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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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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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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: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:20230412T144500
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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:20230401T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230401T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T203000
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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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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: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;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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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:20230216T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T180000
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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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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:20230104T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230104T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101300
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101300
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101301
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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:20220926T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220623T203000
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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:20220516T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220516T200000
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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:20220509T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220509T200000
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CREATED:20220404T112708Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T193000
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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:20220413T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T200000
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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:20220328T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220328T190000
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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;VALUE=DATE:20220314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220315
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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:20220228T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220228T193000
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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;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T200000
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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;VALUE=DATE:20220214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220215
DTSTAMP:20260416T101301
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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:20220120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T193000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101301
CREATED:20220102T234059Z
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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;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T200000
DTSTAMP:20260416T101301
CREATED:20211102T023739Z
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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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