For this exhibition, i worked three and a half years researching, finding all the objects. We have about 124 objects, 63 portraits. And incure yating the exhibition, i was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it. What does it do and what doesnt it do . And why 1965, the Voting Rights act, was considered a part two of the 19th amendment. So if youll follow me, i will show you a few of the objects that tell this history. So lets go. We are in the first gallery of the exhibition. I mentioned we have portraits that drive the narrative. I also wanted to include pieces of art, like the one we are looking at. Its by a female artist. Lily martin spencer. He was active in the 1860s. I wanted to include this painting because it portrays young children, these four kids, one is a baby. But the three kids are celebrating. And the mother. Then you have a servan
For women, for this exhibition i worked about three and a half years researching and teaching myself the history and its finding the of which they are 63 portraits tony history of the 19th amendment and how women are moving to get this passed ratified but also asked questions about it what does it do in which is it not to law, and why it is considered law apart to serve it, so i will show you objects that tell this history. We are in the first gallery of the exhibition, i mentioned that we have portraits that drive the narrative but i also wanted to include in the exhibition pieces of our like the one we are looking at that is titled the more at home its by a female artist and she was active in the 18 sixties and i wanted to include this painting because it portrays Young Children and, so you have these for kids, once a baby, but the three kids are celebrating and the mother who is reading the New York Times and then you have a serve or a hope or who is cleaning the dishes and what i l
I am Kate Clarke Lemay and im the curator of votes for women. For this exhibition, i worked 3. 5 years researching, finding all the objects. About 124 objects, of which there are 63 portraits. I was hoping to commemorate the 19th amendment and tell the history of the 19th amendment and how women lobbied to get this amendment passed and ratified. But also ask questions about it. And why 1965, the Voting Rights act, is considered a part two of the 19th amendment. I will show you a few of the objects that tell this history. Lets go. We are in the first gallery of the exhibition. We are in the first gallery of the exhibition. I mentioned we have portraits that drive the narrative. I also wanted to include pieces of art, like the one we are looking at. Its by a female artist. She was active in the 1860s. I wanted to include this painting, because it portrays young children, these four kids, one is a baby. And the mother. She is reading the new york times. Then you have a servant or helper c
material culture of the civil war and most especially clothing and that s the subject of a book she s working on right now clothing in the american civil war era one. i m very much looking forward to reading when it comes out. and we re gonna get a taste for scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen real. quick all right. so when i began my current book project, i really wanted to understand. the human side of this war the intimacy with which it was both experienced and fought at a very material level at the level of material culture. how do people experience and negotiate the effects of war in their everyday lives how they wage war against one another both on and off the battlefield. what were the racial and gender dimensions of t
scholarship and this subject tonight with her lecture and title clothing people for war over to you. thank you. well, thank you so much paul for the invitation to participate and for that wonderful introduction so glad to be able to participate in the weekend. so, let me share my screen real. quick all right. so when i began my current book project, i really wanted to understand. the human side of this war the intimacy with which it was both experienced and fought at a very material level at the level of material culture. how do people experience and negotiate the effects of war in their everyday lives how they wage war against one another both on and off the battlefield. what were the racial and gender dimensions of that experience? how did women and men have to change in the midst of war? so as i began this research, i repeatedly encountered incidents related to clothing from the remark from the remarkable to the mundane. the more archival sources. i read the more clothing