@jgarc.bsky.social
AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Yes if course! jgarcia@mwa.org
✨John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social speaks tomorrow at 5:15pm EST - hope that you can make it!
Attend in-person on the sixth floor of Penn's Van Pelt Library or remotely via Zoom.
Feb 16 • 🕔 5:15 PM EST
Full details at: pennmaterialtexts.org
(Pic: Indenture form, Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
This cake made by #auntiequarian
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@douglassday.bsky.social #douglasssay
CalRBS is happy to share our Summer 2025 course listings are published! We are dedicated to providing the knowledge and skills required by collectors and professionals studying for and working in all aspects of GLAM fields. #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraries #bibliograophy
This Monday, Feb 16, 5:15pm EST
📚 We welcome John Garcia (American Antiquarian Society) @jgarc.bsky.social for “Black Lives in the Early U.S. Book Trades.”
Join us for a rich conversation on race, labor, and the history of print.
Details: pennmaterialtexts.org
Hope to see you there!
Now online and accepting applications. The 2026 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book— “Paper Relations: Hisrories and Futures of Indigenous Print Cultures” Led by Katie Walkiewicz and Kelly Wisecup. Deadline to apply is April 3!
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
Folks in the U of Miami area—I’ll be giving a lecture on Tuesday, Sept 9 about Black participation in early American print shops, paper mills, and libraries at the Kislak Center.
Interesting. Fun fact: the Huntington has a Magnalia that belonged to Samuel Taylor Coleridge—with a little mss poem inside dissing Cotton lol
Wow! Any IT marginalia going on in there???
Next week! Christopher Looby delivers the James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture. Register to attend in-person at AAS or virtually.
#bookhistory #C19
Next Tuesday 4/15 is the deadline to apply for this summer’s CHAViC seminar on Nineteenth-Century American Photography in the World. Don’t miss it!
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Next week is the deadline to apply for the AAS seminar on “Sex, Gender, and Print”—led by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Stein, with guest speakers Emily A. Owens, Kathryn Walkiewicz, and Christopher Looby. Apply by April 4. Link in comments!
Next week! Virtual Book Talk featuring Ben Bascom’s Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early U.S. Thurs. March 27 at 2pm EST. Link in comments to register.
We’ll be here!
Preview of the AAS summer seminar on 19th-cent. American Photography. Applications due next month—and tuition scholarships are available for junior scholars.
Interested in early photography? Consider taking the 2025 Summer Seminar in Historic American Visual Culture, July 27-Aug. 1, at the American Antiquarian Society.
Link with more info in comments.
That’s the one and only M.A. Gannon, performing in the role of “Little Pickle” c.a. 1843!
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