Upcoming Events
Each year, the Archives
sponsors a variety of public programs including
scholarly conferences, lectures and book signings,
walking tours and exhibits.
The following events
accompany the book and exhibition Alabama Illustrated: Engravings from
19th-Century Newspapers. Click here to find information
about purchasing a book.
Februrary 2010
Depicting Dixie
Tuesday, February 23, 6:
30p
Central Library
Arrington Auditorium
Dr. Graham Boettcher,
the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art at the
Birmingham Museum of Art, will discuss the Library's
exhibition Alabama
Illustrated: Engravings from 19th-Century Newspapers. He will explain how
illustrated newspapers portrayed Alabama and the South
and how
this portrayal--accurate
or not--formed readers' opinions about people, events,
and industry in Alabama in the 19th century.
March 2010
19th-Century Illustrated
Newspapers as Art
Wednesday, March 3, 12:
00p
Central Library
Arrington Auditorium
Kelsey Scouten Bates,
Assistant Archivist at the Birmingham Public Library
and co-curator of the exhibition Alabama Illustrated: Engravings from 19th
century Newspapers, will discuss the engraving
techniques 19th-century newspaper printers used to
transmit an event, place, or
activity from reality to
illustration in a relatively short period of time. She
will discuss the fine arts techniques illustrators used
in creating their illustrations so that images not only
informed readers, but were fine examples of artistic
skill.
Birmingham Illustrated: Engravings
from 19th-Century Newspapers
Wednesday, March 10, 12:
00p
Central Library
Arrington Auditorium
James L. Baggett,
Archivist at the Birmingham Public Library and
co-curator of the exhibition Alabama Illustrated: Engravings from
19th-Century Newspapers, will share the stories behind
images of Birmingham in the 19th-century national
media.
May 2010
Lecture and book signing
to accompany exhibit at Heflin
Community Arts Center (information forthcoming)
The Exhibit is
currently on view at:
Library Gallery
(October 1 - November
15, 2009)
Current
exhibition schedule:
Fourth Floor Gallery
(February 13 - March 31,
2010)
(May 1 - June 15, 2010)
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