9:30 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:30

Registration and Refreshments

Opening remarks and introductions

John C. Van Horne, Director, Library Company of Philadelphia

Cathy Matson, Director, Program in Early American Economy and Society and Professor of History, University of Delaware

Erika Piola, Assistant Curator of Prints and Photographs, Library Company of Philadelphia

Short Film: An Introduction to Lithography

10:30 – 12:30

Chair, Cathy Matson

Martin Brückner, English Department, University of Delaware
The Lithographed Map in Philadelphia: Innovation, Imitation, and Antebellum Consumer Culture

Jeffrey Cohen, Growth and Structure of Cities Department, Bryn Mawr College
The Face (and Space) of Commerce in the New 19th-Century City

Audience discussion

12:30 – 2:00

Lunch on your own.

2:00 – 3:30

Chair, Erika Piola

Nancy Finlay, Curator of Graphics, The Connecticut Historical Society
Some Evidence for the Sale and Distribution of Kellogg Prints, 1830-1870

Georgia Barnhill, Center for Historic American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society
Commercial 19th-Century American Lithography:An Economic History

Audience discussion

3:30 – 3:45

Break for Refreshments

3:45 – 5:15

Chair, Cathy Matson

Linzy Brekke-Aloise, History Department, Stonehill College
"A Very Pretty Business": Fashion and Consumer Culture in Antebellum American Prints

Joanna Cohen, History Department, Queen Mary, University of London
Reading the Retailscape: Examining the Art of Advertising in the Urban Northeast, 1830-1860

Audience discussion

5:15 – 6:30

Reception