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 Challenge Dance

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
April F. Masten
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Working Class ◽  
York City ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
African Dance ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Blacks And Whites

This chapter examines the transnational origins of the challenge dance, a distinctly American tradition of brag dancing, and the ways in which Irish and African dance forms converged and collided in the taverns of New York City in the early nineteenth century. Part theater, part sport, challenge dances emerged in the antebellum era alongside boxing. Dance matches were the product of the intersecting diasporas and cultural exchange of Irish and African emigrants moving through the Atlantic world. The chapter first considers the compatibilities in African and Irish dance traditions before discussing the genealogy of challenge dancing. It then looks at challenge dance competitions held on streets and in taverns as part of white and blackface shows. It also describes a cultural space and moment in which working-class blacks and whites saw enough likeness in their dance traditions to frame a space of public, popular competition.

Designing and Installing a Retrofit Heated Green Roof Using Either Co-Gen Waste Hot Water or Municipal Waste Steam Heat as Energy Source

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dell ◽  
C. S. Wei ◽  
Raj Parikh ◽  
Runar Unnthorsson ◽  
William Foley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Green Roof ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Small Scale

Municipal District Heating Services and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems can produce waste heat in the form of steam condensate and hot water. The authors have developed a system to use this thermal pollution to heat the soil and growth medium of green roofs and outdoor gardens. The system enables plant life to survive colder climates and increases growth often in excess of 20% (Power2013-98172). In New York City test heated green roofs, the system can save vast amounts of normally required cooling water that is tapped from the overburdened municipal supply (IMECE2013-65200). Existing small scale green roofs in New York City and larger scale heated green roof retrofit in New York City is presented to indicate additional construction details, thermal considerations, and potential code compliance considerations.

‘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.

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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