VCP at LCP 2013 Conference

Conference Program

Thursday, September 19:
5:30-7:30 p.m.

Reception and exhibition tour by curators Rachel D’Agostino and Erika Piola

Friday, September 20:

10:00-10:30 Registration

10:30-11:00 Opening Remarks

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

Rachel D’Agostino, Co-Director, VCP at LCP, Library Company of Philadelphia

Nancy Rosin, President, The Ephemera Society of America

11:00-12:30 Session 1: Building and Promoting Institutional Collections of Ephemera: Patent Medicine at UCLA & World’s Fairs at Hagley Museum and Library

Chair: Rachel D’Agostino, Library Company of Philadelphia

Russell Johnson, Curator, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library at UCLA

Terry Snyder, Librarian of the College, Haverford College

12:30-2:00 Lunch (On your own)

2:00-3:30 Session 2: The Impact of Photography on the 19th-Century Viewscape: Stereographs & Postcards

Chair: Diane DeBlois, Editor of Publications, The Ephemera
Society of America

Jeremy Rowe, Jeremy Rowe Vintage Photography - vintagephoto.com

Chris Pyle, Historical Resources Manager, Curt Teich Postcard Archives, Lake County Discovery Museum, Wauconda, Illinois

3:30-4:00 Break

4:00-5:30 Session 3: Artistry in 19th-Century Ephemera Production and Collection: Trade Cards & Scrapbooks

Chair: Erika Piola, Co-Director, VCP at LCP, Library Company of Philadelphia

Richard Sheaff, R. Dana Sheaff & Company

Ellen Gruber Garvey, Professor of English, New Jersey City University

6:00-8:00 Reception
The Print Center, 1614 Latimer Street

Co-sponsors
The Visual Culture Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia
and The Ephemera Society of America

Contact
To receive more information about , or to discuss public programming, please contact Erika Piola, Associate Curator of Prints and Photographs at epiola@librarycompany.org or Rachel D'Agostino, Curator of Printed Books at rdagostino@librarycompany.org.

Thursday, September 19: 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Friday, September 20:

Thursday, September 19:
5:30-7:30 p.m.