Events

December 13, 2008

The Hudson County Genealogical Society will be holding its regular meeting. Our featured speaker will be Gary D. Saretzky, Archivist, County of Monmouth, Coordinator, Internship Programs, Rutgers History Department. He will present "Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers: Hudson County"

Of the approximately 3,000 different photographers who were active in New Jersey before 1900, a substantial number worked in Hudson County, primarily in Jersey City. In a slide lecture, Gary D. Saretzky will profile these pioneers and discuss them within the larger context of New Jersey photography in the Nineteenth Century.

Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: Secaucus Public Library, Secaucus, NJ
Directions: http://secaucus.bccls.org

About Gary D. Saretzky

Gary D. Saretzky, archivist and photographer, has worked as an archivist for nearly forty years at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Educational Testing Service, and the Monmouth County Archives, where he has been County Archivist since 1994. Saretzky also taught the history of photography at Mercer County Community College since 1977 and has served as coordinator of the Public History Internship Program for the Rutgers University History Department since 1994. He is a former Chair of the New Jersey Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) and a past member of the New Jersey State Historical Records Advisory Board. Under the auspices of the Horizons Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, he lectures around the state on topics related to the history of photography. Saretzky has published more than 100 articles and reviews on the history of photography, photographic conservation, and other topics, including “Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers,” in the journal, New Jersey History, Fall/Winter 2004.

Biographical References

• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who in American Art
• Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators

Other Lectures by Gary D. Saretzky

• Margaret Bourke-White: Eyes on Russia
• 12 Million Black Voices
• Louise Rosskam: Documentary Photographer
• Elias Goldensky: Wizard of Photography
• Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers
• Before They Fade: Photographic Conservation
• The Joshua Huddy Era: Documents of the American Revolution