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Date: May 21, 2013
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00PM
Location: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029
This is a Museum of the City of New York event co-sponsored by NYAM Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health.
Dr. Stanley B. Burns, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center, and distinguished author, archivist, and collector, has amassed the most comprehensive collection of this genre in the world and published three books on the subject: the Sleeping Beauty series. Dr. Burns will speak about how postmortem photography shaped American culture in the 19th century. Presented in conjunction with A Beautiful Way to Go: Brooklyns' Green-Wood Cemetery.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: $6 Museum members; $8 seniors and students; $12 general public.
For more information or to register by phone, please call 917-492-3395
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