Identifying and Valuing Classic Animation Art
2023-02-06 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Presenter: Melanie Smith – Live Free Webinar with Moderator Brian Kathenes
This fascinating and exciting live-stream presentation describes the intricate process of creating classic animation art and how the animation process impacts the value of classic ‘cels’ and illustrations.
Melanie Smith will describe the many different steps required to create early cartoon art. Each step in this complex process required a different type of art, and a specific artistic skill set. She will share many illustrations and examples.
This classic American art form is no longer being created the way it was just a few years ago. New technology has replaced this intricate handmade process.
Understanding this process will help participants discover why the various types of animation art can have such a vast range of value, and what makes cartoon art so collectible.
Melanie Smith is second generation owner of Seaside Art Gallery. She has been handling animation art since the early 1980’s. The gallery has been a preferred gallery of Disney and Warner Bros., Hanna Barbera Studios, and United Feature. She also wrote the section on animation art for the International Society of Appraisers fine art course.
Register for this free, live-stream Manuscript Monday Webinar at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t9_68ct_TFeI0mhlC9_V5Q

NYAM Aristotle's Masterpiece: Reflecting On The Material Text
2023-01-28 11:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine
Aristotle’s Masterpiece, first published in 1684, was a steady seller into the 20th century, advising readers about sex and babies. Over the course of writing a book about the Masterpiece, Professor Mary Fissell looked at hundreds of copies. In her talk she will reflect on the relationship between evidence drawn from the material text, and that of readership from other sources.
About the Speaker
Mary E. Fissell, PhD,
Mary E. Fissell is the inaugural J. Mario Molina Professor in the History of Medicine in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the history of science and the history departments. Her scholarly work focuses on how ordinary people in early modern England understood health, healing, and the natural world. More recently, she has focused on how ordinary people understood their bodies, particularly reproduction, by looking at cheap print. Vernacular Bodies (Oxford, 2004) explored how everyday ideas about making babies mediated large scale social changes, because talking about the reproductive female body was also a way to talk about gender relations and thus all relations of power. Her current work continues to examine vernacular knowledge—ideas about the natural world that ordinary people used, made, shaped, and practiced. She connects the histories of gender, the body, and sexuality with those of popular culture and cheap print in the Atlantic world in a project focusing on an extraordinary popular medical book called Aristotle’s Masterpiece. First published in 1684, it was still for sale in sleazy London sex shops in the 1920s, having retained its currency for over 2 centuries.
Your financial support at any level helps us to provide the exciting programs and events you expect from The New York Academy of Medicine, and to sustain the Library’s books, journals, digital ventures and services. You will have an opportunity to make a donation when you register for the event
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The 2023 New Scholars Program, BSA Annual Meeting and Keynote by Dr. Kelly Wisecup, "Toward a Bibliography of Birchbark Books"
2023-01-27 14:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America
Friday, January 27 – 2pm-6pm Eastern | In-Person at Convene, 5:30 5th Ave. & Online
The 2023 Annual Meeting and New Scholars Program will be held in-person and live-streamed to our virtual audience starting at 2pm Eastern with New Scholars’ papers and a group question and answer session. Following a 30-minute break (snacks and beverages will be available at Convene for our in-person audience), the 2023 Annual Meeting will begin at 3:45pm Eastern. The entire program will be live-streamed for a virtual audience on the BSA YouTube Channel.
The Annual Meeting & New Scholars Program on 27 January 2023 will follow the agenda below:
2pm Eastern, New Scholars Program (Hybrid: In-Person and Online via YouTube)
3:15 to 3:45pm Eastern, Intermission
3:45pm Eastern: BSA Annual Meeting & Keynote Lecture by Dr. Kelly Wisecup, “Toward a Bibliography of Birchbark Books” (Hybrid: In-Person and Online via YouTube)
5pm Eastern: Reception
Visit the BSA website for a full schedule of the day’s events, including talk abstracts.
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John Blew on Chicago Artist Miklos Gaspar’s 1935 Mural Cycle in the Boys Club Room of the Union League Club of Chicago
2023-01-25 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
6:30pm CT, 7:30pm EST
The 1930s were the “golden age” of mural art in the United States. In 1935, Chicago artist Miklos Gaspar was commissioned to paint a mural cycle on all 93 feet of wall space in a private dining and meeting room of the Union League Club of Chicago. The murals depict in 28 scenes the activities at two Chicago boys clubs and a Wisconsin summer camp then operated by an affiliate of the Union League Club. These murals, still extant today, are a handsome example of that 1930s artistic tradition.
Join Caxtonian and Union League Club member John Blew in a behind the scenes virtual exploration of these murals, their artist, and the history of the events that spurred their creation. His talk was given to a live audience at the Union League Club in September 2021 and recorded at that time. John will be available after this Zoom presentation to respond to questions.
John Blew was born and raised in Chicago. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, after which he practiced corporate and securities law in Chicago for 45 years, retiring in 2011.
Please register if you’d like to see this program, even if you can’t attend at 6:30 on January 25. After the program, all registrants will receive an email offering an opportunity to request a link to a recording of the complete program.
Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5108556

Virtual Panel: Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing
2023-01-25 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Jan 25, 2:30-3:30 Eastern time
A panel of Carnegie Mellon scientists and scholars – Christopher N. Warren, Max G’Sell, and Grolier Club member Samuel Lemley – will speak on “Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing.” At the heart of this talk is the recognition that the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment developed out of a long and complex tradition of press controls and licensing in Europe and the colonies, and that this amendment’s framers understood a lesson sometimes under-appreciated by scholars: that press controls had long pushed certain kinds of printing underground. This panel’s members contend that some of the most fascinating stories of the First Amendment’s pre-history are yet to be told, and that they can only be discovered with tools, data and methods developed in computational bibliography. The most persuasive evidence of clandestine printing often lies below the threshold of human attention – in minute typographical details, recurring pieces of damaged type, similar or divergent paper stocks, or tiny variations in print shop practices, observable only at scale. At the same time, it takes sophisticated information architecture for researchers to move effectively from minute physical details to broader, more consequential patterns. This presentation introduces a project aiming to ameliorate the persistent challenges of studying clandestine printing with a suite of tools, data, and machine learning methods that can detect, model, and integrate hidden sources of information in letterpress print.
Register here for the virtual panel: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-clandestine-printing-bibliography-week-tickets-490550187817

Booksellers' Bibliography Week Showcase Mini-Antiquarian Book Fair
2023-01-25 10:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
Booksellers’ Showcase, In Person
Jan 25, 10:30 am-4:00 pm. At the French Institute / Alliance Française, 22 E 60th St, New York. Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. A special mini-antiquarian book fair. Join 35 exhibitors offering books, maps, ephemera, and more for sale at the Bibliography Week Showcase. The Showcase takes place in conjunction with Bibliography Week at FIAF on East 60th Street, just across from the Grolier Club.
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Speaking Texts: Recordings, Preservation, Accessibility, and Indigeneity
2023-01-24 13:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America
This panel brings together scholars who will explore bibliographical analysis of oral culture, textual transcription, and capture and preservation of recorded sound from a variety of perspectives and help us to think through how we might do a bibliography of sound and oral culture.
January 24, 2023 1 PM Eastern – ONLINE
Bibliographical analysis of texts requires close looking at objects, which traditionally have been printed textual artifacts. While scholars working in the digital humanities have made headway in pursuing the bibliographical analysis of digital objects, such as OCR’d text, bibliographical analysis of other kinds of new media, such as recorded sound and its accompanying textual transcriptions, has received less attention among bibliographers. Yet many texts, like the oral cultures of residents of Appalachia, tribal members of various Indigenous communities, and formerly enslaved people of African descent, are not recorded in printed text until after they are recorded in sound. Such various iterations of text in new recorded formats raise traditional bibliographical questions: What is an edition, state, and issue? Does the physical format of the sound recording help us to understand the production and dissemination of the text? This panel seeks to bring together several scholars who will explore bibliographical analysis of oral culture, textual transcription, and capture and preservation of recorded sound from a variety of perspectives and help us to think through how we might do a bibliography of sound and oral culture.
Speakers:
Justin Tackett, University of Warwick (Moderator)
Kopana Terry, University of Kentucky
Mara Mills, New York University
Alan Corbiere, York University
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The Koran in English — From Yusuf Ali to Sandow Birk
2023-01-23 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM Pacific Time
Virtual presentation
For millions of Muslims, the Qur’an is sacred only in the original Arabic. Revealed to an Arab merchant Muhammad in 7th century Arabia, it calls itself “an Arabic Qur’an”. At once lyrical and adamantine, it resists translation into any other language. Yet scholars have tried to cross the barrier, rendering it into numerous classical and modern languages, including English.
The most adventuresome 20th century translator, Yusuf ‘Ali, a British civil servant in India, even strove to make English itself an Islamic language, while a recent American voyager—at once surfer and artist—Sandow Birk created an American Qur’an in the 21st century, post 9/11.
In this talk, Bruce Bennett Lawrence will connect to many translators but he especially prizes the link between Yusuf Ali and Sandow Birk. While Yusuf Ali wants to make English an Islamic language, Sandow Birk hopes to make the Koran an American text/resource, a compass for post-9/11 Americans.
A virtual presentation by Bruce Bennett Lawrence, author, Marcus Family Humanities Professor of Religion Emeritus, Duke University, and adjunct professor at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UA-IcOELQT2ez8iry2-meg?mc_cid=027c3195ad&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Finding Your Focus: A Roundtable for Aspiring Book Collectors
2023-01-23 12:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America
Panel with past winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
This roundtable will feature recent winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for young women book collectors. The panelists will share the experience of building their winning collections, with an emphasis on the moments of inquiry, epiphany, and re-evaluation that shaped their projects. Our goal in this roundtable is to demystify the early stages of building a collection, when many aspiring collectors become discouraged or intimidated, by focusing on productive acts of re-direction and pivoting.
Register for the online presentation:
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Bibliography Week
2023-01-23 08:00 - 2023-01-27 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America, The Grolier Club and others
Jan 23-27
From Eric Holzenberg on the Grolier Club website: BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK happens each year at the end of January when the principal national organizations devoted to book scholarship and the book arts have their annual meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, since the attention of so many bibliophiles is focused on these few days. Some events are open to members only, but mostly you are encouraged to show up everywhere: get a sense of what is going on in the book world, hear some interesting papers, and schmooze with colleagues.
Select events open to all are listed individually in the calendar, or visit http://bibliographyweek.org/

Adventures in Bookmaking: Tales of a children’s book author, illustrator, publisher and maker of handmade books
2023-01-20 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
Sallie Lowenstein will speak on her experiences as author, illustrator, publisher and maker.
Thursday, January 20, 2022. 7:00 pm Eastern Time via Zoom. To register contact Binnie Syril Braunstein at bsbgc@aol.com

Ticknor Collecting Prize: Preparing Your Entry
2023-01-20 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Ticknor Society
On Friday, January 20th, at 6pm ET, The Ticknor Society will host “Ticknor Collecting Prize: Preparing Your Entry,” a Zoom event open to all who are interested in, or even just curious about, how to craft a submission for this year’s George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, opening March 1st. The purpose of this competition is to encourage New England-based book collectors to understand more deeply what their collection means to them, what they have collected, how it might be helpful to other collectors and researchers, and how they want their collection to develop in the future.
Why do you collect what you collect? What is the scope of your collection? What are your present and future goals? How can you best explain to others why it means so much to you? Preparing an entry for the Ticknor Collecting Prize is an opportunity to think about all of these things and more. Even if you don’t plan to enter, it’s a way to have fun with the books you love. Everyone is welcome to join the Zoom as we brainstorm together, get questions answered about format and technology, and, best of all, get to know other book enthusiasts! Join us on January 20th to help each other think it out and get started!
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcOGvqjgsE9fNC2zzz4YntoWqYVEkhZnT

A Discussion with Gerber-Hart Librarian and Archivist Erin Bell
2023-01-19 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium
When/Where: 1/19/2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST via Zoom.
January Daytime Program
Join Librarian and Archivist Erin Bell as she shares an overview of Gerber Hart Library and Archives. Founded in 1981, Gerber/Hart’s collections focus on the culture and history of LGBTQ peoples and additional marginalized sexual and gender minorities in Chicago and the Midwest. Gerber/Hart serves these communities by collecting, preserving, and making accessible collection items of individuals, organizations, and businesses, as well as publicly distributed items. Gerber/Hart also provides programming and exhibitions related to items in its collections and on other topics in LGBTQ history and culture. Learn more about the unique archival resources found in their collection in this presentation.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-discussion-with-gerberhart-librarian-and-archivist-erin-bell-tickets-511108989747?lang=en-us&locale=en_US&status=30&view=listing

Bookseller Josh Mann on Provenance and Association Copies
2023-01-18 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
Jan 18, 7:00pm Eastern time via Zoom
Josh Mann’s specialties include Victorian Literature, Modern American literature, and Signed Books and Presentation Copies. He has lectured on the value of signatures and author associations, and is a books and manuscripts appraiser at ABAA book fairs. Although literature is the heart of B & B, his clinical research background in Biology & Medicine has led to an additional focus in the History of Science and Medicine. Joshua is a New York City native, and his favorite book is The Picture of Dorian Gray.
To register please contact Binnie Syril Braunstein (bsbgc@aol.com)

Let's Talk About Animated Advertising: 200 Years of Premiums, Promos and Popups from the collection of Ellen K. Rubin
2023-01-18 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Jan 18, 6:00-7:30pm New York time
Join this virtual webcast of curator Ellen G. K. Rubin in conversation with three collectors and practitioners on movable paper works
Now on view at The Grolier Club, “Animated Advertising” features over 170 unique advertising objects from 200 years that demonstrate how animated and dimensional paper devices are used to promote products, art, entertainment, and ideas. Curated by Grolier Club member Ellen G. K. Rubin from her extensive pop-up and movable book and ephemera collection, the exhibition displays the creativity of advertisers in the areas of food, fashion, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, travel, music, and politics to catch the eye, hold the attention, and inform patrons and clientele about the items that they are marketing.
Exhibition highlights include a pop-up baseball card signed by Yogi Berra, a pop-up “vanity table” package containing make-up, a postcard of a new Wanamaker store that inflates, an annual report for Eskimo Pie in the form of an ice cream popsicle, the first automobile ad, prototypes for prospective advertisements, and a video showing many of the objects in motion. An accompanying color catalogue of the exhibition explores the history of advertising, from the effects of the Industrial Revolution on business, to the birth of ad agencies, social advances, and the application of new printing techniques to advertisements.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-panel-lets-talk-about-animated-advertising-tickets-491774078507?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Panel%3A+%22Let%27s+Talk+About+Animated+Advertising%22&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

Nick Wilding on Forgeries: Seeing Double: Oh Heavens!
2023-01-13 12:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
Jan 13, 12:30 Central Time/1:30 Eastern Time
Nick Wilding teaches a course at Rare Book School called “Forgeries, Facsimiles & Sophisticated Copies” and we’ll be attending for an hour or so as he talks about documents that delighted and then disappointed. To tell the story he draws a remarkable cast of characters. One of the world’s most revered scientists – a person who is so famous that he is instantly recognized by only his first name. Document dealers. Prestigious libraries. Authenticators. Prevaricators. And more. It’s every collector’s bête noire and every attendee’s best bet.
Nick Wilding is a professor of history at Georgia State University. Much published, he has held fellowships at Stanford, Cambridge, Columbia, the American Academy in Rome, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He gave a very popular talk to the Caxton Club years ago; whether you caught it or missed it, here’s another chance! If you like a terrific detective story that takes you from the era of fedoras and trench coats to the study of manuscripts and watermarks, then this program is for you. Please register if you’d like to see this program, even if you can’t attend at 12:30 on January 13. After the program, all registrants will receive an email offering an opportunity to request a link to a recording of the complete program.
Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5088956

Manuscript Mondays: New Year's Party
2023-01-02 20:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Jan 2, 8:00pm Eastern, 5:00pm Pacific
We’ll open the 2023 New Year as a virtual gathering of friends and lively discussions. Get your camera & mic ready (if you wish) – We’ll ALL be live!

Ask questions about collecting
Share a short collecting story
Discuss what’s new for 2023 at The Manuscript Society
Looking for a specific item? Let us know.
Or just hang out with a virtual cocktail and we’ll all toast to 75 years of The Manuscript Society.

All members of FABS societies welcome. Register today at:
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Olya Samilenko on Ukraine: Snow Goose Chronicles: How the Goose Became a Peacock
2022-12-16 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
Olya Samilenko will speak on her book The Snow Goose Chronicles.
A must read for anyone interested in the history of Ukraine, its life, and the fate of Ukrainian peasants during the Soviet period.
In this work, Samilenko takes us on a fascinating ride through 20th century Ukraine and its tragic history, as experienced by two Ukrainians and two Jews. Samilenko’s describes what can only be called the genocide of the peasants. She includes the GULAGs, labor camps in Karelia, especially “Solovki” located in the former “Solovetsky” Monastery on a Northern island where inmates starved and froze to death.
Thursday, December 16, 2021. 7:00 pm. Eastern time on Zoom. To register contact Binnie Syril Braunstein at bsbgc@aol.com

Robin Vose on "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God"
2022-12-13 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Tues Dec 13, 6:00pm-7:30pm Eastern time
Canadian scholar Robin Vose is the author of The Index of Prohibited Books, Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God (Reaktion/U. of Chicago Press). He will lecture on his research for this first comprehensive history of four centuries of the Catholic Church’s notorious “Index Librorum Prohibitorum,” with resonance for ongoing debates over banned books, censorship and free speech.
This lecture will be webcast live via YouTube.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-index-of-prohibited-books-tickets-461983945417?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*1npa53d*_up*MQ..&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj47gyfm1-wIV8RPUAR11yAUeEAAYASAAEgK3ofD_BwE

The Surprising Legacy of Alice Parsons Millard: Antiquarian Bookseller & Champion of Beauty and Taste Description
2022-12-12 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
Dec 12, 6:00pm Pacific time
** The Fourth Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West **
Book trade historian Charles Nelson Johnson provides a fresh look at lesser-known Southern California antiquarian bookseller Alice Parsons Millard (1873-1938)—a role she inherited as much as chose—and her activities as she courageously maneuvered her way through the decidedly male dominated trade in 1920s-1930s Europe and the United States; her personal challenges, creative business innovations and impact on numerous high profile clients, and her surprising California legacy.
Register here for webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6yw3ISaeS6-9KZaFBgMbQg?mc_cid=846715f310&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Benjamin Albritton on Giving Birth to Special Collections at Stanford University Libraries
2022-12-09 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
Dec 9, noon Central Time
There’s an exhibit on at Stanford about The Handmade Book. Its location speaks volumes about benefactors who have helped to build the library. The exhibit is in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda, Cecil H. Green Library, Bing Wing. (Even if you knew the way, could you resist asking just everyone for directions to the Bing Wing?)
It is easy to take for granted that an institution like Stanford would have very special special collections. But it wasn’t alway so. So how does a special collections library get started at a university that housed only about 3,000 books when it opened in 1885?
Dr. Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator and Bibliographer for Classics at Stanford will spin the remarkable tale that may even include a mention of the silent movie classic The Great Train Robbery. He holds degrees from universities on both coasts and from two countries: Yale, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Washington. A kind man, Albritton promises not to mention Palo Alto’s temperature as we gather in December.
We’re used to hearing about the wonderful treasures housed in special collections at famous libraries. But how does a library fill those shelves? Register today and prepare to settle into your favorite Zoom Room or even join us at the Union League Club for the intriguing answer!
Via Zoom Program. REGISTER HERE: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5031781
Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Zoom attendees will have an opportunity to participate in Q&A. Registration for attendance via Zoom is required.

Virtual Tour of "Building the Book" at the Grolier Club
2022-12-07 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Dec 7, 6:00-7:30pm Eastern time
Join “Building the Book” curators Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge for a pre-recorded virtual tour of this important exhibition at the Grolier Club, followed by a live Q&A with the curators.
Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day offers a carefully curated overview of how books have been produced throughout history and across various regions of the globe. The exhibition walks readers through the unique collections of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. Founded by MacArthur Fellow Terry Belanger, this international institute brings together leading curators, librarians, book historians, curators, and collectors from around the world to teach and learn about books as physical objects. See through their eyes how the book is made, step by step, from substrate to letterform, from printing to binding—and how technological innovations, such as the invention of paper or printing with metal type, developed in various societies.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour-of-building-the-book-tickets-396568496047?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*fajwg*_up*MQ..&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj47gyfm1-wIV8RPUAR11yAUeEAAYASAAEgK3ofD_BwE

Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean (The Historic New Orleans Collection)
2022-12-05 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Dec 5, 8:00-9:00pm Eastern time; 5:00pm Pacific
Guest: Dr. Alfred Lemmon, Director of the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Moderator: Brian Kathenes
New Orleans is French by name. The popular belief is that Spanish Louisiana was a relatively dormant period. In fact, the impact of Spain upon both New Orleans and the greater region is far greater than frequently thought. Frequently pictured as a “backwater” Spanish province, it in fact reflected the Spanish enlightenment. It was linked from the earlier days of the French colony to Havana, Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Santiago de Cuba, and Veracruz. Spanish Louisiana was a vibrant, critical period in the development of both New Orleans and Louisiana.
In this webinar, Lemmon will introduction us to The Historic New Orleans Collection’s exhibition devoted to the topic. This “voyage” will explore not only the Spanish contributions but the “unknown” lives of the better-known personalities of the period, such as Ulloa, O’Reilly, and Galvez. Surviving examples of material culture, maps, documents, and books selected for the exhibition offer insight into daily life of New Orleans and its constant interaction with the greater Spanish empire, in particular the Caribbean. During the webinar Lemmon will share some of the items from a total of 26 Spanish, Mexican and American institutions drawing attention to the role of Spain in defining the current city of New Orleans that make up the exhibition.
Alfred E. Lemmon is director of the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection. An authority on Spanish and French colonial history, he has been published in numerous books, encyclopedias and scholarly journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His expertise extends into the field of archival history. Among other honors, he has received the l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques from France and membership in the Orden de Isabel la Católica from Spain. In 2013, he received the Lifetime Contribution to the Humanities award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Register for the webinar here: https://manuscript.org/event/webinar-documents-spanish-new-orleans/

Adolph Sutro and the Bradshawe Library Pamphlets (English Civil War)
2022-11-21 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
6:00-7:15 pm Pacific time; In-person and virtual presentation
In the Sutro Library, now housed in the J. Paul Leonard Library of San Francisco State University, are 40 bound volumes containing some 1400 pamphlets mostly from the period of the English Civil War (1640-1660). Each volume, with one or two exceptions, is inscribed with the name “Henry Bradshawe” on the title-page of the first pamphlet. Who was this “Henry Bradshawe,” and how did his invaluable collection find its way into the library of San Francisco’s great benefactor Adolph Sutro?
The Bradshawe library was sold at auction in 1784 by a later member of the family; a century after the sale, Adolph Sutro purchased the 40 volumes of pamphlets from James Crossley, a Manchester magnate who had assembled a magnificent library of his own, and was consulted as an expert on Bradshawe ownership signatures. Documentation concerning the Crossley-Sutro transaction survives in the Sutro Library archives.
In addition to the Civil War pamphlets in the Sutro Library, Professor Nelson will comment on local books from the Bradshawe Library, including books in the Robbins Collection in the Berkeley School of Law, Stanford University Library, a 1632 2nd Folio Shakespeare at the University of California, Davis, and books which he himself has collected and will place on display.
An in-person and virtual presentation via Zoom by Alan H. Nelson,
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z2hWm3rMT0WcvUopQVlk-w?mc_cid=b01d1ff05f&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Virtual Lecture: Black Cartoonist Oliver Harrington
2022-11-15 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Nov 15, 6:00pm-7:30 Eastern time
Georgia physician Walter Evans, collector of historical and contemporary African American art and literature, in conversation with Jenny Robb, Head Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art at the Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, about Black cartoonist Oliver “Ollie” Harrington (1912-1995). Harrington was the subject of an exhibition, “Dark Laughter Revisited: The Life and Times of Ollie Harrington,” at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in early 2022. This retrospective featured work from Dr. Evans’ collection, as well as that of the Museum’s collection, acquired from Harrington’s widow Dr. Helma Harrington. Dr. Evans gave a talk about his collections for Grolier Club members last September.
Ollie Harrington used his voice and artistic talents as a cartoonist to attack racial, economic and social injustice with razor-sharp wit and insight. From the perspective of a cartoonist of color, his commentary chronicled many of the events and issues that defined the 20th century, from segregation and apartheid to war and poverty. His life and career intersected with the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement, the Black emigre community in Paris after WWII, and communist East Germany. Starting in the 1930s, Harrington’s work was widely published in the Black press. His long-running series “Dark Laughter” – later known as “Bootsie” – cast a satirical yet affectionate gaze on Black America through the adventures of an observant African American “everyman.” During WWII he served as a war correspondent and later worked briefly as the NAACP’s PR director. Harrington was an unapologetic activist and critic of racism and capitalism, who emigrated to Paris in 1952 and ultimately to Berlin in 1961, in response to concern about FBI surveillance due to his outspoken criticism of the U.S. government. He continued his career there, publishing trenchant editorial cartoons in the “Daily World” and the German satirical publication, “Eulenspiegel.”
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Virtual Lecture: Denise Gigante and "Book Madness"
2022-11-14 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Mon Nov 14, 6:00-7:30 Eastern time
Denise Gigante, a professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, will lecture on her new publication, “Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America.” For this fascinating history of American bookishness, Prof. Gigante’s springboard is the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 in New York. At his death, the British essayist owned 60 scruffy tomes, singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, bescribbled by Lamb and friends, and stripped of illustrations. The dispersal of the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors caused a sensation in the transatlantic book world. Dr. Gigante’s studies of Lamb’s volumes shed light on bibliophiles who shaped American intellectual life: booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, and clergymen. Her tales of loss, obsession and spiritual revival bring to life a lost world of letters at a time when many of America’s major libraries were born.
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Jessica Star and Ben Maggs: What It’s Like Being Rare Book Dealers in London
2022-11-13 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
Online Sunday, November 13, 12 pm (PDT)
Register for this event on The Book Club of Washington’s website: www.bookclubofwashington.org
Jessica Starr (Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers) and Ben Maggs (Maggs Bros. Ltd.) will provide a glimpse behind the curtain of the rare book trade in London, discussing how they became book dealers, their experiences of working in the trade, and what a typical day is like for them. Ben will describe the long and distinguished history of Maggs, and both will comment on the contemporary book world in London. Jessica and Ben will also delve into getting serious about book collecting and how building relationships with dealers can improve the collecting experience.

The Literary Archive of Elizabeth Coatsworth and Kate Barnes, Mother and Daughter
2022-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baxter Society
Wed. Nov. 9 at 7:00pm Eastern Time
Open to all members of FABS Societies. Email baxtersociety@gmail.com to request a link, which will be sent on the morning of the event.
Jefferson Navicky, Archivist and Sarah E. Baker, Curator, both of the Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England, will speak about the literary archive of noted children’s book author/poet Elizabeth Coatsworth and her daughter Kate Barnes, Maine’s first poet laureate.

Virtual Panel: From Jikji to Gutenberg (Symposium on Cast Metal Type)
2022-11-08 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club

About this event

An international scholarly collaboration, the “From Jikji to Gutenberg” project will culminate in publications and exhibitions related to the origins of printing from cast-metal type, commemorating the 650th anniversary of the Korean printed book “Jikji.” Speakers will include Randy Silverman, Preservation Librarian, University of Utah Marriott Library; Jonathan Thornton, Professor Emeritus, three-dimensional object conservation, SUNY Buffalo; and Jennifer Giaccai, Conservation Scientist, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution. For more information about this topic, see the Atlas Obscura write-up.

Manuscript Monday: The Tile Club (1877-1887) [American Decorative Arts]
2022-11-07 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Manuscript Monday – The Tile Club 1877-1887
Monday, November 7, 2022; 8:00PM-9:00 Eastern
Presenter: Dr. Stuart Embury Moderator: Brian Kathenes

The Tile Club was one of many societies that formed across the United States during the late nineteenth century.
It included well-known artists; Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Edwin Austin Abbey, J. Alden Weir, John H. Twachtman, and many others.
The Tile Club was founded in 1877 riding the growing wave of interest in the decorative arts. Members met once a week and would each contribute to the “decorative age” by painting an eight-by-eight-inch ceramic tile. These meetings became a time to socialize, dine, and enjoy the music performed by guests and honorary members.
Tiles formed only a small part of the Club’s activities. Members took ‘road trips’ to Long Island and up the Hudson River to sketch and paint.
Dr. Stuart Embury shares his knowledge and research about these artists and their decorated tiles.

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