery\, which promoted contemporary European art. Cottier’s close friendships with contemporary American artists\, such as Albert Pinkham Ryder\, J. Alden Weir\, and the sculptor Olin Levy Warner\, whose careers he supported without\, however\, selling their art\, will also be discussed. \nPetra ten-Doesschate Chu is professor emeritus of art history and museum studies at Seton Hall University (South Orange\, NJ). A specialist in nineteenth-century art history\, she has published or co-published some fifteen books\, edited volumes\, and exhibition catalogues\, in addition to numerous articles and book chapters. Her textbook\, Nineteenth-Century European Art\, is used across the world. She is the founding co-editor of the open-access journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (http://19thc-artworldwide.org). Most recently\, together with Max Donnelly\, Andrew Montana\, and Suzanne Veldink\, she has authored a book on Daniel Cottier entitled Daniel Cottier: Designer\, Decorator\, Dealer\, which will be published in May/June by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and distributed by Yale University Press. \n  \n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/cottier-co-on-fifth-avenue-ny-a-one-stop-shop-for-the-house-beautiful/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T200000
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SUMMARY:Mary Church Terrell’s Family History and the Making of an Activist
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, February 22\, 2021 \n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST \nAbout this Event\n\n\nHighlighting new findings from her biography\, Unceasing Militant\, Alison Parker will share how Mary Church Terrell’s family history of enslavement and of opportunities and dangers during Reconstruction helped shape her activism. The Oberlin College graduate became an educator and served as the first Black woman on the Washington\, D.D. board of education. As a leader in the National Association of Colored Women\, the Constitution League\, and then the NAACP\, Terrell became a public lecturer. Pointing to the violence of white enslavers who had raped enslaved women\, including both of her grandmothers\, as well as to the violence of lynching that even ended the life of one of her childhood friends\, Terrell spoke frequently in New York City\, calling for Black men’s and women’s voting rights\, as well as for federal anti-lynching legislation and an end to segregation. \nAlison M. Parker is the Chair & Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. \n  \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/mary-church-terrells-family-history-and-the-making-of-an-activist/
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SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars Lectures - Submission Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Submission Deadline: March 10th\, 2021     \nEmerging Scholars Lecture Event: May 10th\, 2021 \nThe Victorian Society New York invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by March 10 for its annual “Emerging Scholars” event\, to be held by Zoom on May 10\, 2021. The Victorian Society New York\, founded in 1966\, supports scholarship about every aspect of 19th-century and early-20th-century culture\, including architecture\, literature\, theater\, fine and decorative art\, immigration\, economics\, politics\, education\, gender roles\, reform movements\, fashion\, and food. Topics for recent event winners have included 19th-century tableaux vivants\, cookbook recipes revealing artistic gluttony\, and women’s alleged hatpin savagery. \nFor the live event on May 10th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm\, VSNY will bring in three current students or recent grads to each give a 20-minute Zoom presentation and then field questions. Send 200-word proposals (preference given to American/New York topics) and CVs by March 10 to info@vicsocny.org. \nSpeakers will receive a free VSNY year membership ($30 value)\, and their talks will be recorded and made publicly available on VSNY’s website.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-scholars-lectures-submission-deadline/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T133000
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SUMMARY:“Man With Glass Eye Seeks Woman With Glass Eye”: New York’s personal ads
DESCRIPTION:About this Event\n\n\nHistorian 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 York. \nOne Thursday morning in 1861\, a woman named Ethel placed an ad for a husband in the New York Herald. She explained that she was “compelled to adopt this mode of opening a correspondence owing to the strict surveillance under which she is placed at home.” The successful candidate needed to be under twenty-five and “possess a fine intellectual countenance\, be of an agreeable disposition\, and above all have a love of a mustache.” Clearly\, if you’ve ever used a dating app or website\, then you have more in common than you know with nineteenth century New Yorkers. \nWhilst researching her latest book\, Beauman has uncovered hundreds of never-before-seen personal ads\, which together offer startlingly fresh insight into American life as the population grew and the cities expanded. In this talk\, she will share some of her favorites from the past 250 years or so\, along the way helping to answer the age-old question: what do men and women look for in each other? And how has this changed (or not!) over the past 250 years? \n  \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/man-with-glass-eye-seeks-woman-with-glass-eye-new-yorks-personal-ads/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T200000
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SUMMARY:THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, March 17\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nDOCTORS BLACKWELL looks closely at the sisters Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell\, English immigrants who\, in quick succession\, became the first and third women\, respectively\, in the U.S. to earn medical degrees—and who\, in 1857\, founded the very first hospital staffed by women\, the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children. \nTenacious visionaries\, Elizabeth and Emily obtained their medical degrees despite the numerous and considerable challenges before them. Elizabeth’s entry into this previously all-male profession was called “a farce\,” “the nefarious process of amalgamation\,” and was met with bursts of laughter and derision. The dean of one school summed up a popular fear among male practitioners\, who were worried that female patients would only want to see female doctors: “You cannot expect us to furnish you with a stick to break our heads with.” Attempts by both sisters to get into medical colleges were either denied or met with toothless acceptance—the faculty at Geneva Medical College left the ultimate decision of whether to accept Elizabeth up to the students\, who only agreed as a sort of fraternity prank. \nThe Blackwells’ ambitions extended far beyond themselves. Whereas Elizabeth strove to stand alongside her male allies as an exceptional woman who had proved herself their equal\, Emily yearned to strip her gender and make her way in anonymity. Nimura writes of Elizabeth\, “caring for suffering individuals had never been the engine that drove her. In becoming a doctor\, she meant to heal humanity.” And as Emily once reminded Elizabeth\, the point was “to be not the first female M.D.s\, but the first of legions.” \nNow all but forgotten or watered down in children’s books\, the sisters (especially Elizabeth\, deemed the “lioness”) made national and international news when they earned their degrees and began practicing\, and were consistently trailed by whispers and curious looks. They were written up in the New York Times; mocked in Punch\, the London satirical paper; and they and their work were profiled in leading medical and women’s journals. What’s more\, their lives intersected with some of the most notable figures of their era. Florence Nightingale\, Lucy Stone\, Horace Greeley\, Henry Ward Beecher\, Lady Byron\, Henry Whitney Bellows\, and Dorothea Dix made important introductions for them and/or supported their endeavors publicly. Elizabeth even won a private meeting with President Abraham Lincoln. \nTHE DOCTORS BLACKWELL illuminates these two remarkable women—in all their complicated\, contradictory brilliance—whose profound influence changed the medical profession forever. \nJanice P. Nimura—an independent historian whose last book\, Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back\, was a New York Times’s Notable book of 2015—is the winner of a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award. \nReserve Your Tickets Here\n\n\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-doctors-blackwell-how-two-pioneering-sisters-brought-medicine-to-women/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T200000
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SUMMARY:Pamela Colman Smith’s New York
DESCRIPTION:Tue\, March 30\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nPamela Colman Smith’s illustrations for the Rider Waite tarot deck are known to millions worldwide\, but her many other contributions as an artist\, folklorist\, editor\, and suffragist have received relatively little attention until recently. She was active from the 1890s through the 1920s\, during the critical transition from the Victorian to Modernist eras. Drawing on new findings from her literary biography\, Pamela Colman Smith: Artist\, Feminist & Mystic\, Elizabeth Foley O’Connor will share new details about Colman Smith’s life and work\, especially her time in New York. Although she spent most of her life in England\, Colman Smith was descended from two well-connected Brooklyn families. She attended the Pratt Instituted and launched her career as an artist and illustrator in Manhattan and was the first non-photographic artist that Alfred Stieglitz exhibited at his 291 galleries on Fifth Avenue. Colman Smith was well-known in the City’s artistic community and often gave several performances of Jamaican Anansi tales at venues around the City\, including a memorable performance for Mark Twain. \nElizabeth Foley O’Connor is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender Studies program at Washington College. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/pamela-colman-smiths-new-york/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T180000
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SUMMARY:Loïe Fuller: Obsessed with Light\, A Conversation with the Filmmakers
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, April 7\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nBefore there was Isadora Duncan\, there was Loïe Fuller (American\, 1862-1928)\, the American creator of modern dance. A ground-breaking inventor\, she created a completely new spectacle that combined dance\, light\, fabric and movement\, premiering it at the Folies Bergère in Paris in 1892. Fuller also pioneered the use of electricity and performed in her own theater at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. She revolutionized the visual culture of the early 20 th century and became one of the most famous entertainers in the world. The light shows of recent concerts are indebted to Fuller’s visionary theatrics. \nObsessed with Light is the first documentary feature about Loïe Fuller. The film pulls back the curtain on this forgotten modernist\, exploring her impact on our current cultural landscape. It is a film about transformation – about a Midwestern vaudeville performer\, born during the Civil War\, who became the world-famous star of Belle Époque Paris with elaborate productions that created ephemeral\, shape-shifting abstractions. It is a story about an ugly duckling who turned herself into the “Fairy of Light” onstage. Ultimately\, Obsessed with Light reveals the stunning metamorphosis of Fuller’s work\, as seen on fashion runways\, rock concerts\, art installations and dance performances. \nThere will be a presentation and clips from the forthcoming documentary led by the filmmakers\, followed by a moderated conversation. \nThe Margot Gayle Fund enables the Metropolitan Chapter to make monetary grants for projects for preservation or conservation of Victorian material culture in the New York Metropolitan area. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/loie-fuller-obsessed-with-light-a-conversation-with-the-filmmakers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210505T200000
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SUMMARY:The Waldorf-Astoria and the Life of the City
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, May 5\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT\nAbout this Event\n\n\nWhen the original Hotel Waldorf opened on Fifth Avenue in 1893\, its managers sought to create a “haven for the well-to-do\,” an elite citadel that would guard the privacy (and secrets) of a select assemblage of Astors\, Vanderbilts and Whitneys. But after the Waldorf doubled in size with the addition of the Astoria in 1897\, it had to open its doors to a wider spectrum. In this lecture based on his forthcoming book\, American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and Making of a Century\, David Freeland will discuss how the hotel that cultivated (it was once said) “exclusiveness among the masses” became a turn-of-century meeting place for all kinds of people. Along the way\, he’ll share a range of photos and documents to highlight the Waldorf’s contributions in architecture\, music\, and cuisine. \nDavid Freeland is the author of the books Automats\, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure\, for which he won the 2009 Award for Popular Culture and Entertainment for 2009 from the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America\, and Ladies of Soul. As a historian and journalist\, he has written for the Wall Street Journal\, am New York\, Time Out New York\, New York History\, American Songwriter\, and other publications. He appeared in episodes of NBC TV’s “Who Do You Think You Are” and NYC Media’s “Secrets of New York.” Freeland lives in New York\, where he leads walking tours and gives lectures on the city’s culture and history. \nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-waldorf-astoria-and-the-life-of-the-city/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210510T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210510T193000
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SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Alice Austen\, The Age of Innocence\, and Ice Skating and Fashion\n  \nAbout this Event\n  \n\n\nWinners of the Victorian Society New York’s annual Emerging Scholars contest will speak on a fascinating array of topics. Margaret Simons\, a collections and development specialist at the Alice Austen House on Staten Island\, earning her master’s degree in design history and curatorial studies in the Parsons School of Design/Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum program\, will explore the life and career of enigmatic photographer Alice Austen (1866-1952). Alexis Fair\, a university administrator earning her master’s degree in design history and curatorial studies at Parsons\, will discuss how fashions in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence in the novel and film versions reveal identity\, character\, Victorian cultural ideologies\, and women’s plight asserting independence in an oppressive society. Lara Damabi\, the Tiffany & Co. Foundation curatorial intern in American decorative arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (a recent NYU master’s degree recipient in costume studies)\, will cover how late-19th-century societal changes\, such as evolving gender relations\, growing interest in sport and exercise\, and technological advancements\, were reflected through ice skating and fashion. \n  \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-scholars-lecture-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T193000
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SUMMARY:Perilous Voyages to New York's Safe Harbor
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, September 22\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\n  \n\n\n\nTwo new books shed light on 19th-century sea journeys for refuge seekers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nBefore the Civil War\, Irish and Black people escaping horrific conditions in their homelands arrived at New York’s harbors via sea passages\, which are the subject of groundbreaking new scholarship. Cian T. McMahon\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, and Dr. Timothy Walker\, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth\, will present their findings–based on years of archival excavations–about the journeyers’ grueling experiences and heroism. \n  \nDr. McMahon’s new book\, The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine (NYU Press)\, draws on letters and diaries of Irish people fleeing disease and starvation in the 1840s and ’50s. Crews\, captains and conditions on transatlantic emigrant vessels could be brutal. Yet the escapees built dynamic social networks that became essential elements of their transformation into Americans. Dr. McMahon specializes in 19th-century migration\, identity\, and maritime social history. His other writings include The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race\, Nation\, and the Popular Press\, 1840-1880 (UNC Press\, 2015). \n  \nDr. Walker has edited a new book\, Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad (UMass Press). The ten essays explore how Black people maneuvered from Southern ports to the mid-Atlantic and New England coastline. They were assisted by free Black laborers and activists and white abolitionists while facing the constant threat of betrayal by slavery’s supporters. Dr. Walker\, a scholar of maritime history\, colonial overseas expansion\, and trans-oceanic slave trading\, has held visiting professorships at Brown University and the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon. He has received grants and fellowships from institutions including the NEH\, Fulbright U.S. Student Program\, and Portuguese Camões Institute. His other professional roles include guest investigator of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and contributing faculty member of the Munson Institute of Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport. \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/perilous-voyages-to-new-yorks-safe-harbor/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210929T193000
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SUMMARY:The Pre-Raphaelites Updated
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 29\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\n\nThe reinstalled Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Collection at the Delaware Art Museum.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nIn August of 2021 the Delaware Art Museum completed a five-year reinterpretation and reinstallation plan for the collection of Pre-Raphaelite art assembled by turn of the century Quaker industrialist Samuel Bancroft. With input from extensive community discussions and including the most recent developments in British art historical scholarship the installation offers an expanded view of the work of these radical Victorians. Several new acquisitions contribute to a retelling connecting past to present and illuminating societal and cultural concerns still under discussion today. Join collection curator Margaretta Frederick to learn more about the newly opened installation. Frederick will also share plans for an exhibition of the work of husband and wife potter and novelist William de Morgan and pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn Pickering De Morgan opening in fall 2022. \nMargaretta S Frederick is the Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art at the Delaware Art Museum. Dr. Frederick received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College in 1996\, with a specialization in British19th century art. Dr. Frederick has been integral to the Museum’s Bancroft Collection for over twenty years\, focusing on women within the Pre-Raphaelite circle. She is responsible for the current reinterpretation and reinstallation of the collection\, which opened in late summer 2021. Other projects underway include an exhibition of the work of Evelyn and William De Morgan (fall 2022) with an accompanying book of essays (published by Yale University Press). She is also co-editing the collected letters of May Morris with Anna Mason. \nReserve Your Tickets Here\nPhoto credits \nJohn Everett Millais (1829-1896)\, The Waterfall\, 1853. Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial\, 1935 (1935-53). \nDante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)\, La Bella Mano\, 1874-5. Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial\,1935 (1935-25). \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-pre-raphaelites-updated/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211020T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211020T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus\, 1863–82
DESCRIPTION:This tour will take place in person on:\nWednesday\, October 20th\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 7:00 PM\n  \nLocation:\nBrooklyn Museum\n200 Eastern Parkway\nBrooklyn\, NY 11238\n  \nAbout this event\nAn in-person\, after-hours tour of the Brooklyn Museum’s acclaimed exhibition\, Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus\, 1863–82. The show’s guest curator\, Barbara Veith\, and Medill H. Harvey\, Ruth Bigelow Wriston Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and Manager of the Henry R. Luce Center\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, will explain the synergistic partnership of Manhattan-based artisans Anton Kimbel (1822–1895) and Joseph Cabus (1824–1898). Born into European furniture-making families\, these two entrepreneurial immigrants supervised up to 100 employees and collaborated on Modern Gothic wares for middle-class and elite customers. Among their design signatures are caramel and ebonized woodplanes\, incised gilding\, inset tiles\, dynamic diagonal supports and an architectural vocabulary of crenellations\, gables\, columns\, and balustrades. Harvey and Veith mined archival sources and retrieved unsigned furniture from obscurity to realize a project that had long been a passion of (and was initiated by) the Brooklyn Museum’s late curator Barry R. Harwood. Don’t miss this insider view of the season’s most exciting mixed-media design exhibition. \n  \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/modern-gothic-the-inventive-furniture-of-kimbel-and-cabus-1863-82/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 27th\, 2021\n6:00 PM – 7:00 PM\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nRevisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives is an exhibition of 65 lithographs by the legendary New York firm\, now on view at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme\, Connecticut. Site curator Amy Kurtz Lansing will offer a virtual tour of the exhibition\, organized by the Joslyn Art Museum from a collection of over 600 Currier & Ives prints donated by Conagra Brands. \nCurrier & Ives was a powerhouse of nineteenth-century publishing and had an immeasurable influence on American visual culture. Founded in New York in 1834 by Nathaniel Currier\, the company expanded to include a new partner\, James Merritt Ives\, after 1857. Currier & Ives\, through a stable of talented artists that included Frances Palmer\, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait\, and Louis Maurer\, produced millions of affordably priced copies of over seven thousand original lithographs\, living up to its self-appointed title as “the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints.” The firm took advantage of New York City’s booming arts culture in the latter half of the nineteenth century\, but its output was not seen as fine art by critics\, nor was it intended as such. Its prints were first and foremost commodities\, and the choice of subjects was often determined by popularity and sales figures. Currier & Ives perpetuated Victorian ideals in its depictions of family\, history\, politics\, and urban and suburban life—concepts that persist today partly as a result of the wide distribution of their images. Yet these prints also serve as important records of a nation in the midst of an extraordinary transformation from a rural and agricultural landscape to an industrialized and urbanized global power. \nThe sheer reach of Currier & Ives prints\, sold in their New York City store\, or by mail order\, pushcart vendors\, and far-flung agents\, put their pictures in view of countless Americans. The visually-based culture we live in today\, with images circulating on the internet and social media\, has its origins in the mass communications created by Currier & Ives. The firm closed in 1907\, but the re-discovery of its prints by collectors and the public in the 1920s enshrined them as representations of American life encountered by subsequent generations in the format of holiday cards\, calendars\, dishware\, and even whiskey labels. By taking us back to the period of the prints’ creation\, this exhibition illuminates Currier & Ives’s America as well as our own America in the present day. \nAmy Kurtz Lansing is Curator at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme\, CT. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth-century art\, she has organized or co-organized an array of exhibitions on American paintings\, sculpture\, and photography\, including Social & Solitary: Reflections on Art\, Isolation\, and Renewal; Fresh Fields: American Impressionist Landscapes; “Nothing More American:” Immigration\, Sanctuary\, Community; The Great Americans: Portraits by Jac Lahav; Art and the New England Farm; The Artist in the Connecticut Landscape; Modern Figures: Mary Knollenberg Sculptures; Harry Holtzman and American Abstraction; Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England; The Way We Work: David Macaulay’s Human Body; and Historical Fictions: Edward Lamson Henry’s Paintings of Past and Present. She has worked with contemporary artists such as Patrick Dougherty on exhibitions and site-specific commissions\, and led interpretation for the Museum’s Robert F. Schumann Artists’ Trail. She graduated from Smith College and received an M.Phil in the History of Art From Yale University. Prior to her arrival at the Florence Griswold Museum\, she worked in the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery. \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/revisiting-america-the-prints-of-currier-ives/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Metropolitan Museum of Art curators from the American\, Japanese\, and Islamic Art Departments\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nMedill Higgins Harvey\, Ruth Bigelow Wriston Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and Manager\, The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art \nMonika Bincsik\, Diane and Arthur Abbey Associate Curator for Japanese Decorative Arts \nDeniz Beyazit\, Associate Curator\, Islamic Art \nThe talk will draw on the recent publication\, Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. We will explore Moore’s pioneering collecting and the role it played in shaping his innovative work at Tiffany & Co. [The exhibition will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall of 2024.] \nEdward C. Moore led Tiffany & Co. to unparalleled originality and success during the second half of the nineteenth century. He was a visionary innovator who created silver that pushed traditional boundaries\, refusing to be fettered by the limits of existing technology\, aesthetic sensibilities\, or artistic education. Under his leadership\, Tiffany & Co. established itself as the preeminent designer and maker of silver on the world stage. Motivated by a desire to inspire creativity\, not only in himself but also in his team of designers and silversmiths\, Moore amassed a vast collection of works of art from ancient Greece and Rome\, Europe\, Asia\, and the Islamic world—holdings that ranged from glass and ceramics to textiles\, baskets\, and metalwork. The three speakers will shed light on Moore’s collections of Asian and Islamic art and the virtuosic silver these works of art inspired. \nMoore’s story speaks to the lively cross-cultural exchanges that defined nineteenth-century art and design in the United States. \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/collecting-inspiration-edward-c-moore-at-tiffany-co/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
CREATED:20211102T023739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T023859Z
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SUMMARY:“The Strange Artistic Genius of This People”: Ephemeral Art and Impermanent Architecture of Italian Immigrant Catholic Feste
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\nDuring the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, Italian working-class immigrants in the United States staged religious feste (street feasts) in honor of the Madonna and Catholic saints. The feasts’ focus were free-standing\, Baroque-style chapels\, many reaching four stories high\, temporarily erected on city sidewalks to display the image of the feted sacred personage. The festa chapels were unique creations that this immigrant Catholic minority imagined and devised as bold artistic statements of religious and ethnic claims to urban space. \nJoseph Sciorra is the Director of Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute\, Queens College\, City University of New York. He is the editor of Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives\, co-editor of Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora\, and author of Memorial Wall Art and Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City. \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-strange-artistic-genius-of-this-people-ephemeral-art-and-impermanent-architecture-of-italian-immigrant-catholic-feste/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T193000
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SUMMARY:Building The Brooklyn Bridge 1869 to 1883
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, January 20th\, 2022\n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM\n  \nAbout this event\n\n\nAuthor Jeffrey I. Richman will tell the captivating story of how a bridge of unprecedented size and technology was built over the East River\, connecting\, for the first time\, the then independent cities of Brooklyn and New York. This awe-inspiring structure—built during an age of technological innovation— was not only a modern engineering feat of extraordinary imagination\, fortitude\, and skill\, it also was a towering beacon of human triumph. \nIn his lecture\, based on his recently published book\, Building The Brooklyn Bridge 1869 to 1883: An Illustrated History with Images in 3D\, Mr. Richman will share some of the 253 superb 19th-century images\, many never before published on the printed page (published by Bauer and Dean Publishers). \nA born storyteller\, Mr. Richman relates how a small group of dedicated engineers and thousands of workers toiled for more than a decade to construct what was then the largest suspension bridge ever built\, section by section\, from the massive anchorages and elegant towers to the cables and bridge railway (operational four months after the bridge’s official opening). He reminds us how profoundly modern and groundbreaking the bridge was\, in its use of new materials (steel)\, new technologies (electricity)\, and pioneering construction methods. He will discuss why this iconic bridge—proclaimed the “eighth wonder of the world” soon after its completion and a National Historic Landmark in 1964—continues to hold such a special place in the hearts of so many. \nKurt Andersen\, best-selling author and former host of the Peabody Award winning “Studio 360\,” has written: “If you love Brooklyn or bridges or New York City or cities or 19th century marvels –– or all of the above\, as I do ––Building Brooklyn Bridge is a perfect feast\, a would-be time-traveler’s delight\, overflowing with rare and evocative and fascinating images. It’s a terrific book!” \nEarly sign-ups will receive a set of 3-D glasses for the talk! \nBio: Jeffrey I. Richman has been fascinated by New York City’s history for as long as he can remember. In 2007\, after thirty-three years practicing law\, representing indigent criminal defendants\, he became the full-time historian at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery Since then\, he has led Green-Wood’s Civil War\, World War I\, and World War II projects which\, with the help of hundreds of volunteers\, have researched\, written\, and posted online biographies of thousands of veterans interred there. He is the author of three books\, including Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery: New York’s Buried Treasure (1998). He has also curated many exhibitions\, including three on the Civil War and one on Coney Island. Driven by his passion for history in general and nineteenth-century New York in particular\, Richman is an avid collector who has amassed an outstanding collection of stereoview and lantern slide photographs of early New York—including many of the Brooklyn Bridge under construction—that he has donated to The Green-Wood Historic Fund. One of his fondest memories is of attending the one-hundredth anniversary of the bridge’s opening in 1983—just one milestone in his love affair with the Brooklyn Bridge. \n  \n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/building-the-brooklyn-bridge-1869-to-1883/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220215
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fund Application Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Know someone who is working on a neat preservation project? Tell them to apply to the Margot Gayle Fund! The deadline is February 14th.  Please see the Margot Gayle Fund Page on our website for full details on how to apply.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margot-gayle-fund-application-deadline-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
CREATED:20220203T025214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T025301Z
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SUMMARY:Been There\, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
DESCRIPTION:Author Rachel Feltman will talk about her forthcoming book.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nRoman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical treatments for erectile dysfunction included goat testicle transplants. Sex has changed in a million ways since Adam and Eve\, the original awkward virgins\, and in a million others it hasn’t. With unstoppable curiosity and mischievous humor\, science writer Rachel Feltman debunks myths\, breaks down stigma\, and uses the long\, outlandish history of sex to dissect present-day practices\, attitudes\, and taboos in. Feltman will share some of her favorite misconceptions about sex\, with a particular eye toward the oft-misrepresented Victorian era. \nRachel Feltman is the Executive Editor of Popular Science\, where she also hosts the hit podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. She has written for Scientific American\, The Washington Post\, Quartz\, Popular Mechanics\, and The Atlantic on everything from herpes to Uranus. Her first book\, Been There\, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex\, will be released by Bold Type on May 17\, 2022 and is available for preorder now. \n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/been-there-done-that-a-rousing-history-of-sex/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion
DESCRIPTION:Wealthy American women—as consumers and as influencers—helped shape French couture of the late nineteenth century.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with Elizabeth L. Block\, PhD\, author of Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (MIT Press). \nFrench fashion of the late nineteenth century is known for its allure\, its ineffable chic —think of John Singer Sargent’s Madame X and her scandalously slipping strap. For Parisian couturiers and their U.S. customers\, it was also serious business. In Dressing Up\, Elizabeth Block examines the couturiers’ influential clientele—wealthy women in the United States who bolstered the French fashion industry with a steady stream of orders. Countering the usual narrative of the designer as solo creative genius\, Block shows that these women—as high-volume customers and as pre-Internet influencers—were active participants in the era’s transnational fashion system. \nElizabeth L. Block\, PhD\, an art historian\, is Senior Editor in the Publications and Editorial Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has contributed to publications including American Art and West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts\, Design History\, and Material Culture. Her book\, Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (2021)\, published by MIT Press\, is available now. \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/dressing-up-the-women-who-influenced-french-fashion/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220315
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:2022 Emerging Scholars – Deadline for Proposals
DESCRIPTION:The Victorian Society New York invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by March 14\, 2022\, for its annual “Emerging Scholars” evening event on May 16\, 2022. The nonprofit VSNY\, founded in 1966\, supports scholarship about every aspect of 19th-century and early-20th-century culture\, including architecture\, literature\, theater\, fine and decorative art\, immigration\, economics\, politics\, education\, gender roles\, reform movements\, fashion\, and food. Topics for recent event winners have included 19th-century cookbook recipes revealing artistic gluttony\, skaters’ athleticism\, ethnophobia manifested in men’s shirt collar ads\, and women’s alleged hatpin savagery. \nFor the May 16 event\, 6 to 7:30 pm (in person if global health conditions permit\, otherwise via Zoom)\, VSNY will bring in three current students or recent grads to each give a 20-minute presentation and then field questions. Send 200-word proposals (preference given to American/New York topics) and CVs by March 14 to info@vicsocny.org. \nSpeakers will receive a free VSNY year membership ($40 value)\, and their talks will be recorded and made publicly available on VSNY’s website.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/vsny-emerging-scholars-deadline-for-proposals/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:In-Person Tour - Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\nAn in-person curator-led tour of a new exhibit at Poster House in Manhattan\, Ethel Reed: I Am My Own Property. Angelina Lippert\, Poster House’s chief curator\, will lead attendees through a retrospective of the artist and designer Ethel Reed (1874-1912). In 1895\, Reed shot to fame as a fresh talent in the male-dominated realm of poster design\, but after just three years as a darling of the international press\, she disappeared from public life. She is best known now for her advertisements for literary publications primarily based in Boston. Recent scholarship\, based on her correspondence and news articles of her time\, sheds light on an autobiographical\, oftentimes dark and defiant\, thread running through her illustrations. At Poster House (founded in 2019 as America’s only museum devoted to posters)\, the show’s exploration of her life and work reveals the struggles of being a Gilded Age female artist while also touching on issues of class\, addiction\, mental health\, conservative societal expectations\, and sexuality. \nMeet at 119 West 23rd St. NYC vaccination protocols will be in place\, please be prepared to show your proof of vaccination. \n\n\n  \nReserve Your Tickets Here\n  \n \n\n\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/in-person-tour-ethel-reed-i-am-my-own-property/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fundraiser: Exclusive Tour of Bailey (of Barnum and Bailey)'s Private Mansion
DESCRIPTION:In-person Margot Gayle Benefit Tour\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThis special tour will focus on the Bailey mansion’s ongoing restoration and will be led by the current owners\, followed by a toast. \nCompleted in 1888 for the celebrated circus director James A. Bailey of Barnum & Bailey Circus\, the striking limestone Bailey mansion was built to impress. Evoking a castle\, the home’s numerous arches and gables are anchored by a three-story turret. The interiors were designed by Joseph Burr Tiffany\, a cousin of Louis Comfort Tiffany\, and contain ornate woodwork and excellent examples of domestic stained glass. \nAfter numerous owners\, a fire\, and years of disrepair\, the Bailey mansion in Harlem has survived and stands as one of the most spectacular single-family residences in New York City. Current owners Martin and Jenny Spollen have been restoring this twenty-nine-room mansion since they purchased it in 2009 and will share their progress with us. \nSpace is limited so please register early! \nExact Harlem location will be revealed after registration. \n—- \nThe Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage was established in 2003 to honor Margot Gayle (1908-2008)\, an eminent preservationist who was one of the founders of the Victorian Society in America. The Victorian Society New York (officially known as the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America) regularly awards monetary grants from this fund to projects related to the preservation\, conservation\, and/or interpretation of material culture in the New York metropolitan area from c. 1837 to 1919. Projects may focus on any aspect of material culture from this period\, including but not limited to\, architecture\, landscape design\, fine and decorative arts or other aspects of visual culture\, technology\, and industry. \n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/private-tour-of-the-famed-bailey-mansion-in-person/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Gilded Age: Gold in America
DESCRIPTION:John Stuart Gordon\, curator of Yale University Art Gallery’s Gold in America: Artistry\, Memory\, Power\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nGold’s warm glow\, resistance to corrosion\, and rarity have made it a preferred material for objects meant to convey prestige\, authority\, or devotion. This talk by John Stuart Gordon\, curator of Yale University Art Gallery’s current show\, Gold in America: Artistry\, Memory\, Power\, will focus on the exuberant and tumultuous years between the Gold Rush of 1848 and World War I. During this period\, precious metal embodied promise\, success\, cunning\, and greed. The discovery of gold in California lured fortune-seekers from around the globe\, a handful of whom used their newfound wealth to shape New York’s culture. Once the nation moved onto the gold standard\, the material became political and\, in the hands of some sculptors\, quietly subversive. Many of the sumptuous objects\, coins\, and paintings in this talk are included in the exhibition\, Gold in America\, on display through July 10\, 2022. \nJohn Stuart Gordon is the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Curator of American Decorative Arts at Yale University Art Gallery. John works on all aspects of American decorative arts and material culture\, but his specialties are silver\, modernist designs of the 1920s and 1930s\, and postmodernism. In addition to his curatorial work\, he supervises Furniture Study\, the Art Gallery’s expansive study collection of American furniture and wooden objects. \nImage: Tiffany and Company\, Coffee Service for Alice Belin du Pont\, New York\, designed 1910–11. 18-karat gold. Yale University Art Gallery\, Gift of G. d’Andelot Belin\, B.A. 1939 \n\n\n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/beyond-the-gilded-age-gold-in-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:Back Number Budd - In Person Talk
DESCRIPTION:An African American Innovator in the Old Newspaper Business\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nVictorian New Yorkers and their institutions did not consider old newspapers valuable and did not reliably save them. Researchers and others who needed outdated newspapers and magazines had little chance of finding what they wanted unless they happened to learn of Robert M. Budd\, better known as Back Number Budd. This African American dealer stockpiled millions of old newspapers\, operating from the 1880s into the early 1930s\, in Manhattan’s Tenderloin and in Ravenswood\, Queens. Ellen Gruber Garvey’s talk will explore Budd’s pioneering work\, his novel methods of obtaining materials from hotels\, from clubs and libraries\, and through trades and bets. Racism constrained his business and customers’ understanding of it. \nAnyone who has been blocked from access to research materials during COVID lockdown and restrictions has become sensitized to questions of access. This talk will examine people’s difficulties finding and gaining access to information sources in the 19th century. \nEllen Gruber Garvey is the author of two prize-winning books\, Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance\, and The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture\, 1880s-1910s (both from Oxford University Press). She writes and speaks on historical scrapbooks\, on how our ancestors managed the floods of information they were drowning in at the end of the 19th century\, how abolitionists mined the press as a database\, the scandal of women’s bicycling in the 19th century\, and much else. She has written for CNN\, The Washington Post\, New York Times Disunion blog\, The Forward\, and The Root. She is Professor Emerita at New Jersey City University\, and lives on the Lower East Side. \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/back-number-budd-in-person-talk/
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SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars: Brooklyn's Cyclorama\, Sheet Music Xenophobia\, and an Electric Gown
DESCRIPTION:Victorian Society New York’s annual Emerging Scholars\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nWinners of the Victorian Society New York’s annual Emerging Scholars contest will speak on a fascinating array of topics. Hannah Morand\, a graduate student at the University of Toronto\, will analyze a 120-foot-long panoramic painting of a U.S. Army victory at Gettysburg\, shown in the 1880s at venues including a freestanding circular building near Brooklyn’s City Hall. Anna Lea\, a graduate student at the University of Vienna\, will explore caricatures and interpretations of Chinese people and Chinese Americans in Tin Pan Alley sheet music and compositions. Madeline Porsella of the Bard Graduate Center will reveal new discoveries about a Vanderbilt heiress cladding herself in a gilt-trimmed dress embroidered with lightning bolts and illuminated by battery-powered light bulbs. \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-scholars-brooklyns-cyclorama-sheet-music-xenophobia-and-an-electric-gown/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T183000
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SUMMARY:55th Annual Meeting - In Person!
DESCRIPTION:  \nAll are welcome at the Victorian Society New York Annual Meeting\, Awards Showcase and reception! Tickets include a one-year membership. \n\n\nAbout this event\nIN PERSON Presentation & Reception \nThe Church of the Holy Trinity\n316 East 88th Street\nNew York\, NY 10128\nThursday\, June 23rd\, 2022\n6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n  \nAfter a two-year hiatus\, we are thrilled to be back in person for our 55th annual meeting. \nCurrent Members\, new Members and guests are invited to join us at the lovely and historic Church of the Holy Trinity where we will vote in new Board members\, showcase this year’s award winners\, highlight our Margot Gayle Grant Awardees\, and hear our Treasurer’s and President’s report. \nReception to follow with libations\, light bites\, and (of course) general merriment. \nWe so look forward to seeing you there! \nReserve Your Tickets Here!
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/55th-annual-meeting-metropolitan-chapter-victorian-society-of-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T183000
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SUMMARY:In-Person Lecture: The Divorce Colony
DESCRIPTION:How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier\nThis is an in-person lecture at:\nJefferson Market Library\n425 6th Avenue\nNew York\, NY 10011 \nFor a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century\, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls\, South Dakota. On the American frontier\, the new state’s laws offered a tempting freedom often difficult to obtain elsewhere: divorce. \n\n\n\nWith the laxest divorce laws in the country\, five railroad lines\, and the finest hotel for hundreds of miles\, the small city became the unexpected headquarters for society divorcees—infamous around the world as the “divorce colony.” These Gilded Age divorce seekers put Sioux Falls at the center of a heated national debate over the future of American marriage\, one that would forever change the country’s understanding of marriage. \nIn this talk\, April White\, author of The Divorce Colony\, will explore this enlightening\, infuriating\, and surprisingly feminist chapter in American history. It is a story both deliciously scandalous and undeniably important\, as the United States continues to debate a woman’s autonomy over her own life. \nApril White is a senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura. She previously worked as an editor at Smithsonian Magazine. She holds a master’s degree in history and her work has appeared in the Washington Post\, Politico\, Slate\, and The Atavist Magazine\, among other publications. \n\nReserve Your Tickets Here\n\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/in-person-lecture-the-divorce-colony/
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SUMMARY:In-Person Lecture: DEATHS OF ARTISTS
DESCRIPTION:Macabre scrapbooks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art \nThis is an in-person lecture at:\nJefferson Market Library\n425 6th Avenue\nNew York\, NY 10011 \nTwo macabre scrapbooks preserved in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art are packed with century-old obituaries of artists who died tragically by suicide\, foul play\, disease\, or in bizarre accidents. Jim Moske profiles the eccentric curator who compiled this strange archive\, and shares images of the most startling headlines and stories. These grim fragments retrieved from the past echo disturbing themes and motifs common in popular depictions of creative people for centuries. \nJim Moske is Managing Archivist of The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, where he conserves and shares historical records documenting the Met’s 150-year history. He is in his fourth decade of professional practice in the field of cultural resources management\, with past roles at New York Public Library\, Ford Foundation\, and City University of New York. In his creative practice\, Jim explores the visual qualities and unintended meanings of archives through research\, writing\, and picture-making. \nReserve Your Tickets Here\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/in-person-lecture-deaths-of-artists/
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