2011 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

This spring, VCP at LCP co-directors Rachael D'Agostino and Erika Piola presented on the library's collections of tactile book bindings and stereographs at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Alexandria, Va., May 5-7, 2011.

The talks delivered during a Pecha Kucha session focused on "sensational" and "sensory" special collections and encompassed no more than twenty slides described in less than ten minutes.

Erika Piola, The Beginning of 3-D Entertainment: 19th-Century Stereographs at the Library Company of Philadelphia
Presentation Text (PDF)
Presentation PowerPoint (PDF)

Rachel D'Agostino, Sensational American Book Bindings in the Library Company of Philadelphia: Bearing Witness to the Industrial Revolution and the Gilded Age
Presentation Text (PDF)
Presentation PowerPoint (PDF)