Panel Discussion: "Easy Vehicles of Knowledge for an Enlightened and Free People": American Periodicals in the Watkinson, 1750-1950
Date and Time
October 4, 2017
03:00PM - 04:30PM EDT
Location
Joslin Family 1823 Room, The Watkinson Library, Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
Catered Reception at the Watkinson Library to follow from 4:30 to 6pm
Speakers are:
Leonard Banco, M.D., Guest-Curator of teh exhibition, collector of early Americana, Trustee of the Watkinson, and volunteer author and compiler of the guides to our periodical collection
Jonathan Elukin, Associate Professor of History, who has been at Trinity for 20 years and teaches the history of teh book, among other courses
Steven Lomazow, M. D., a New Jersey-based neurologist and one of the premier collectors of American magazines in the country
Richard Samuel West, owner of Periodyssey (Northampton, MA), specializing in 19th ct. American periodicals and paper, and the author of fie books on American political cartooning.