This short, three-day course will introduce participants to these and related questions with a series of focused investigations centered within the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the …
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 3-8 August 2025 Format: in person, Newberry Library in Chicago, IL Fee: $1,495 This course will provide a general overview of the history of …
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 16–21 July 2023 Format: in person, American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA Fee: $1,395 This seminar will explore the relationship between African American print …
This course will focus on early African American print culture in the United States during the nineteenth century. We begin with an overview of American print culture studies generally, focusing …
Course Length: 6 hours Format: Online This course will explore the history of the antebellum American book by looking at three important events in the history of publishing in the …
We will cover the nineteenth-century origins of duplication, common duplicating processes like spirit, mimeography, xerography, and offset—as well as more unusual methods like verifax, electrofax, and Ozalid—through modern technologies such …
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 23–28 July 2023 Format: in person, University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Philadelphia, PA Fee: $1,395 This course will focus on the emergence of a …
Starting in the 1950s and continuing to the present, this course will consider how this genre was formed and what influences it. We will take time to discuss the readings, …
“The course gave me a different perspective on early photography and the development of the photobook.” — 2017 student This course will explore the evolution of the photographically-illustrated book from the …
This course will introduce students to the manufacturing methods, publishing practices, distribution networks, and use of books, periodicals, and other printed materials in the United States during the industrial era, …
This course is designed for librarians, booksellers, collectors, scholars, and others who seek an introductory understanding of how to recognize, evaluate and describe the physical aspects and textual significance of …
This course considers the codex book as a work of deliberate, self-conscious art production from the very beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. Taking William Blake as the …
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