Upcoming & Current Events

Current Exhibition in the Library Company’s
Louise Lux-Sions and Harry Sions Gallery:

Remnants of Everyday Life: Historical Ephemera in the
Workplace, Street, and Home

Exhibition on View:
May 1–October 13, 2013

Gallery Open
Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.

The exhibition and its accompanying programming are supported by funds from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the
Philadelphia Cultural Fund.

Library Company 2013 Annual Meeting & Remnants of Everyday Life Exhibition Opening

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Members-Only Annual Meeting from 5:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m

Talk by Dr. Ellen Gruber Garvey on the history of scrapbooking, 5:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Remnants of Everyday Life explores the stories behind the production, dissemination, and preservation of ephemera, and shows how its evolution, while being intrinsically tied to changes in mass production technologies, corresponded with shifts in cultural values and priorities

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Juneteenth: African American Women in the Era of Emancipation

Friday, June 21, 2013

Reception at 4:30 p.m.

Panel at 5:00 p.m.

Our conference serves as a recognition of Juneteenth—one of the oldest known celebrations commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. This news came two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued and now often serves as a symbolic day of freedom. This year’s theme, “African American Women in the Era of Emancipation,” explores the Civil War experiences of free and enslaved black women as they challenged slavery and defined freedom on the front lines.

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Ligaments: Everyday Connections of Colonial Economies
Thirteenth Annual PEAES Conference

Thursday, October 24 - Friday, October 25, 2013