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much towardsour success.Badly needed and openvolunt eer 'ii: ta.. j.,.| :..i positionsinclude: ii; .i, Office Managers - typing,filing, bookkeeping, etc. Museum Guides - help the public to understandour county'sheritage. Gift Shop Managers - inventorg, sales,buying for the Victorian Emporium. Proceedshelp support the museum's operation. Inventory and Cataloging - learnabout our collectionsas you help us to givethem the best possiblecare. Storage Organizers - a very responsibleposition for someone who likes to get his/her hands dirty. Put our collectionsin the best possiblecondition. Museum Maintenance - dusting, sweeping,polishing. Keepingthe museumobjects sparkling will help to make the visitor'sexperience pleasant and keep our treasuresin good condition. Edisonmachines restored If you are interestedin becominga volunteer, pleasecall The PassaicCounty HistoricalSociety's collection of Mrs. Annita Zalenskiat 595-7684or 88I-276I. Edison phonographswere recently restored to working order by a grant from the Charles Edison Fund. The phonographs, includinga Gem,Home, and early (1870's) tinfoil machine, are now on displayat the LambertCastle Museum where they can be heard as well as seen.Several of the machinesbear tags identifuingthem as sold by JamesK. O'Dea,dD entrepreneur who had phonographshops in Paterson,Passaic, and Middletown, N.Y. during the 1980'sand early 1900's. Photoghraphsof O'Dea'sPaterson store are alsoon exhibit. On loan from Mr. Charles Hummel, the Edison Fund's restorer, is the Nipper Dog, symbol of the Victor Talking MachineCo. (now RCA Mctor). The Nipper Dog, who sits almostthree f,eethigh with ear cockedtowards the voiceof his master,sat in the windowof a Market Street,Paterson, record shop for many years.The exhibit will run through the end of Februaryand can be seenWednesday through Sunday from 1:00to 4:00P.M. 50th anniv ersory book plonned A fiftieth birthdayis an idealtime to take a freshlook at the past and that is what is being done for the 50th Aniversary Book. New researchon the Lambertfamily and the castlehas beenundertaken by Dr. FlaviaAlaya, former presidentof the Society with the assistanceof Annita Zalenskiand Jessica Peters,Society genealogists and Ed Smyk, County Historian. This research will be accompaniedby John Reid's original photos of the castle.The anniversarybook will be a valuable andcomprehensive source of informationfor thoseinterested in knowingmore about LambertCastle. It will be publishedin Fred DilzeII, classicolquitafist, performing d theAnnual Members the Springin time for the GalaSoiree and afterwards will be on ChristmasPorty. saleat the Castle. Water damagespainting

During the summer a fine lTth or 18th Century painting of a classical subject possibly Diana the Huntress was delivered to our emergency room here at van Cline and Davenport, Ltd. You may recall the painting and its companion on the ceiling of the old entrance hall to the Castle. Rain from the leaky roof finally pentrated to the ceiling above the pictures and gave them quite a soaking. Upon arrival we set about applying the mulberry tissue "band-aids" you see in the photo to the areas where water had q loosened the paint to such an extent that it was about to fall away. Then we proceeded with tests to prepare for cleaning the more secure areas of the piece. We found that it had been cleaned many years ago and that three layers of varnish had been applied since then. We are now in the' midst of the cleaning procedure, have ordered extra heavy raw linen with which to reline the piece and an expansion bolt stretcher for the final mounting. ",Y::zl:x';:1,r";:it::;';::::t::i::ri".:NorewhiteAfter cleaning, the painting will be removed from the old Nofe; On July 21, three paintingshung in the old entrance stretch er, permeated with a wax resin formula and the new hall at the Lambert Castle Museum were woter damaged canvas stretched on a larger stretcher and that bound to the during o torrential downpour. Two uery large poinfings, back of the old canvas for strength. The picture will then get its possibly17th or 18thCentury Englishmanor paintings,were final cleaning,the missing areas filled and color matched to the once part of Catholina lambert's art collection and were surrounding original paint. It will be stretched on the new mounted in the ceilingwhere Lambert hod displayed them. expansion bolt stretcher and get about 20 ultra-thin layers of One of the pidtritingsuos seiuerelydamaged ond is nour being varnish. restoredbyuan Cline&Davenport, Ltd., FranklinLakes,N.J. The process of restoring the painting should take approxi- The other two susfoined only minor damage. They are: mately one year. Afterwards, it will be back at its home at "Ascending Angel and Child" - the paintingfrom Lamberf's Lambert Castle where you will be able to see it, in splended collection and "Sheep Entering Fold," a 19th century condition, once again. French paintin1 by Charles Emil Jacque. Rotary funds are being used to restore the severely damaged pointing. The other two will be in storogeat Lambert Castleuntil moneycan be rol'sed to restore them. You can helpto restorethese two fine poinfings. Send contribufions to: Painting Restorotion, PCHS, Lambert Castle, Valley Rd., Paterson, N.J. 07503. Make check poyobleto Possoic County Historicol Society. Close-upsof cleaned fesf patches. Obserue the contrast between the light oreas which have been cleaned uith the sur?ounding uncleanedpainting. fl "Li f,eandTimes in Silk City" Everything you ever wanted exhibit opens in April Lambert to know about On April 14, 1984a major exhibition will open at the Lambert and were too awed to ask Castle Museum, the American Labor Museum and the Paterson Museum. Called "Life and Times in Silk City," it will give a comprehensive view of the silk industry in turn-of-the- Did you know that CatholinaLambert wasnicknamed "the century Paterson and its importance to the lives of the little minister" on his emigrantvoyage from Englandin 1851? residentsof "Silk City." The exhibit will run through April 1985. That this last tycoon of silk, art-collectorand Castle-builder The life-stylesand concerns of the silk mill owners will be extraordinary,was inclinedat soireesto singand accompany interpreted at the Lambert Castle Museum. Period photo- himself at the piano?That for some sevenyears he and his graphs,objects and works of art which once belongedto some familywintered in a little houbeon StraightStreet and had their of the city's industrialists will be on display in the "court" and heatpiped in from the Dexter, LambertMill? That duringthe music room. Of course, the centerpiece of the exhibit will be famous 1913strike, when he was pushingeighty, Lambert Lambert Castle itself, the former home of Catholina Lambert, almost came to blows with a fellow manufacturer over Dean of Paterson's silk industry. Restoration of Lambert's managementstrategy? once magnificent dining room, now the PCHS library, will be completed by April 14 so that museum visitors can enjoy this We didn't know it either, or somebody a different ornate and richly decorated room during the exhibit year and in eachcase - knew it and hadn'ttold. Now, with somebody beyond. the fiftiethanniversary of the LambertCastle Museum coming Using photographs as well as working machin etg, the upr Dr. Flavia Alaya, as editor of our anniversarybook, is Paterson Museum will explain the process of silk manufacture gBttingeverybody to tell her everything they know. These from sericulture through finishedcloth. A "hands-on" children's stories,and dozensmore (with as much as we can muster of section will also be included in their exhibit component. their whys and wherefores),will be incorporatedinto a new The lives and experiences of the mill workers will be biographicalessay on Lambertand his Castleto be published portrayed at the American Labor Museum located in the in time for our spring gala. They will also help provide Pietro Botto House, restored home of the immigrant silk backgroundfor the forthcoming"Lite and Timesin Silk City" worker and leader of the 1913 silk strike. Photographs, exhibition,while the abundantsource materialsturned up in artifacts and period rooms will be on view. the processwill be gathercdinto a singlecollection for the use The exhibition, for which the American Labor Museum has of future researchers. received a grant of $96,000from the National Endowment for Dr. Alaya, a longtime trustee and former presidentof the the Humanities, is cosponsored by the American Labor Historical Society, is a Ramapo College professor and a Museum, the PCHS/Lambert Castle Museum, the Paterson scholarof the Victorian period.She has volunteered her skills Museum and the Great Falls Development Corporation. The as a biographerfor us before,authoring the study of Gaetano close cooperation among the sponsoring institutions is a Federicithat accompaniedour majorexhibition of the sculptor's unique and exciting development in the museum field which work in 1980.Just as she did on the earlier project, she is has already drawn a good deal of interest both state-wide and *Life relyingnow on the researchtalents and energiesof numerous nationally. and Times in Silk City" is sure to focus much other peoplein the Museumcommunity - perhapseven more public attention on Paterson and its historic sites. It is an so than before, owing to a back ailment that kept her important, informative and exciting exhibition. You will not hospitalizedfor nearlythree weeksin November. want to miss it! Principalhelping hands - and feet - and wheels- have been those of Annita Zalenski, Society genealogist,who Calendar of 1984Events among many other things has discoveredthe last surviving April 14 -Opening of "Lif,eand Timesin Silk City" with Lambert grandson,Stanley Lambert; Society Director Cathy galabenefit for the three museums. F?:, Keeneand AssistantBarbara Rivolta, who have turned over April 15 -Museums OpenHouse for "Life andTimes in hundredsof piecesof memorabiliain our collectionsin search Silk City," at Lambert Castle Museum, d previously unexploited materiah and Passaic County AmericanLabor Museum, Paterson Museum. Historian Ed Smyk, who has generouslyopened his own May 16 - Annual Meeting honoring 50 years of the collections and those of Lambert's first biographer Edward Society'sresidence in LambertCastle. Graf to supply all kinds of missinglinks. 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