Posts Tagged ‘virtual event’
Dr. Jessica Linker on her Ticknor Prize-winning Collection
May 9th, 2023, 6-7:30 pm, Zoom Professor Jessica Linker, winner of the 2022 Ticknor Collecting Prize, presented a talk on her research collection of books and other materials related to the life and work of Emma Hart Willard (1787-1870). View her winning entry, “Emma Hart Willard: A Life in Print,” here, and Ticknor members can sign into…
Read MoreCollector’s Corner, with Tim Weiskel
March 21, 2023, 6pm, Zoom On Tuesday, March 21, several dozen Ticknorites and others joined Tim Weiskel, via Zoom, for a fascinating talk on accessing digital maps and other media, particularly on the subjects of Africa and global history as it relates to Africa. Tim’s personal and teaching collection is deep and broad, and we…
Read MoreReid Byers on “The Private Library”
February 22, 2023, 6pm, Zoom On Wednesday evening, February 22, Ticknor Society member Reid Byers took his Zoom audience on an extraordinary journey across continents and millennia to view and learn all about a remarkable variety of private libraries and their architecture, furnishings, and users. It was fascinating to learn precisely where these rooms of books…
Read MoreTicknor Collecting Prize: Preparing Your Entry
January 20, 2023, 6pm, Zoom 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 George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting…
Read More2022 Show & Tell
December 6, 2022, 6pm, Zoom Our annual appreciation of each other’s collections took place online on December 6th, 2022, and included presentations by Ticknor members Dorothy Africa, who updated us on new additions to her collection of binding exemplars and artist’s books; Marie Canaves, who introduced us to incredible Chinese thread books made from folded…
Read MoreFirst-ever Collectors Happy Hour
October 21, 2022, Zoom On October 21st, eleven Ticknorites met online to discuss their collections in our first ever Collectors Happy Hour. Hosted by Ticknor Collecting Prize Coordinator Maida Tilchen, attendees briefly described what they collect and why, followed by an informal conversation in which attendees asked each other questions, offered advice and resources for…
Read MoreLibrary Tour with Erika Hapke Knowles
May 3, 2022, 6 pm, Zoom Erika Hapke Knowles took Ticknorites on a virtual tour of her 2021 Ticknor Prize-winning collection of books and ephemera related to her hometown of New Milford, CT. The collection is deeply personal, originating from a reference to her grandfather she encountered by chance in a history of the town,…
Read MoreThe History Project
March 22, 2022, 6 PM, Zoom Joan Ilacqua, Executive Director of The History Project, took attendees on a virtual tour of The History Project’s collections. Established in 1980, The History Project is Boston’s LGBTQ+ community archives and holds over 200 collections documenting LGBTQ+ life and experience in the Boston area and regionally in New England.…
Read MoreMuseum of Science Archives
February 15, 2022, 6 PM, Zoom Archivist Brittany Contratto took Ticknor members on a virtual, behind-the-scenes tour of the Museum of Science Archives. In 2017, Bloomberg Philanthropies generously provided funding for the first archives department in the Museum’s nearly 200-year history. The Archives traces the Museum’s development from the venerable Boston Society of Natural History,…
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