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Found in Collection 2020 FOUND IN Collection From the Archives of the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm Fall 2020 2. From the Archives and Collections of the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm Table of Contents Page 3 A Note From the Archivist Hospitality Page 4 Pages 4 - 5 Uncovering the Scrapbook of Rochester’s First Female Postmaster Back in the Day Page 6 Page 7 A Summer Internship at the Museum Page 8 These Letters Tell a Story Learn to Scan Your Photos Page 8 Page 9 A Young Lady on the Woman Question Page 10 Explore Women’s History Pages 11-12 A Trip to Asia Page 10 Found in Collection is a phrase used in the Museum field to describe undocumented Page 9 objects found within a Museum’s collections whose donor, history, and significance are unknown. These items pose the exciting (and sometimes frustrating) challenge of figuring out where they came from. Page 11 From the Archives and Collections of the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm 3. A Note from the Archivist Hospitality is one of the resident, student, researcher or just someone who pillars of the Rochester loves history, I invite you to explore the Museum’s Hills Museum at Van archives. There is an incredible story waiting for you. Hoosen Farm. Welcoming visitors to our grounds, our buildings, and into In the postscript of Chronicle of Van Hoosen our history is what we Centenary Farm, Sarah Van Hoosen Jones shares do every single day but the story of international delegates of the Associated this began long before Country Women of the World. the Van Hoosen Farm was a museum. Alice, “At 6:30 p.m. I was truly thrilled to see the bus slowly Bertha, and Sarah opened turn into our gateway with its honored guests; who their home and farm to came from Canada, our good neighbor, Trinidad, New their family, friends, and Zealand, Australia, North and South Ireland, Wales, community (both local and international) for over Scotland and England. As the bus proceeded toward 50 years. the house I realized it was crossing great-grandfather Elisha Taylor’s mill-yard. So the Centennial Farm had lived from the deep woods of the Territory of Michigan to a suburb of a great city, Detroit, to see the coming of visitors from far away overseas countries.” Sincerely, Samantha Lawrence Samantha Lawrence [email protected] 248.841.2673 Archival photographs offer us a glimpse into the Van Hoosen’s hospitality. One photograph in particular has always stood out to me. It shows the members of the Rochester Women’s Business Club gathered in the Van Hoosen Farmhouse for a Christmas party. Bertha Van Hoosen stands at the head of the table carving a turkey with the welcoming figures of the Hospitality plaque just to her left. The angle of the photograph makes you feel as though you are seated right alongside these women. This is one of the magical things about archives. You can peer into a moment that has long since passed and imagine what it was like to be there. With every issue of Found in Collection, we welcome you into the archives to share the projects we are working on, the objects we are preserving, and the history we are uncovering. Whether you are a local 4. From the Archives and Collections of the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm Jones recalled in her book Chronicle of Van Hoosen Hospitality Centenary Farm that the architect behind the By Rebecca Wagener farmhouse’s renovation objected to the plaque being installed, but in her words, “What could one man do Bertha Van Hoosen embodied the true meaning against three women?” of hospitality. She was known to never turn away a patient, and charged them only what they could We may never definitively know what the story and pay. In several cases, her patients would repay her meaning behind the Hospitality plaque is, but we can kindness and generosity with gifts in addition to theorize what they may be. The style of clothes the money. These patients were known as her “grateful people in the plaque are wearing resembles the togas patients or “GPs” for short. worn in Ancient Greece. The woman seated on the throne in the center with her arms outstretched is set apart from the other figures and is larger in size. This symbolizes that this is the person who the story of Hospitality is centered around. Hospitality was a deeply important aspect of life in Ancient Greece. It was believed that you should welcome every stranger or friend that comes to your home and treat them with kindness, for you could never know if it was a Greek god in disguise. One Greek goddess that often represented hospitality was Hestia. Hestia is the goddess of the Hearth, and often the home. She was believed to watch over families and homes, but also the strangers that may visit these homes. Turning away a stranger was seen as disrespectful to Hestia. The woman at the center of Hospitality shares a lot of the same qualities as Hestia. She has her arms One of these gifts can be spotted instantly when outstretched towards the other people, in a way that you walk in the front door of the Van Hoosen seems like she is welcoming them. She also is seated Farmhouse. It’s a sculpture built into the bricks of on a throne next to a flame. This flame, known as the living room fireplace, named Hospitality. the Hearth, is the most common symbol of Hestia. Hospitality is a bas-relief sculpture, also known as Hestia watches over the Hearth, and many Ancient a low-relief. The artist that made this would have Greek towns would have an eternal flame honoring carved away at plaster until the figures became her. Another possible symbol of Hestia in Hospitality slightly more raised than the rest of the surface. is the flowers the guests are carrying. Another symbol This adds depth to the carving, and draws more of the goddess is the chaste tree, which somewhat attention to the people. The artist then painted the resembles the branches carried by the guests. Just entire sculpture, giving it its bright colors. This style like Hestia, Bertha Van Hoosen represents the true of sculpture became very popular in the 1800s in meaning of hospitality. In a way, Hospitality may the United States as artists became inspired by relief not just be an image of Greek mythology, but also a sculptures from the Italian Renaissance. representation of Bertha herself. The exact year the sculpture was made is unknown, As a doctor, Bertha never turned away a patient, even but we do know it was made prior to the renovation if they were unable to pay her. In Petticoat Surgeon, of the Van Hoosen Farmhouse that began in 1923. Bertha said, “Of one thing I am certain. It was Bertha originally displayed Hospitality in her Chicago not my urge for money that influenced my choice, home, and received it from an Italian patient who even though the financial need was great.” Bertha made the sculpture by hand. When she came back to welcomed every patient with open arms, helping her home in Stony Creek, Bertha carried Hospitality them and treating them as family. Money was never a with her on the train from Chicago. Bricks from reason to turn away a patient. The figures to the sides the fireplace were removed and additional plaster of Hospitality are all women and younger children, was added to install the plaque. Sarah Van Hoosen much like Bertha’s patients. In a way, Bertha Van From the Archives and Collections of the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm 5. Continued from Page 4 Hoosen was like a modern-day Hestia. Bertha would Chicago, were inspired to make beautiful creations watch over the families and patients she treated. to thank her, like Hospitality and other objects in the The Van Hoosen family often welcomed guests into Van Hoosen family’s home. Bertha Van Hoosen was their home, treating them with as much kindness as the personification of hospitality and went above and possible. beyond to make the world a better place. Even in the lifetime of Bertha Van Hoosen, it Rebecca Wagener is a senior at Albion College. She is was uncommon for a person to express so much majoring in anthropology and art history with minors in hospitality to strangers. For Bertha, there was no history and geology. She plans to begin graduate school fear that turning away a patient would lead to the in the fall of 2021 for museum studies with a focus on wrath from a Greek god. Her actions came from the archaeology and collections management. She has worked kindness in her heart. This kindness cared for and at the Rochester Hills Museum for the past two and a half summers and is grateful for the opportunity to work on this saved countless lives. She had a lasting effect on each project with Samantha Lawrence in the summer of 2019. of her patients. Several patients, like the woman from Back in the Day... At the Rochester Hills Museum, we are always looking (DDA), the Museum installed 10 Back in the Day for ways to share our archives beyond the boundaries signs on lampposts throughout downtown. Each of our 16-acre museum complex. This summer, sign features an archival photo from the Museum’s we were able to bring history right to the streets of collections and offers a link to more history.
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