# Visual Culture and the Black Experience in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Jessica Larson was among the Swann Fellow awardees selected in 2022 to speak at the Library. Her project, "Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857-1914," examines the architecture of charitable and reform institutions built to serve Black aid recipients in Manhattan between the Civil War and World War I. Her interdisciplinary project involves the application of visual culture and the fine arts to reckon with archival gaps and to reconstruct the experiences of everyday life in nineteenth-century Manhattan. The Swann Foundation Fellowship, administered by the Library since 1999, features academics who use the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division, as well as other research areas of the Library to further their research related to caricature and cartoon.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2023
- By: Library Of Congress. Prints And Photographs Division
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661151/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2025661151?play=1)