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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T183000
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SUMMARY:Victorian Carol Sing-a-long - IN-PERSON Holiday Concert & Reception
DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with Friends of the Urban Organ at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral \n261 Mott Street\, New York Ny \nThursday\, December 15th \n6:30 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. \nTickets Here!\nFor Victorian Society Members\, be sure to use the promocode: “VICTORIAN” at checkout for 50% off your tickets.  \nVictorian-era carols\, seasonal music and readings featuring two historic pipe organs! Plus: Festive treats\, and the chance to see and hear the 1868 Erben organ up-close. \nAbout the Event: We are pleased to join the Friends of the Erben Organ for a merry evening of Victorian-era carols\, seasonal music and readings. \n* Festive treats and libations are included with the Victorian Carol Sing! * 19th-century attire is encouraged. \nThose who wish to see the historic 1868 Erben Organ with Director of Music Jared Lamenzo may purchase  separate tickets here. Organ tours are offered at 5:30 pm or 6pm\, prior to the carol sing. \n$20K Matching Grant! \nAll donations on top of ticket price will be matched with the Friends of the Erben Organ’s $20K Fall Matching Grant! Thank you for your support! \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/victorian-carol-sing-a-long-in-person-holiday-concert-reception/
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: Coastal Connections: Savannah and New York in the 19th Century - Online Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Online talk with Tania June Sammons \n(New Date!) Wednesday\, January 4th 6:30 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. \nSpanning the 19th century\, New York’s influence on Savannah reached nearly everyone in the city and surrounding area\, including the enslaved men and women whose labor facilitated the cotton industry before the Civil War. However\, the physical interaction between the coastal cities mostly transpired through Savannah’s wealthiest residents\, as well as the New York craftsmen who worked in Savannah\, and the local retailers who imported New York goods. Coastal Connections: Savannah and New York in the 19th Century focuses on three specific areas of influence: architecture\, furniture\, and silver. The presentation surveys New York’s impact on each area within Savannah\, and provides a broader understanding about the importance of this northern city and state on Georgia’s largest and most important coastal city. \nVictorian Society’s Savannah Chapter President Tania June Sammons is an award-winning writer\, curator\, public historian\, and museum specialist who tells stories about people\, history\, museums\, art\, and architecture. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history with a minor in studio art from the University of Kentucky\, and a Master of Arts degree in American history from Armstrong State University (now part of Georgia Southern University)\, and attended Newport Summer School in 2013. She has worked for numerous museums\, mostly in Savannah\, including the Andrew Low House and Telfair Museums\, where she served as registrar\, curator of the Owens-Thomas House\, senior curator of decorative arts and historic sites\, and project director for the museum’s Slavery and Freedom in Savannah project. She has published four books\, many articles\, and curated two dozen exhibitions. Presently she is writing the history of Chatham-Savannah Citizen Advocacy\, and a biography about Kahlil Gibran’s patron Mary Haskell Minis. \n  \nReserve Your Tickets Here
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/coastal-connections-savannah-and-new-york-in-the-19th-century/
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SUMMARY:Painting Dissent: The American Pre-Raphaelite Movement
DESCRIPTION:Register for this Online Lecture Here\nThe American Pre-Raphaelites launched the earliest reform movement in the history of American art. Founded in 1863\, in the midst of the American Civil War\, the movement comprised politically radical\, abolitionist artists\, joined by like-minded architects\, critics\, and scientists. In the decade that followed\, the American Pre-Raphaelites executed paintings\, designed buildings\, and published criticism that married principles of social equity\, civic engagement\, and beauty. Such work\, they believed\, could foster lasting cultural and political reform. \nThis lecture explores how the American Pre-Raphaelites dismantled national traditions of painting\, embracing models of landscape theory and artistic praxis drawn from their British counterparts across the Atlantic. In contrast to their more prominent colleagues\, the artists now known as the “Hudson River School\,” the American Pre-Raphaelites established themselves as eloquent critics of slavery and antebellum American society. \nSophie Lynford is the Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art at the Delaware Art Museum. She is a specialist in nineteenth-century British and American art. Prior to joining the Delaware Art Museum\, she was the Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art at the Harvard Art Museums\, the Douglass Foundation Fellow in American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and she worked in the curatorial departments of the New-York Historical Society and the Yale Center for British Art. Her book\, Painting Dissent: Art\, Ethics\, and the American Pre-Raphaelites\, was published by Princeton University Press in fall 2022. \n  \n \nCaption information: Thomas Charles Farrer\, A Buckwheat Field on Thomas Cole’s Farm\, 1863.Oil on canvas\, 11 3/4 x 25 1/4 in. (29.8 x 64.1 cm). Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings\, 1815–1865. \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/painting-dissent-the-american-pre-raphaelite-movement/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T153000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Tea Talk at the Salmagundi:  Gilded Age Silver: All that Glittered was not Always Gold
DESCRIPTION:IN-PERSON Conversation & Tea Reception with host Carl Raymond & Guest Ben Miller at \nSalmagundi Club \n47 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY \nThursday\, February 16th \n3:30pm \n\nTickets Here! \nReservations Required. \nVSNY is pleased to co-sponsor a tea-time conversation with our friends at the Salmagundi Club\, The Royal Oak Foundation and The Magazine Antiques. \nAbout the Event \n3:30pm interview and audience Q&A\, followed by a reception featuring afternoon tea with sweet and savory treats in the Salmagundi Dining Room. \nJoin host Carl Raymond\, of The Gilded Gentleman Podcast\, and Ben Miller\, 19th century silver expert with S.J. Shrubsole and host of the Curious Objects podcast (produced by The Magazine Antiques) for a look at silver during the 19th century and particularly in the Gilded Age. Ben and Carl will discuss how silver making evolved during the 19th century from the influence of 18th century masters such as Paul Revere and the English silver makers through to the revolutionary work of Charles Tiffany and other notable designers.  The talk will include images of some of the Gilded Ages great pieces along with the stories behind them as well as some tips on how to evaluate your own 19th century silver.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/afternoon-tea-talk-at-the-salmagundi-gilded-age-silver-all-that-glittered-was-not-always-gold/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T183000
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SUMMARY:Last Seen: Newspaper Ads Documenting the Long Search for Families Separated by the Slave Trade
DESCRIPTION:Free Cross-Promoted Lecture at the Jefferson Market Library:\nRegister for this event here.\nThis will be an in-person lecture held at: \nJefferson Market Library425 Avenue of the Americas New York\, NY 10011 \nIn the years after emancipation (1865)\, formerly enslaved Americans took out newspaper ads by the thousands\, looking for family members and other loved ones separated during the domestic slave trade. Each ad tells the story of a family formed in slavery and torn apart by sale. Since 2017\, Judith Giesberg\, Professor of History at Villanova University\, has directed Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery\, a project with a team of scholars working to identify\, digitize\, transcribe\, and publish these ads from Black newspapers across America. \nThe ads began appearing in the 1830s\, proliferated after emancipation\, and continued well into the 20th century. While documenting separation of Black families through the domestic slave trade\, they also attest to the persistent efforts thousands of people made to reunite with loved ones. Parents\, siblings and children searched for each other\, and men and women looked for partners and spouses\, providing names\, describing events\, and recalling last seen locations. All this information\, crucial to genealogists and scholars alike\, is published in an open-access form on the Last Seen website. \nThe team initially aimed to publish 1\,000 postbellum ads from a few newspapers\, to help document the transition from slavery to freedom. The project now includes over 4\,500 ads\, spanning eight decades\, from 275 newspapers. Its goal is to publish 5\,000 ads\, making them freely available to the descendants of enslaved people. Last Seen also offers lesson plans and other classroom resources for teachers (at all grade levels) to help teach the hard history of slavery. \nPresented in the first floor Willa Cather Room. \nJudith Giesberg is Robert M. Birmingham Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at Villanova University. Her books include Civil War Sisterhood: The United States Sanitary Commission and Women’s Politics in Transition (Boston: Northeastern University Press\, 2000);“Army at Home:” Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press\, 2009); Keystone State in Crisis: Pennsylvania in the Civil War (Pennsylvania Historical Association\, 2013); Emilie Davis’s Civil War:  The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia\, 1863-1865 (State College: Pennsylvania State University Press\, 2014); and Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers\, Pornography\, and the Making of Modern Morality (University of North Carolina Press\, 2017).
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/last-seen-newspaper-ads-documenting-the-long-search-for-families-separated-by-the-slave-trade/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T183000
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SUMMARY:Alice Dunbar-Nelson: A Respectable Activist in the Late Victorian Age
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tara Green discusses Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s early years in New Orleans and Brooklyn from her new book \nRegister for this Online Lecture Here\nBy the time Alice Dunbar-Nelson published her first volume of fiction and poems in 1895\, she had begun her career as an English teacher and respectable activist. It was also in that year that she began corresponding with the well-known writer Paul Laurence Dunbar who would become her first of three husbands. This presentation will provide participants with an overview of her early years in New Orleans but will focus primarily on her life in Brooklyn. \nTara T. Green\, PhD is Founding Department Chair and CLASS Professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston where she teaches Black Women’s studies and literature courses. She is the author of Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature\, Television\, and Spring (2018)\, the award-winning A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men (2009) and See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure during the Interwar Era (2022)\, and she is also the editor of two books. Professor Green is from the New Orleans area. For more about her visit: www.drtaratgreen.com \nTo buy: Love\, Activism\, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson \n  \n \n \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/alice-dunbar-nelson-a-respectable-activist-in-the-late-victorian-age/
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SUMMARY:Call for Proposals: Emerging Scholars 2023 Event - Submissions Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Submissions Deadline March 10th\, 2023 \nEvent will be held evening of May 10th\, 2023 in NYC\, 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m. \nThe Victorian Society New York invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by March 10 for its annual “Emerging Scholars” evening event on May 10\, 2023. \nThe nonprofit VSNY (vicsocny.org)\, 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\, music\, fashion\, and food. Topics for recent event winners have included an electric gown\, Civil War panoramas\, and accusations of hatpin savagery. \nFor the May 10 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 10 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/call-for-proposals-emerging-scholars-2023-event-submissions-deadline/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230317
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fund - Application Deadline
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nDeadline: Friday\, March 17th\, 2023 for May award(s) \nDownload Margot Gayle Grant Application 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margot-gayle-fund-application-deadling/
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SUMMARY:In-Person Event: Gilded Age Reformer Zoe Anderson Norris Rediscovered
DESCRIPTION:In-Person Event at the Grolier Club  \n47 East 60th Street \nNew York\, NY 10022 \nTickets Here\nPart of the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project collection. \nLecture with music and reception celebrates exhibition “To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris” and Tin Pan Alley songs. \nOn March 27\, 5:30 to 7 pm\, independent scholar Eve M. Kahn will give a tour of her exhibition at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th Street)\, To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris\, Queen of Bohemia. Norris (1860-1914)\, although little remembered today\, was a foremother of modern-day social-justice advocates and confessional bloggers baring souls in print. In millions of published words of fiction and journalism – including in her own bimonthly magazine\, The East Side (1909-1914) – she documented desperate immigrant poverty in New York and called for the world to heed and help. \nKahn’s show features the only complete run of The East Side known to survive in private hands\, as well as Norris’s novels and dozens of periodicals featuring her work alongside illustrations by major Gilded Age artists. Also on view are artifacts from Norris’s childhood and youth in Kentucky and Kansas; publications by her friends\, including members of her bohemian organization\, the Ragged Edge Klub; and souvenir postcards and even dinnerware from the Klub’s favorite restaurants. \nNorris covered issues that still resonate: corrupt policemen harassing street peddlers\, powerful male editors going unpunished for plagiarism or sexual assault\, trafficked sex workers futilely pleading for help escaping the streets. Norris’s goal: “To fight for the poor with my pen.” Sometimes she reported undercover\, dressed as a blind beggar or a stranded tourist\, to gauge reactions from policemen and philanthropists. She went broke as she wrote about poverty and reflected on her own life journey\, battling incompetent printers and distributors\, and granting herself all East Side masthead titles including bootblack\, circulation liar\, and “the whole shebang.” \nEve Kahn\, former weekly Antiques columnist for The New York Times\, is finishing a biography of Norris for an academic press. The elevator pitch: “the Nellie Bly you’ve never heard of.” \nThe tour will also include the Grolier Club’s little-known but spectacular interior\, with one room modeled after a 17th-century British university library and another after a 17th-century New York taproom. Keen-eyed visitors will spot a blowfish and a secret stairway.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/in-person-event-gilded-age-reformer-zoe-anderson-norris-rediscovered/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T173000
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SUMMARY:In-Person Tour: Gilded Age Reformer Zoe Anderson Norris Rediscovered
DESCRIPTION:At the Grolier Club \n47 East 60th Street \nTickets Here!\nIndependent scholar Eve M. Kahn will give a tour of her exhibition at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th Street)\, To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris\, Queen of Bohemia. Norris (1860-1914)\, although little remembered today\, was a foremother of modern-day social-justice advocates and confessional bloggers baring souls in print. In millions of published words of fiction and journalism – including in her own bimonthly magazine\, The East Side (1909-1914) – she documented desperate immigrant poverty in New York and called for the world to heed and help. \nKahn’s show features the only complete run of The East Side known to survive in private hands\, as well as Norris’s novels and dozens of periodicals featuring her work alongside illustrations by major Gilded Age artists. Also on view are artifacts from Norris’s childhood and youth in Kentucky and Kansas; publications by her friends\, including members of her bohemian organization\, the Ragged Edge Klub; and souvenir postcards and even dinnerware from the Klub’s favorite restaurants. \nNorris covered issues that still resonate: corrupt policemen harassing street peddlers\, powerful male editors going unpunished for plagiarism or sexual assault\, trafficked sex workers futilely pleading for help escaping the streets. Norris’s goal: “To fight for the poor with my pen.” Sometimes she reported undercover\, dressed as a blind beggar or a stranded tourist\, to gauge reactions from policemen and philanthropists. She went broke as she wrote about poverty and reflected on her own life journey\, battling incompetent printers and distributors\, and granting herself all East Side masthead titles including bootblack\, circulation liar\, and “the whole shebang.” \nEve Kahn\, former weekly Antiques columnist for The New York Times\, is finishing a biography of Norris for an academic press. The elevator pitch: “the Nellie Bly you’ve never heard of.” \nThe tour will also include the Grolier Club’s little-known but spectacular interior\, with one room modeled after a 17th-century British university library and another after a 17th-century New York taproom. Keen-eyed visitors will spot a blowfish and a secret stairway.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/in-person-tour-gilded-age-reformer-zoe-anderson-norris-rediscovered/
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SUMMARY:In-Person Tour: The Rosen House at Caramoor
DESCRIPTION:At Caramoor \n149 Girdle Ridge Rd\, Katonah\, NY \nTickets Here!\nThis expert-led tour will explore Caramoor’s spectacular Mediterranean Revival mansion in Katonah\, NY\, with furnishings including entire rooms imported from Europe and a surprising connection to early electronic music. \nFinished in 1939 after more than a decade of work\, Caramoor was the country estate of Walter and Lucie Rosen. He was a Berlin-born\, Harvard and NYU Law School-educated arts patron and international banker specializing in railroads. Her many artistic interests included the theremin\, the world’s first electronic instrument\, which she played on concert tours in Europe and America. The Rosens worked with little-known architect Christian Rosborg to create a Mediterranean Revival compound of 25\,000 sq.ft. Meticulously preserved highlights include 18th-century Italian lacquer panels and hand-painted Chinese wallpaper; a 17th-century Burgundian library with biblical scenes painted on its periwinkle-blue vaulted ceiling; and architectural elements and artworks by or attributed to Tiepolo\, Andrea della Robbia\, and Lucas Cranach. The prominent New York firm Edward F. Caldwell & Co supplied the lighting and other metalwork\, making Caramoor’s Caldwell collection one of the largest in the United States. The Rosens also collected Urbino maiolica; armchairs from the 17th and 18th centuries upholstered in exquisite needlework; and Asian works in enamel\, porcelain\, limestone\, and jade. \nTour attendees will be given VIP access to special objects\, including examples of Lucie Rosen’s clothing and materials related to her 1913 “disappearance” in London just before her marriage. Tea and biscuits will be served in one of the mansion’s stunning dining areas. \nTicket price covers the tour only\, not transportation to Caramoor. If taking MetroNorth a group will plan to leave from Grand Central in the morning – meeting time to be announced closer to the day.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/in-person-tour-the-rosen-house-at-caramoor/
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SUMMARY:In-Person Tour: Crafting Freedom: The Life & Legacy of Free Black Potter\, Thomas W. Commeraw
DESCRIPTION:At the New-York Historical Society \n170 Central Park West \nTickets Here!\nNew-York Historical Society curators will give a private tour of the first exhibition dedicated to Thomas Commeraw\, a skilled craftsman in Lower Manhattan active from the 1790s to 1819\, whose racial identity was long overlooked. \nBorn enslaved\, Commeraw rose to prominence as a free Black entrepreneur\, owning and operating a successful pottery. For two decades\, Commeraw amassed property\, engaged in debates over state and national politics\, and participated in the life of New York City’s free Black community. The exhibition explores Commeraw’s multi-faceted history—as a craftsman\, business owner\, family man\, and citizen—and sheds light on his milieu and techniques for making beautiful utilitarian forms. The potter’s personal\, political\, and civic activities come alive through other artifacts\, newspaper clippings\, broadsides\, books\, and documents\, including a certificate of freedom bearing Commeraw’s signature and first-hand accounts of his fraught journey to Sierra Leone with the American Colonization Society. \nTicket price includes full-day Museum admission\, individual vouchers for reduced Regular Admission tickets on a future visit\, a 10% discount in the Museum Store and access to screenings of films We Rise and New York Story.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/in-person-tour-crafting-freedom-the-life-legacy-of-free-black-potter-thomas-w-commeraw/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T183000
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SUMMARY:2023 Emerging Scholars: The Woman's Era\, Maids' Uniforms\, and artist Maria Richards Oakey Dewing
DESCRIPTION:The Victorian Society’s Emerging Scholars Event will be on May 10th\, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at the Jefferson Market Library on 6th Avenue. \nFree! Registration Required \nVSNY is pleased to host three scholars\, each giving a 20-minute presentation and followed by questions: \nNYU Costume Studies alumna Juliana Cirillo will explore aspects of ethnicity and class as revealed in 19th-century maids’ uniforms. \nYale University Art Gallery fellow Audrey Steinkamp will discuss turn of the century paintings by under-appreciated artist Maria Richards Oakey Dewing. \nColumbia University PhD student Julia Carabatsos will analyze visual and material strategies that Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and her editorial staff employed in The Woman’s Era\, an 1890s periodical primarily written by and for Black women.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/save-the-date-emerging-scholars-2023-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T203000
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fundraiser: Tour of Hunt Slonem's Studio
DESCRIPTION:Join Us! Annual VSNY Margot Gayle Fundraiser\nWhen: Wednesday\, May 24th 2023 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM \nWhere: Hunt Slonem’s Manhattan Studio (location confirmed with ticket purchase) \n\nContemporary artist Hunt Slonem is one of the most collected painters working today. His neo-Expressionist depictions of nature – including his iconic bunnies and parrots  — are eagerly acquired by adoring celebrity clients\, museums\, and galleries around the world. Beyond painting\, Slonem’s passion in life is for historic mansions. He has restored eight National Landmark homes\, curating a distinctive decor in which his own art sits alongside antiques and rare nineteenth-century furnishings.  Join the Victorian Society of New York for a rare and exclusive tour of Hunt’s extraordinary Manhattan studio\, where he works amongst a profusion of Victorian antiques\, rare tropical birds and art.  We will see a preview of Board member Brian Coleman’s upcoming book on Slonem’s homes and guests will receive a voucher for a signed copy when it is released this fall.  A festive toast will follow the tour and book presentation. \n Attendance is limited; please register early! \nGet Tickets Here\nTicket Prices: \nMembers: $100 (including signed book) \nNon-Members: $125 (including signed book)
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margot-gayle-fundraiser-tour-of-hunt-slonems-studio/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T200000
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SUMMARY:2023 Annual Meeting & Reception
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome at the Victorian Society New York’s Annual Meeting\, Awards Showcase\, and reception!\nWhen: Tuesday June 6th\, 6:30 – 8pm\nWhere: Church of the Ascension\, 5th Ave & W. 10th Street\nAbout the Event: \nCurrent members\, new members and guests are invited to join us at the lovely and historic Church of the Ascension in Greenwich Village 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. \nCelebratory reception to follow with libations\, light bites\, and (of course) general merriment. \nTICKETS HERE!\nFree for members; $50 for guest tickets includes 1 year membership\nMargot Gayle Grantees to be recognized are: \nSalmagundi Club – book conservation project \nWoodlawn Cemetery – protective covering for restored Tiffany monument \nLandmarks West! – online database of religious structures on Upper West Side \nFriends of the Erben Organ – conservation \nSonia Abrego – research on Sweet-Orr and women’s workplace history \nWe so look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/2023-annual-meeting-reception/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T200000
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SUMMARY:Newport Cottages 1835-1890: The Summer Villas Before the Vanderbilt Era
DESCRIPTION:Step Back in Time and Explore the Newport Cottages from 1835 through 1890\, before the Vanderbilt Era\nIn-Person Event & Book Signing\nMontauk Club \n25 Eighth Avenue \nBrooklyn\, New York 11217 \nFree Tickets Available Here\nAuthor Michael Kathrens will present a compelling account of the luxury and splendor of Newport’s nineteenth-century summer “cottages\,” the subject of his most recent book. In the decades since 1835\, when the first private house was built exclusively for seasonal use\, scores of magnificent homes were commissioned by a burgeoning summer colony whose members were among America’s wealthiest and most prominent families\, including the Schermerhorns\, Lorillards\, Goelets\, and Joneses. They built their summer residences in neighborhoods known today as Kay-Catherine-Old Beach Road\, Bellevue Avenue\, Ochre Point\, and Ocean Drive\, commissioning local talents such as George Champlin Mason\, Sr.\, Seth C. Bradford\, and Dudley Newton as well as nationally renowned architects such as Richard Morris Hunt\, McKim\, Mead & White\, and Peabody & Stearns. These opulent private houses often rivaled the sumptuousness of the later Gilded Age mansions\, the subject of Kathrens’s earlier publication\, Newport Villas: The Revival Styles\, 1885–1935. Kathrens will discuss in detail some of the ownership histories of the 36 exceptional houses profiled in his new book\, including Cannon Hill\, Chateau-sur-Mer\, Elm Court\, Beaulieu\, Land’s End\, the original Breakers\, Ochre Point\, and Chastellux\, while sharing visual documentation not only of the original structures\, but also of later renovations\, including newly commissioned photography. \nBook signing to follow. \n \nMichael C. Kathrens is an independent scholar specializing in American residential architecture and interior decoration of the mid-19th through the early 20th centuries. His previous publications include American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer\, The Great Houses of New York: 1880-1930\, Newport Villas: 1885-1935\, The Revival Styles\, and Kansas City Houses 1885-1938. Kathrens is currently working on three projects: The Houses of Ogden Codman Jr.\, New York Penthouses and Maisonettes\, and a comprehensive study of prominent historical Kansas City stores. \nCo-sponsored with: \nThe Alumni Association of the Victorian Society Summer Schools \nand \nVictorian Society in America
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/newport-cottages-1835-1890-the-summer-villas-before-the-vanderbilt-era/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T183000
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SUMMARY:Unsung Victorian Women's Work
DESCRIPTION:Hear from the Curators of Women’s Work\, a New Exhibition at the New-York Historical Society\nJefferson Market Library \n425 Sixth Avenue \nNew York\, New York 10011 \nFree Tickets Available Here\nAllison Robinson and Jeanne Gutierrez\, curators of Women’s Work\, a new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History\, will speak on how they chose 45 objects representing how “women’s work” defies categorization. The show’s highlights range from an 18th-century merchant’s collection of fabric swatches to a brown paper delivery bag used during the COVID-19 pandemic. This talk will focus on the exhibition’s 19th-century contingent\, including a mahogany cradle\, a birth certificate and indenture\, a beaded pincushion\, a medical kit\, a lady’s work table\, portraits\, and more. These objects demonstrate that women’s work has always been essential to American society and is inherently political: women’s work is everywhere. \nAllison Robinson\, an associate curator at the New-York Historical Society\, earned her bachelor’s degree at Yale and her PhD from the University of Chicago. Jeanne Gutierrez\, a curatorial scholar in women’s history at the New-York Historical Society\, holds a MA from the Bard Graduate Center and is a doctoral candidate in History at the CUNY Graduate Center. \n \nAbove: Lewis W. Hine\, Group of women in sweatshop of Mr. Sentrei\, 87 Ridge Street\, second inner court. Small girl is Mamie Gerhino\, 202 Elizabeth Street. She might have been 14 years old. Photo 5 P.M.\, February 21\, 1908. Witness Mrs. Lillian Hosford. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. \nTop Image: Sweatshop of Mr. Goldstein 30 Suffolk St. Witness Mrs. L. Hosford. February 1908. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/unsung-victorian-womens-work/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T200000
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Arcadia: A Conversation with Author Andrew Garn
DESCRIPTION:Join Photographer and Author Andrew Garn for a Discussion of Brooklyn Arcadia\, a New Book Highlighting Brooklyn’s Majestic Green-Wood Cemetery\nGreen-Wood Cemetery \n500 25th Street \nBrooklyn\, New York 11232 \n(Enter at the Modern Chapel near the Main Entrance at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street) \nFree Tickets Available Here\nGreen-Wood Cemetery draws nearly half a million visitors every year who marvel at its unique combination of art\, history\, and nature. Photographer and author Andrew Garn is one such visitor. Discovering a love for the cemetery—its stately monuments\, complex history\, and fascinating flora and fauna—during his almost daily walks\, Garn began taking thousands of photographs documenting his explorations and discoveries. \nBrooklyn Arcadia: Art\, History\, and Nature at Majestic Green-Wood\, just published by Rizzoli\, beautifully chronicles Garn’s observations in hundreds of stunning images taken primarily between 2020 and 2023. At once a celebration and an invitation\, the book ranges from a consideration of Green-Wood’s natural landscape to a close look at its architecture\, statuary\, symbols\, flora\, fauna\, and typography. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Garn in the Modern Chapel for a discussion of Brooklyn Arcadia. You’ll hear about his artistic process and how the book came to be\, followed by an opportunity to ask questions. \nThis program is presented in partnership with The Green-Wood Historic Fund.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/brooklyn-arcadia-a-conversation-with-author-andrew-garn/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T210000
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SUMMARY:Victorian Carol Sing-Along Holiday Concert & Reception
DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with Friends of the Erben Organ at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral \n261 Mott Street\, New York\, NY \nWednesday\, December 6th \n7:00 pm–9:00 pm \nWe are pleased to join the Friends of the Erben Organ for a merry evening of Victorian-era carols\, seasonal music\, and readings. Afterward\, enjoy festive treats and the chance to see and hear the cathedral’s two historic pipe organs—including the 1868 Erben pipe organ—up close with Jared Lamenzo\, Director of Music. \nTickets Available Here\nVSNY Members: use code VICTORIAN for 50% off. All donations on top of ticket price will be matched with the Friends of the Erben Organ’s $25K Fall Matching Grant. \nNineteenth-century attire is encouraged! \n(Image: “Christmas Eve” painting by J. Hoover & Son\, 1878) \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/victorian-carol-sing-along-holiday-concert-reception/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T190000
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SUMMARY:Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity at the New York Public Library
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy an Exclusive Curator-Led Tour of Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity\nWachenheim Gallery\, New York Public Library \nStephen A. Schwarzman Building \n476 Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street \nNew York\, NY 10018 \nTickets ($25/$20 for Members) Here!\nToday we live in a world of celebrity culture\, but celebrity became an international industry in the late 19th century\, and the English artist and author Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was at the center of it. From the 1890s through the 1920s\, to be a celebrity meant the hope—and fear—of turning up in a drawing or a parody by “Max\,” as he was known in England and the United States. His brilliant skewering of famous people in his visual caricatures and of their writing styles in his satirical works made him a celebrity himself. This was an identity he enjoyed at first\, but later shrank from. In essays and fiction\, he explored the price of achieving and maintaining celebrity status in human terms in ways that still resonate with us. \nThis exhibition\, the first on Beerbohm in New York for half a century and featuring rarely seen items from the New York Public Library’s own collection as well as loans from private and institutional collections\, maps the career of Beerbohm in relationship to the idea of celebrity\, following him from his early days in the decadent circles of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley through his late career as a radio performer on BBC broadcasts during World War II. Along the way\, he knew\, drew\, and wrote about many other celebrities\, from Henry James to Virginia Woolf\, George Bernard Shaw\, and members of the British royal family. \n \n📷 Dante Gabriel Rossetti in His Back Garden\, illustration from The Poet’s Corner\, 1904\n📷 Self-caricature by Max Beerbohm\, c. 1893 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/max-beerbohm-the-price-of-celebrity-at-the-new-york-public-library/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T193000
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SUMMARY:Walter Scott Lenox and American Belleek
DESCRIPTION:Online Talk! Curator Brian Gallagher Discusses the Exhibition Walter Scott Lenox and American Belleek at The Mint Museum \nTickets ($10/$5 for Members) Available Here\nBrian Gallagher\, Senior Curator of Decorative Arts at The Mint Museum\, Charlotte\, North Carolina\, will present noteworthy examples of art porcelain produced in late nineteenth-century Trenton\, New Jersey\, at the three factories—Ott & Brewer\, Willets Manufacturing Company\, and Ceramic Art Company—where Walter Scott Lenox (1859–1920) served sequentially as artistic director. Lenox was instrumental in developing a version of the eggshell-thin\, ivory-colored porcelain first manufactured in the village of Belleek in County Fermanagh\, Northern Ireland\, but that achieved new aesthetic heights in the United States thanks to his vision and artistic talent. This subject is the focus of Gallagher’s exhibition\, Walter Scott Lenox and American Belleek\, on view at the Mint Museum until January 21\, 2024. \nBrian Gallagher joined the Mint Museum’s curatorial staff in 2007\, and before then he was an assistant curator in the Department of European Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. He has organized numerous exhibitions during his museum career on a variety of decorative arts topics. Recent projects include Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries (2020) and Portals to the Past: British Ceramics 1675–1825 (2016). He co-authored the catalogues associated with these two projects and was the sole author for Walter Scott Lenox and American Belleek (2023). Gallagher has an M.A. and an M.Phil. from the Bard Graduate Center\, New York\, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Drexel University\, Philadelphia. \n \n📷 Ceramic Art Company / Lenox\, Incorporated\, manufacturer; Depasse Manufacturing Company\, silver mounts and overlay; Decanter Set\, circa 1905-15\, Belleek porcelain\, glazed\, decanter 6 11/16 x 6 5/8 in. Collection of Bob Cunningham. \n📷 Ott and Brewer; Bowl\, 1882-90\, Belleek Porcelain with ivory glaze\, polychrome enamels\, and gilt decoration\, 7 ¾ x 8 ¼ x 6 ½ in. Collection of Bob Cunningham.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/walter-scott-lenox-and-american-belleek/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T193000
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SUMMARY:Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel
DESCRIPTION:Online Talk! Livia Arndal Woods Discusses Pregnancy in British Literature \nTickets ($10/$5 Members) Here\nLivia Arndal Woods will discuss her recent book\, Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel\, which argues that we need to be attuned to speculation and our own experiences of embodiment to read depictions of women’s reproductive capacity in nineteenth-century British literature as anything other than punishment. Victorian novels tend to avoid the direct representation of pregnancy except in cases of maternal immorality or immodesty. Without active resistance\, we inherit and repeat pregnancy plots in which reproductive bodies are always already guilty. \nDr. Livia Arndal Woods (she/her/hers) earned a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center and is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Her research focuses on British Victorian literature and culture\, women’s and gender studies\, and the medical humanities. \n \n📷 Illustration of a pregnant woman\, with her abdomen sectioned to show the foetus\, during the first (left)\, second (centre) and third (right) trimesters (top) and Illustration of a pregnant woman in repose (bottom). From An Improved System of Midwifery\, by Wooster Beach (1794-1868)\, published in 1851.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/pregnancy-in-the-victorian-novel/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240222T200000
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SUMMARY:La Amistad Mutiny and Long Island
DESCRIPTION:In-Person Talk! Historian Mia Certic Discusses How America’s First Civil Rights Case Emerged in Montauk\nBloomingdale School of Music \n323 West 108th Street \nNew York\, NY 10025 \nTickets ($10/$5 Members) Here!!\n\n\nIn 1839\, eight weeks after their dramatic mutiny\, 49 trafficked African men aboard the schooner La Amistad dropped anchor off the coast of Montauk\, desperate for fresh water and food. Instead of being helped\, their ship was seized and they were transported to Connecticut as captives. These events would lead to an international diplomatic crisis and a series of momentous legal battles that brought into question basic tenets of American democracy and foreshadowed the Civil War. Mia Certic\, executive director of the Montauk Historical Society\, will talk about the Amistad case and how what happened on Long Island set the stage for what was to come. \n \n📷 La Amistad anchored off Culloden Point in Montauk. Unknown artist. 1840. Watercolor. New Haven Museum. \n📷 William H. Townsend. Amistad Survivors (l-r: Fuli\, Marqu\, and Pona). 1839. Library of Congress. \n\n\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/la-amistad-mutiny-and-long-island/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T193000
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SUMMARY:The Peculiar Story of Doesticks and the Fortunetellers
DESCRIPTION:In-Person Talk!\nThe Peculiar Story of Doesticks and the Fortunetellers \n  \nRockwell Gallery at The Salmagundi Club \n47 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street) \nNew York\, NY 10003 \nFree Tickets Here!!\nWho knows what the future holds? Well\, on March 7\, we’re co-sponsoring a talk about 19th-century NYC fortune tellers with The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation\, the Salmagundi Club Library Committee\, and Merchant’s House Museum! Author Marie Carter will introduce us to Q. K. Philander Doesticks\, P.B. (real name\, Mortimer Thomson)\, a reporter for The New-York Tribune who in 1857 investigated the fortune tellers of the Lower East Side and eventually wrote a book about them\, The Witches of New York. When his articles were published in book form in 1858\, they catalyzed a series of arrests that both scandalized and delighted the public. But Mortimer was guarding some secrets of his own\, and in many ways\, his own life paralleled the lives of the women he visited and vilified. This talk\, in celebration of the release of Carter’s book Mortimer & the Witches: A Nineteenth-Century History of Fortune Telling (Fordham University Press)\, leads us into the world of Doesticks\, who hobnobbed with literary luminaries of his time like Mark Twain\, Walt Whitman\, the wildly popular columnist Fanny Fern\, and biographer James Parton. The talk will also examine some of the stories of those supposedly “evil” fortune tellers who showed up in the press in surprising ways. \nMarie Carter is an New York City-based writer and tour guide who hails from Scotland. She works with Boroughs of the Dead\, an NYC walking tour company that specializes in macabre\, strange\, and ghostly histories. Her most recent book\, Mortimer and the Witches\, will be published by Fordham University Press in March 2024. She is also the author of The Trapeze Diaries and Holly’s Hurricane\, a historical novel set in the future. \n \n📷 Madame Morrow’s Fortune Telling Cards\, 1886\, New-York Historical Society\, The Liman Collection. \n📷 Courtesy of Marie Carter and Fordham University Press.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/doesticks-and-the-fortunetellers/
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SUMMARY:Call for Proposals: Emerging Scholars 2024 Program
DESCRIPTION:Submissions Deadline EXTENDED: March 11th\, 2024 \nProgram Takes Place May 7th\, 2024 in NYC\, 6:00–7:30 pm \nThe Metropolitan (New York) Chapter of the Victorian Society invites university student historians and recent graduates to submit proposals by Monday\, March 11\, 2024\, for its annual Emerging Scholars evening program on May 7\, 2024. The nonprofit VSNY (vicsocny.org)\, 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\, music\, fashion\, and food. Topics for recent event winners have included panoramic battlefield paintings\, servants’ uniforms\, and Black newspaperwomen. \nFor the May 7 program (6–7:30 pm)\, VSNY will invite three current students or recent grads to present their work at Greenwich Village’s Jefferson Market Library\, in a 20-minute presentation and then field questions. Send 200-word proposals (preference given to American/New York topics) and CVs by March 8 to info@vicsocny.org. Speakers will receive a free 1-year VSNY membership ($40 value). \n📷 – Past Victorian Society New York Emerging Scholar topics have included Gilded Age servants’ uniforms. (My Lady and My Lady’s Maid\, 1871. Library of Congress.)
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/call-for-proposals-emerging-scholars-2024-program/
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SUMMARY:Titanic Discoveries: A Niece's Journey
DESCRIPTION:In-Person Talk! The Brothers Peracchio Aboard the RMS Titanic\n  \nJefferson Market Library \n425 6th Avenue \nNew York\, NY 10011 \nFree Tickets Here!!\nOn April 14\, 1912\, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:35 pm; within a few hours\, it sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland\, taking 1\,496 lives. Two of the victims were author Angelica Harris’ uncles-in-law\, Alberto and Sebastiano Peracchio\, who were waiters in one of the ship’s restaurants. Harris will lecture on her recent book\, Titanic: The Brothers Peracchio–Two Boys and a Dream\, the result of 40 years of research and a labor of love. She will discuss her archival discoveries and far-flung travels and will report on a recently uncovered secret: a twin of the Titanic’s Steinway piano\, which traveled on a sister ship\, the Olympic. Long believed lost after the Olympic’s retirement in 1935\, the Steinway surfaced last year at a piano store in Britain. Lecturing with Ms. Harris will be Christopher Mulholland\, an expert on the Olympic and Titanic who is a cofounder of the RMS Olympic Steinway Association\, which plans to save the piano. \nAngela-Filomena LoCascio\, aka Angelica Harris\, is a recent honors graduate of Fordham University\, with a bachelor’s degree in social justice\, feminist theory\, and writing for publication and journalism. In addition to writing Titanic: The Brothers Peracchio: Two Boys and a Dream\, she serves on the boards of three organizations dedicated to the legacy of the Titanic\, including the Friends of the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse. Scholar Christopher Mulholland has researched his family’s service on ocean liners and created hand-drawn blueprints for the Olympic and Titanic. \n  \n📷 Alberto and Sebastiano Peracchio\, c. 1912. Angelica Harris. \n📷 The Titanic\, 1911. Library of Congress. \n📷 The Veranda Cafe and Palm Court of the Titanic\, 1912. Library of Congress. \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/titanic-discoveries-a-nieces-journey/
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SUMMARY:Finding Prospect Park
DESCRIPTION:Finding Prospect Park: A Historic Walking Tour\nProspect Park \nBrooklyn\, New York \nTickets Here ($20/$15)\nJoin the Victorian Society of New York and Historic Districts Council for a tour through the northern half of Prospect Park\, Olmsted and Vaux’s masterpiece. A brief introduction to the park’s history and design will be provided while will investigate lost rustic and picturesque shelters and bridges\, the marvelous “electric fountain\,” the mysterious “Culvert Arch\,” the park’s “Dairy\,” the “braiding of the ways\,” the still present but deteriorating Litchfield Villa\, the circular yacht\, and other sites and features of the original park. The main focus of the tour will be discovering lost features and why their loss matters. Some of these features are gone without a trace; others remain only as archaeological remnants. Some are largely intact but have been “lost” to the public for other reasons. \nYour tour guide is VSNY’s own Jeremy Woodoff\, who chairs our Preservation Committee. Jeremy is a city planner and historic preservationist currently serving on the Advisory Board of the Historic Districts Council as well as the VSNY Board\, both of which are sponsoring this tour. During his 20-year employment at the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission\, Jeremy was responsible for setting up the Commission’s review procedures for work in scenic landmarks like Prospect Park and for reviewing all work proposed for the park by the Parks Department and the Prospect Park Alliance. \nFor those who register\, a QR code will be available that will allow you to download a series of historic images to use on your cell phone or tablet during the tour. The tour leader will have a set of images that can be viewed as well. \n \n \n📷 Prospect Park. Photo by Elizabeth Keegin Colley. Courtesy of Prospect Park Alliance. \n📷 Rustic Bench and Drinking Fountain\, the Midwood near the Dairy\, Prospect Park Concerts Programme Brochure\, 1897 season. Center for Brooklyn History. \n📷 Jeremy Woodoff. Courtesy of Jeremy Woodoff.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/finding-prospect-park/
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SUMMARY:Emerging Victorian Scholars Night
DESCRIPTION:Emerging Scholars:\nGilded Age Escalators\, Windows\, and Women on the Rise\nThe Center at West Park \n165 West 86th Street \nNew York\, NY 10024 \nTickets Here!!\nThe Victorian Society New York’s 2024 Emerging Scholars winners will shed light on little-known yet influential aspects of Gilded Age culture\, activism\, and architecture. Sophia Kamps\, recent graduate of Queen’s University in Ontario\, will report on surveying 1\,200 Gilded Age stained-glass windows at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Diane Dias De Fazio\, a graduate student at Kent State University\, will lecture on how the forgotten c. 1900 inventors of the ubiquitous\, oft-unheralded escalator changed the way people experienced and used department stores and other public spaces. Deena Ecker\, a student at the CUNY Graduate Center\, will look at late Victorian streetscapes and culture (popular\, consumer\, and sexual) through the lens of prostitution. How did these maligned women maintain some agency? Amanda Westbrook Brennan\, a CUNY Graduate Center student\, will analyze Black women activists\, writers\, and club women who elevated communities while defying stereotypes. \n  \n \n📷 “Inclined Elevator” at Coney Island\, Street Railway Review\, 1896. \n📷 Gordon Ross\, “The Dance of Death\,” Puck\, v. 71\, no. 1822 (1912 January 31)\, centerfold. 1912. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Library of Congress\, Prints and Photographs Division. \n📷 C.M. Bell\, Mrs. A.J. Cooper\, 1901. Photograph from a glass plate negative. Library of Congress\, C.M. Bell Studio Collection\, Prints and Photographs Division. \n📷 Elizabeth Hunter. Sophia Kamps with a Mausoleum’s Religious Window\, 2023.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-victorian-scholars-night/
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