Thomas Edison was first experimenting with film and the "moving picture" in the early 1900's. In 1903 he made at least two (very) short films made - one of a fish market on the Lower East Side and one of the pushcart vendors.
How amazing to be able to see into a world that existed over a hundred years ago! [I wonder if anyone will be that interested about us is one hundred years....]
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World Premiere: June 5-21, 2009 (NYC)
A research blog documenting the investigative work for a new full-length play.
Give Us Bread
World Premiere: June 5-21, 2009 (NYC)
About This Blog
This blog is documenting the research process for a new play, to be produced by The Anthropologists June 5-21, 2009 at the Milagro Theater in NYC's Lower East Side. Tickets can be purchased here.
In May 2008, director and playwright Melissa Fendell was listening to author Raj Patel being interviewed on NPR about his new book, Stuffed and Starved. When asked about examples of social actions related to price-gouging, he mentioned the 1917 food riots led by women in New York City.
Armed with only this piece of information we have set off on a journey to explore this little-known but important moment in New York history, while simulaneously using it as a lens to explore current social, political and economic conditions.
Posts
- Rosie's Mom by Carrie Brown
- Publications Disseminated by the U.S. Government During the Early 20th Century for the American Housewife: A Selected Bibliography (Master's paper), by Antoinette W. Satterfield
- Rebels: Into Anarchy -- And Out Again, by Marie Ganz
- How We Lived, Irving Howe and Kenneth Libo
- A Thousand Years Over A Hot Stove, Laura Schenone
- War, Prosperity and Hunger: The New York Food Riots, William Frieburger
- Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars, Elizabeth Ewen
- Forward, The Jewish Daily - Yiddish Archives
- "Housewives, Socialists and the Politics of Food: The 1917 New York Cost-of-Living Protests" by Dana Frank, published in Feminist Studies, 1985
- Not So Long Ago: A Recollection, Emma Beckman
- The New York Chronology, James Trager
Web Resources Consulted
Labels
- 1917 (1)
- 20th Century (1)
- Abrons Arts Center (1)
- All-Of-A-Kind Family (1)
- Animal Vegetable Miracle (1)
- Antoinette W. Satterfield (1)
- Booker T. Washington (1)
- boycott (1)
- Bronx (1)
- Brownsville (2)
- butcher (1)
- Carrie Brown (1)
- Center for Jewish History (1)
- Christopher Columbus (1)
- City Hall (1)
- class (1)
- corporations (1)
- cost of living (1)
- Country of Origin (1)
- CSA (1)
- Delancey (1)
- Don Lee (1)
- Dr. Haven Emerson (1)
- East Broadway (1)
- Edwardian Promenade (1)
- Elizabeth Ewen (1)
- Emma Beckman (1)
- Essex St. (1)
- Feminist Studies (1)
- fish market (1)
- Flickr (1)
- Forward (2)
- gender (1)
- google maps (1)
- Grand St. (1)
- Guss Pickles (1)
- Hebrew Technical School for Girls (1)
- Hester Street (2)
- housekeeping (1)
- housewife (1)
- Housewives (1)
- immigrant (4)
- immigration (2)
- Jacob Riis (1)
- Kosher (1)
- language (1)
- Laura Schenone (1)
- legislation (1)
- lobster palaces (1)
- Lower East Side (11)
- Mabel Hyde Kittredge (2)
- Marie Ganz (5)
- milk (1)
- Mrs. Ida Harris (4)
- New Jersey (1)
- New York Historical Society (1)
- New York Public Library (1)
- New York Times (2)
- Orchard Street (3)
- Park Avenue Hotel (1)
- Passover (1)
- photographs (1)
- potatoes (3)
- public baths (1)
- pushcarts (2)
- Rebels (2)
- rice (3)
- Rivington Street (2)
- Rosie the Riveter (1)
- Rosie's Mom (1)
- Rutgers Square (1)
- Socialists (3)
- Stuffed and Starved (1)
- Suffolk (1)
- sweatshops (1)
- Sweet Marie (1)
- tenement (1)
- The Food Timeline (1)
- The Forward (2)
- The History Box (1)
- The Omnivore's Dilemma (1)
- The Tenement Museum (4)
- Thomas Edison (1)
- United Nations (1)
- US Library of Congress (2)
- vote (1)
- West Village (1)
- William Frieburger (2)
- Williamsburg (3)
- Women's Vigilance League (1)
- Wonkette (1)
- World War I (2)
- xenophobia (1)
- Yiddish (1)
- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (1)
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