Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. David R. Brigham will offer a behind-the-scenes tour of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A behind-the-scenes tour via Zoom of the treasures of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, founded in 1824 in Philadelphia. Its collection of over 21 million manuscripts, books, and graphic images encompasses 400 years of U.S. […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Graphic designer and letterpress printer Professor Sarah McCoy will lecture on the lively, tumultuous lives of Colonial women printers, who were backbones of their families and communities. Words that they printed and disseminated, amid triumphs and hardships, helped shape the culture and freedoms of the early colonial world. Dr. McCoy […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Kathy Walkup will offer a behind-the-scenes tour of an artists' books exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book. A virtual tour of Possibilities: When artists’ books were young, a show at the San Francisco Center for the Book, will be led by Grolier member Kathleen Walkup. In the […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club The panel will offer a conversation about Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger, explorers and photographers "At the Edge." A conversation between exhibition curator Dr. Roger Härtl and other experts about two explorers, authors and photographers “At The Edge.” Sella and Thesiger wandered the world at the crossroads of the age […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Nicole Howard, Professor of History at Eastern Oregon University, will speak on her new book, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500-1750 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). She will explore how, during the early modern era, some scientific authors disliked and distrusted the newly invented printing press, to […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Held in conjunction with the Grolier Club’s current public exhibition “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life,” running in the ground-floor exhibit hall through July 30, this will be a Zoom talk by the exhibition’s co-curator and Grolier member Nicholas Fry. Organized by Fry and the rest […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolier Club member Mary Catherine “MC” Kinniburgh, currently at Granary Books (a NYC-based rare book and archives dealer, and independent publisher), and creator of her own small editions of artists’ books under the imprint TKS, will explore how the characteristics of 20th-century counterculture poets' libraries shed light on the history […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Nick Fry will give an online lecture on "Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads." About this event Nicholas Fry, curator of "Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons," will speak on "Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads." His presentation will show the portrayal of railroad construction and workers in […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Nick Fry will give an online lecture on "Tycoons: Men, Money and Monuments." A Zoom talk by Nicholas Fry, curator of "Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons," on "Tycoons: Men, Money and Monuments." Offered in connection with the exhibition "Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life," curated by […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Sept 12, 12:00-1:30 New York time Zoom tour of this exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum. About this event A Zoom tour of "Finding Nura: Rediscovering an American Modernist from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection," on display at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Amherst, MA) through […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Allen Ellenzweig will speak on photographer George Lynes. September 20, 6:00pm New York time About this event Virtual talk by Allen Ellenzweig, author of George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye . Lynes (1907-1955) was the lover of, and collaborator with, Grolier Council member Monroe Wheeler, an exhibition curator and art book designer […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club A talk exploring the life, work, and home of lexicographer Samuel Johnson by Celine Luppo McDaid, for the past decade Donald Hyde Curator and Director of Dr. Johnson's House in London. McDaid is responsible for managing the only UK museum dedicated to the history of the English language, curating three […]