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Now Online

 

Select images from the Hartford History Center’s Hartford Times collection are now online at Treasures of Connecticut Libraries.

For information on this week’s image, please click here.

 

Hartford History Center presents an afternoon with Anne Farrow, veteran journalist and co-author of the seminal work Complicity, How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery (Random House/Ballantine Books, 2005). Anne  was nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize, and is now an editor for the Encyclopedia of  Connecticut History Online, a project of the Connecticut Humanities Council, the Office of the State Historian and a consortium of Connecticut libraries and museums.  She was a lead writer for two newspaper investigations into New England slavery, both published in The Hartford Courant. Currently at work on a book about slavery and New England memory, Anne has a master’s degree in English literature. An excerpt from her recent work can be seen in the fall issue of the online history journal Common-Place at www.common-place.org  This program is free and open to the public.

Now Available in the Hartford History Center  – Enjoy a set of 18 distinctive note cards showcasing images archived in the library’s historical Hartford Collection- yours with a $20.00 donation to the Hartford Public Library. Contact the center now to place your order for the holidays!

Treasure Books: Selections from the Caroline M. Hewins Collection of Children’s Literature

Now through May 2010

Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

“Treasure Books: Selections from the Caroline M. Hewins Collection of Children’s Literature,” is an exhibition developed by guest curator Leonard Marcus to showcase children’s picture books from the library’s Caroline M. Hewins Collection. Hewins is considered Hartford’s “First Lady of the Library,” coming to Hartford in 1875 as librarian of the Hartford Young Men’s Institute, the predecessor to Hartford Public Library. She held this position for 50 years, leading the 19th century private subscription association as it grew into a thriving 20th century public library. Along the way, she earned a national reputation as an imaginative, spirited and dedicated leader, especially well regarded for her library work with children. The books exhibited in “Treasure Books” were published in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. Marcus is considered the leading historian on American children’s literature and has written many highly acclaimed books about children’s literature and the authors and artists who create them including “Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts”; “Minders of Make-Believe”; “Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon”; “Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom”; and, “The Wand in the Word”.  He has curated exhibitions on children’s books and their illustration at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art; New York Public Library; Vassar College Library; the Boston Athenaeum; and, Enoch Pratt Free Library.

NEIGHBORHOOD DAYS – SOUTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS

Month of October and November

Tuesday-Saturday, 1:00-5:00 p.m.

Select images from the Southside Neighborhood News collection of Hartford’s storied ’70s, ’80s and ‘90s on display. Help us recognize family and friends in this exciting new collection that provides a window into Hartford’s contemporary history.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: FDR, NATIONAL POLICY – LOCAL IMPACT

Saturday, October 24, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Join us for a conversation with Cynthia M. Koch, director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York and Connecticut State Archivist Mark Jones, project coordinator for the Connecticut Federal Art Project Artists. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal cultural programs marked the U.S. government’s first big, direct investment in cultural development. The largest and most important of the New Deal cultural programs, and the favorite of Eleanor Roosevelt, was the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a massive employment relief program launched in the spring of 1935. Cynthia Koch and Mark Jones will discuss FDR’s national policy and how it played out on the local scene in the context of art and artists in the Hartford area. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Eugene Leach, creator of the American Studies program at Trinity College.