Book ReviewThe Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru. By Jessaca B.  Leinaweaver. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes. By Krista E.  Van Vleet. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.La Chulla Vida: Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City. By Jason  Pribilsky. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007.

Signs ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 749-754
Author(s):  
Florence E. Babb
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Andes ◽  
The Family ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Syracuse University

‘It was Play or Starve’: John Banvard's Account of Early Showboats

1983 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
John Hanners
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The Family

John Banvard was a nineteenth-century adventurer, painter, poet, and theatre owner. Born in 1815 in New York City, he was forced to leave home at fifteen years of age when his father died and left the family penniless. He followed an older brother to Louisville, Kentucky, where he worked as an apothecary's helper and amateur artist. In 1833 he joined the Chapman Family as a scenic artist on the Floating Theatre, also known as Chapman's Ark, America's first showboat. This experience inspired Banvard to operate his own showboats and display his landscape paintings.

scholarly journals “A Girl of Business:” Calicia Allaire at the Howell Iron Works

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Mary Carroll Johansen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
York City ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Monmouth County ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Living

<p><em>Countering the prevailing trends of the antebellum era that separated home and office and thereby placed most women firmly outside the sphere of commerce, Calicia Tompkins Allaire, wife of ironworks owner James P. Allaire, served as her husband’s deputy, helping to oversee the Howell Iron Works and surrounding farms. While James lived mostly in New York City, Calicia helped to manage his businesses in Monmouth County in the 1840s and 1850s; to assess his employees’ character and actions; and to devise new ways for the struggling enterprises to earn money. Referring to his wife in a letter as “a girl of business,” James P. Allaire wrote that he counted on her to “have it done right.” The small scale of the Howell Works, its character as an iron plantation with the family living onsite, and James Allaire’s strained relationship with his adult children made Calicia Allaire the obvious choice to serve as his assistant.</em></p>

The Family and Business Life of Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Culminating in Fights over Her Person and Property

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-404
Author(s):  
Melanie Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Business World ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
Cultural Attitude ◽  
The Family ◽  
Manufacturing Company ◽  
Patent Medicine

This article examines the rise and fall of the Recamier Manufacturing Company, a cosmetics and patent medicine firm established in New York City by Harriet Hubbard Ayer in 1886. Ayer invested in an extensive advertising campaign where she fashioned herself as a tragic figure forced into the business world. When faced with challenges to her “person and property,” she relied on a network of business and professional allies to protect her interests. An examination of Ayer's business career reveals how consumers responded to an emerging cultural attitude that experts of all types should play a role in the development of beautiful faces and strong bodies. The narrative of her life reveals, among other things, the pervasiveness of the idea of a woman's respectability during the Gilded Age.

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