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Activities at the Fair [return to all activities]

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.