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The Alice Austen House needs you!

Alice Austen, one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers broke away from the constraints of the Victorian era to create her own life. Her home, located in Staten Island, now serves as a museum dedicated to her work and life. The Alice Austen House Museum is up for the 2012 Partners in Preservation grant — a grant that will allow the museum to help preserve a very important part of the history of photography.

Every vote counts. Pictured above, Alfred Eisenstaedt pushes photographer Alice Austen in a wheelchair, Staten Island, New York, in 1951, one year before Austen died.

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Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, Vt. by Boston Public Library on Flickr.

Tibor Gergely, A Year In The City. Simon & Shuster, 1948.

More about Gergely HERE

Jello handbag made in Vermont by Flashbags for Pine Street Art Works.

Detail, Bye Baby Bunting, triptych, double sided poster by ML Spoor.

Mary Louise Spoor (1887-1985) worked for a brief shining moment from Chicago, publishing illustrations for Rand McNally and Lyons & Carnihan. Mollie, as she was called, went to The Art Institute and shared a studio with Gertrude Spaller, another young illustrator. Together they illustrated two children’s readers. The Easy Road To Reading Primer editions one and two.

In 1917 she published a set of three schoolroom posters of nursery rhymes with Congdon Publishers in Chicago.

By 1917 she was married and pregnant with her first child. She moved to Massachussets to raise her family. And that ended her professional career. She continued painting and drawing private works that would end up in family collections but those works have not yet entered into public circulation.

Starry Night - Sold by ruralpearl on Flickr.

Starry Night. Papercut by RuralPearl, Angie Pickman.