{"id":713,"date":"2017-02-15T02:35:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=713"},"modified":"2017-02-15T02:35:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:35:11","slug":"archnet-exhibition-miss-kitty-lord-and-her-egyptian-tours-1908-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2017\/02\/15\/archnet-exhibition-miss-kitty-lord-and-her-egyptian-tours-1908-1912\/","title":{"rendered":"Archnet Exhibition: Miss Kitty Lord and Her Egyptian Tours, 1908-1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1246\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-714\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/02\/COL100815-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/02\/COL100815-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/02\/COL100815-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/02\/COL100815.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Now available on Archnet, an <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1246\">exhibition of postcards depicting Egypt<\/a> in the early 20th century.\u00a0 The exhibition features correspondence between the performer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archnet.org\/authorities\/7038\">Miss Kitty Lord<\/a> and admirers.\u00a0 Kitty Lord &#8220;graced international stages with her singing burlesque acts from 1894 to 1915,&#8221; according to exhibition curator <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/authorities\/7039\">Gwendolyn Colla\u00e7o<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.harvard.edu\/users\/gwendolyncollaco\">Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art and Architecture<\/a> at Harvard University. The postcards &#8220;date from her tours to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/authorities\/5328\">Cairo<\/a>, Egypt, where she performed at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Nouveaut\u00e9s du Caire (later called the Folies-Murger, 1911 onwards). Most are addressed either to her stage address or her personal residence in the rapidly developing theater district of Azbakiyya.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is divided into four parts:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1257\">Egyptian Urban Architecture at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1258\">Historical Tourism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1259\">Ethnographic Portraits<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1260\">Portraits of Kitty Lord<\/a> herself.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition on Archnet is the virtual version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.harvard.edu\/burlesque-artist-cairo-miss-kitty-lord-1908%E2%80%931912\">exhibition on display<\/a> at Harvard Fine Arts Library until February 28th.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now available on Archnet, an exhibition of postcards depicting Egypt in the early 20th century.\u00a0 The exhibition features correspondence between the performer Miss Kitty Lord and admirers.\u00a0 Kitty Lord &#8220;graced international stages with her singing burlesque acts from 1894 to 1915,&#8221; according to exhibition curator Gwendolyn Colla\u00e7o, Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University. The postcards &#8220;date from her tours to\u00a0Cairo, Egypt, where she performed at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Nouveaut\u00e9s du Caire (later called the Folies-Murger, 1911 onwards). Most are addressed either to her stage address or her personal residence in the rapidly developing theater district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[269],"tags":[348,376,383],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archnet-news","tag-collaborations","tag-egypt","tag-exhibits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}