An Archivist's Tale
An Archivist's Tale
Geof Huth and Karen Trivette
Episode 121: Max Meyer: Recollections of a Foreign-Born Citizen (Lourdes Font)
1 hour 10 minutes Posted Oct 3, 2020 at 4:45 pm.
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Karen Jamison Trivette and guest host Alex Joseph interview fashion scholar Lourdes Font, professor of history of art at the Fashion Institute of Technology. They discuss the life and work of Max Meyer, a principal at Abraham Beller and Company, a New York City-based women's cloak and suit manufacturer, and examine how archival materials helped tell his story.