Evening Dress
Callot Soeurs, 1925
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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“Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993)[2] was an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. Music critic Alan Blyth said ‘Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty,’…
In the late 1930s, Anderson gave about 70 recitals a year in the United States. Although by now quite famous, her stature did not completely end the prejudice she confronted as a young black singer touring the United States. She was still denied rooms in certain American hotels and was not allowed to eat in certain American restaurants. Interestingly, because of this discrimination, Albert Einstein, a champion of racial tolerance, hosted Anderson on many occasions, the first being in 1937 when she was denied a hotel before performing at Princeton University. She last stayed with him months before he died in 1955.
In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused permission for Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in their Constitution Hall. At the time, Washington, D.C., was a segregated city and black patrons were upset that they had to sit at the back of Constitution Hall. The District of Columbia Board of Education also declined a request to use the auditorium of a white public high school. As a result of the ensuing furor, thousands of DAR members, including First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned.
The Roosevelts, with Walter White, then-executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Anderson’s manager, impresario Sol Hurok, persuaded Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to arrange an open air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The concert was performed on Easter Sunday, April 9…They began the performance with a dignified and stirring rendition of ‘My Country, ‘Tis of Thee’. The event attracted a crowd of more than 75,000 of all colors and was a sensation with a national radio audience of millions.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m272jrgNxS1qbfo0do1_500.jpg)
“Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993)[2] was an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. Music critic Alan Blyth said ‘Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty,’…
In the late 1930s, Anderson gave about 70 recitals a year in the United States. Although by now quite famous, her stature did not completely end the prejudice she confronted as a young black singer touring the United States. She was still denied rooms in certain American hotels and was not allowed to eat in certain American restaurants. Interestingly, because of this discrimination, Albert Einstein, a champion of racial tolerance, hosted Anderson on many occasions, the first being in 1937 when she was denied a hotel before performing at Princeton University. She last stayed with him months before he died in 1955.
In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused permission for Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in their Constitution Hall. At the time, Washington, D.C., was a segregated city and black patrons were upset that they had to sit at the back of Constitution Hall. The District of Columbia Board of Education also declined a request to use the auditorium of a white public high school. As a result of the ensuing furor, thousands of DAR members, including First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, resigned.
The Roosevelts, with Walter White, then-executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Anderson’s manager, impresario Sol Hurok, persuaded Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to arrange an open air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The concert was performed on Easter Sunday, April 9…They began the performance with a dignified and stirring rendition of ‘My Country, ‘Tis of Thee’. The event attracted a crowd of more than 75,000 of all colors and was a sensation with a national radio audience of millions.”
Ball Gown
Charles Fredrick Worth, 1860
The Museum of the City of New York
Evening Dress
Charles Fredrick Worth, 1885-1886
The Museum of the City of New York
Reception Dress
Charles Fredrick Worth, 1883
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mantle
Charles Fredrick Worth, 1888
The Museum of the City of New York
Tea Gown
Charles Fredrick Worth, 1890-1895
The Royal Ontario Museum
Weapon of Mass Instruction
Built from a welded frame atop a 1979 Ford Falcon, Raul Lemesoff drives around the streets of Buenos Aires distributing free books to anybody who wants to be assaulted with some serious learnin’.
(via: make / laughingsquid)
I call to you, O Dagda, mighty one, kindly one,
generous one, great god of many talents,
father of children good-hearted and strong,
master of treasures beyond telling, your cauldron
ever full, your trees ever heavy with sweet fruit.
Upon your oaken harp you play to bring the land
to new-grown life or set it to a winter’s sleep;
in hand you wield the hefty club with which you take
or give back lives. O Dagda, god of many names,
granter of many gifts, holder of knowledge
and bearer of wisdom, worker of wonders,
you shield us in safety, you bless us with bounty.
Evening Dress
Jean-Philippe Worth, 1902
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
