Photoessay #2066 - Rich and the rest of us

I want to make it clear that I am casting no aspersions on the Colony (local name for the New Haven Historical Society),  They've been very helpful to me.

But I can't help thinking....

The first picture is the home of the New Haven Museum and Historical Society.  On Whitney Avenue, in one of the nicest part of New Haven.  They had this structure built for them in 1920.  The building houses a museum and the Historical Society's collections.  We worked in a lovely reading room with natural light.  Paid staff, natch.

The second picture is the Ethnic Heritage Center in New Haven.  Part of Southern Connecticut State University.  Not in a tony part of New Haven at all.  You have be buzzed in through a double door.  Corrugated metal.  I think the roll up utility bay adds some ambiance.  This proud organization houses the Jewish, Ukrainian, Italian, Irish and African American Historical Societies.  There's a central area working room and each society has an area surrounding the main area.  I hang out here in the Jewish Historical Society portion.  I've found great stuff and had a good times here.

No windows, just hanging fluorescent fixtures.  So when my cousin Malcolm took the photograph of the Picture (Maier Zunder) last winter, he took it outside.  The volunteer archivists had a fit about it going outside.

My husband Dennis and cousin Mary Ann arriving one morning last week ready to go to work.

One could make some assumptions about class entitlement values now and over the last several centuries.

Just saying....