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Virtual presentations from the Prints & Photographs Division start this week with a Thursday evening highlight of the WPA Poster Collection.
Object Lesson: The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection
In the 1930s, many New Deal administrators believed art should be a part of American daily life. Join Reference Librarian Hanna Soltys for an object lesson looking at the Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division. This collection is a Library favorite and totals over 900 posters that put artists back to work for travel, tourism, recreation, and public health programs among others. The presentation will discuss collection history, the different types of posters you can find, and how to download high resolution images. This session will be recorded.
Thursday, July 7th, 2022 – 7:00 – 8:00 pm (Eastern)
Finding Pictures: Using and Making Online Finding Aids
Archivists take you behind-the-scenes in an introduction to the Prints & Photographs Division’s online finding aids, documents that describe and inventory archival collections. We will cover how you can use finding aids to dig deeper into our collections and find pictures, architectural drawings, cartoons, and more! We’ll also dive into tactics and tools on how they are created and coded using EAD3 (Encoded Archival Description), an XML (Extensible Markup Language) designed for building web-based archival finding aids. The same session will be offered twice.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022, 12 noon – 1:00 pm (Eastern)
Wednesday, July 20th, 2022, 3:00 – 4:00 pm (Eastern)
Swann Fellow Lecture: Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico
Dr. Rosalía Romero, an assistant professor of art history at Pomona College, presents prints and photographs from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 that depicted the unique landscapes and socio-political dynamics of the U.S.-Mexico border. The talk will highlight works by U.S and Mexican cartoonists in the Prints & Photographs Division and explain their importance to anarchist modern art and visual culture. Anarchist artworks envisioned the border as a productive region for the fomentation of revolution, the construction of utopias, and the development of an anarchist theory of art during this period. This research unearths the longer visual history of representing the communities, fortification systems, and politics that continue to be relevant to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands today. This event will be recorded.
Monday, July 18th, 2022, 3:00 – 4:00 pm (Eastern)