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Working Collections: Collectors Who Use Their Books (Ticknor Society)
Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:00 PM

  • Ken Wheeling, carriage historian and former Shelburne Museum director, on his large research library of books, manuscripts and ephemera about horse-drawn vehicles.
  • Judith B. Tankard, garden historian, on how she uses her landscape history collection in writing her books, including Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
  • John McVey, Montserrat College of Art, on his collection of telegraphic code dictionaries — books that were at the center of telegraphic message practices ca. 1870-1930.

Moderated by Sidney E. Berger, Ann C. Pingree Director of the Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum.

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  • Friday: 5pm to 9pm
  • Saturday: 12noon to 7pm
  • Sunday: 12noon to 5pm

Activities at the Fair