Caged: New Haven’s Avian Commerce
by Karina Encarnación and Duy Nguyen
Month: January 2025
Death and Ceremony in New Haven
Allie Douma and Hadley Tallackson Gravestones from the New Haven Green: Map of New Haven Green and its uses in 1775. See building 5: “Burying Ground.” Buildings, grounds and landmarks in New Haven photographs. 100s. Box 1. Folder 6. Yale University Archives, Pictorial Records and Collections. 22 Oct 2024. Rubbings of Grove Street Cemetery created by Robert Greenberg in 2012 and displayed in Lost in New Haven Museum. Photo…
Beer, Beverages and Prohibition: The Life and Death of Regional Bottlers
Benjamin Johnson The anchor object I chose is a collection of historic paraphernalia from Hulls Brewing Company. Specifically, I focused on the 3 yellow Hulls cans in the zoomed-in image. Each can present a different type of beer. These are export, cream ale, and Bock beer. Narrative 1 At Lost in New Haven, a collection of paraphernalia from the Hulls Brewery is on display. I was immediately drawn…
Bagel Time: Nostalgia, Narrative and Idealism in New Haven’s Historical Branding
Natalie Fox and Calder Birdsey Anchor Object Our anchor object (Fig. 1) is an image from a 1977 advertising booklet produced by Lender and Sons for its 50th anniversary. Lender and Sons was a prominent New Haven bakery that eventually grew into a national business before being acquired by Kraft Foods in 1984. The image, reproduced at Lost in New Haven, shows a quaint yet bustling New Haven street in…
Jan. 29
Due: Artifact Study: Three narratives for your chosen objects. Intro: Assignment 2, Building Study, intro New Haven Building Archive Readings: Zoya Brumberg-Kraus, “A Bridge at Powell and Clay: Designing Chinese American Community in an Francisco’s Chinatown YWCA,” Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Volume 31, No. 1, Spring 2024. Jessica Larson, “The Black Built Environment of Benevolence in New York’s Tenderloin District: Comparative Architectural Approaches to Race,…
Making Time
Lost in New Haven holds an extensive collection of clocks, watches and gadgets produced by the New Haven Clock Company across its over one-hundred-year existence. The clock company is a fascinating case study of urban history as the very process of industrialization and its enormous social implications in many ways drove the demand for its product. As industrial capitalism revolutionized labor, it became increasingly important for the common person to…
Lost in New Haven
Materials at Lost in New Haven relating directly to postwar Urban Renewal include Redevelopment Agency brochures describing and promoting specific projects, like the Church Street Redevelopment and the “Progress Pavilion,” a temporary exhibit housed in a concrete-block structure at the corner of Church and Chapel Streets that displayed upcoming plans and designs. The Property Acquisition cards are interesting; with photo and notecard, they show the granular scale of condemnation and…
Decorated Tenement
Domino / Test Post
Jan 22
Readings: Gabrielle Brainard, “Party Walls: Understanding Urban Change Through a Block of New Haven Row Houses, 1870-1979,” Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, 2001. Douglas Rae, City: Urbanism and its End (Yale Univ. Press, 2004), as much as you can. Paul Groth, “ ‘Marketplace’ Vernacular Design: The Case of Downtown Rooming Houses,” Perspectrives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 2 (1986): 179-191. J.B. Jackson, “Stranger’s Path” Landscape Journal. Suggested: Paul…