#  The Ticknor Society Collectors' Roundtable: Collecting Iconic Americana: Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Jacobs, and Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 7, 2026** 

 12:30PM EST 

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 **Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02115**  



 

 



 

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[**The Ticknor Society**](https://www.ticknor.org/) **Collectors' Roundtable: Collecting Iconic Americana: Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Jacobs, and Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free**

Speakers:  
[**Thomas A. Horrocks**](https://www.thelincolnforum.org/officers), Independent Scholar; Editor-in-Chief, The Lincoln Herald   
[**Jeanne Schinto**](https://www.jeanneschinto.com/), Independent Writer; Former Reporter, Maine Antique Digest  
**Beth Carroll-Horrocks**, Special Collections & Archives Professional; Founding Member, Harriet Jacobs Legacy Committee  
Moderator: [**Kathy Alpert**](https://www.postmarkpress.com/the-book/), Collector, Writer, Researcher, and Author of the new book, “Lost & Found: Historic Boston in Postcards”

Three collectors, three ways of building a life around a single obsession. Thomas A. Horrocks shows how a serious Lincoln collection can be built on a modest budget, drawing on decades of pursuit that inform his forthcoming Abraham Lincoln in 50 Objects. Beth Carroll-Horrocks traces her long effort to document abolitionist Harriet Jacobs across formats—publications, artwork, ephemera—as a founding member of the Harriet Jacobs Legacy Committee. And Jeanne Schinto turns to photography itself, presenting a collection of immigrant photo-books spanning Muybridge to Steichen to Robert Frank. Moderated by Kathy Alpert, this Ticknor Society Roundtable is a conversation about what it actually takes to build a meaningful collection—the persistence, the instinct, and the occasional stroke of luck—around three of American history's most enduring subjects.





 

 



 

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