Authors

Daniela M. Addamo

Daniela M. Addamo is the Curator for Queens Historical Society and an Art Historian from Queens, New York. She has worked at various museum curatorial and collections departments in New York including Kingsland Homestead located at The Queens Historical Society, The Morgan Library and Museum Modern Drawings Department, the Hudson River Museum, King Manor Museum, and The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology.

She received her Associates in Fine Arts and Bachelor’s of Science degree in Art History and Museum professions from the Fashion institute of technology and her Master’s of Arts degree in Art History and Museum Studies from City College of New York CUNY. Specializing in 19th century art, Daniela focuses mostly on Victorian British and American paintings and photography. Some other topics and time periods she explores are material culture and decorative arts and a range between the 18th century to contemporary. Many of the antiques featured in Daniela’s article belong to her personal collection or otherwise credited to it’s source.

Hannah Winiker

Hannah Winiker is the Collection Manager/Curator at Bedford Historical Society, in Bedford, New York, as well as the Curatorial Assistant at King Manor Museum in Jamaica, Queens. For both institutions she develops exhibitions throughout the year, as well as managing the collections . She has always been obsessed with historic houses and all things Victorian starting from her first visits to Long Island’s Old Bethpage Restoration on field trips in grade school.

Hannah is a graduate of the joint Cooper Hewitt/Parsons School of Design, History of Design and Curatorial Studies Masters program in New York City. There she specialized in nineteenth-century British decorative arts and material culture, with a minor study in twentieth-century popular culture. She is a Lee B. Anderson Fund scholarship recipient (2016), Historic New Orleans Collection Summer Fellow (2017), and a Victorian Society London Summer School scholarship recipient (2018).

Sharon Twickler