Behind the Historic Image Archive: Women Who’ve Captured History, Part II
Countless women have made important contributions to the arts in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Many have made direct contributions of their art to Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive, documenting decades of architectural and cultural history. These women were not just artists or photographers, but often advocates or architects, and served in many other important roles in our community and beyond. This is part two of a three-part series — click here to read Part I.
Linda Yowell
Linda Yowell is a longtime Village Preservation Trustee and valued longtime co-chair of our Preservation Committee. As an award-winning architect and preservationist, Linda has worked on townhouses, apartment and loft buildings, and educational institutions throughout New York City, the Hudson Valley, and the Berkshires. She has also served as President of the Center for Architecture Foundation, Secretary of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and on the board of the Salisbury Association and the Historic House Trust of New York City.
Linda’s photographs document streets, buildings, and storefronts throughout Greenwich Village, with a particular emphasis on the West Village in the 1990s. Click here to access the full collection.
Myriam Cahn
Myriam was a long time Village resident and artist who donated a collection of her original watercolors to us. She was a special education teacher at Lennox Hill Hospital for many years before retiring to fulfill her calling as an artist. She assumed the name Myriam to avoid conflict with another acclaimed artist, Miriam Cahn.
The art in this collection was created between 1980 and 2011. Click here to access the full collection.
Beverly Wallace
This collection was donated by Beverly Wallace in memory of her husband, Sonny, who died from lung cancer in 2004. Many of these photos were taken by Sonny and other workers during the cleanup of Ground Zero following the attacks of 9/11.
Click here to access the full collection.
Julie Rinaldini
This collection highlights Joe’s Friendly Service gas station, which was located on the corner of Commerce Street and Seventh Avenue South for decades. Although we have no definitive opening or closing date, a gas station was likely on this site from the 1930s through the 1980s.
Click here to see the collection and click here here to read more about this site.
Meredith Marciano
Meredith Jacobson Marciano grew up in Boston but visited NYC frequently between 1976 and 1986 before moving to the East Village in the fall of 1986. She spent her time venturing into neighborhoods in all the boroughs just to see what they were like, walk for miles, buy tastes from the local mom and pop bakeries, and take pictures of any “cool old places” she liked.
See Part I of her collection here and Part II of her collection here.
Click here to access all collections. Click here to read more about Women’s History Month. And if you’re interested in donating your images to our historic image archive, email us at info@villagepreservation.org.