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This might be of interest to a few people on MapHist. John Bidwell has,
for some time, co-taught the UVa Rare Book School course on History of
European and American Papermaking
http://www.rarebookschool.org/2010/reading/history/h60/ .
Joel Kovarsky
Original Message
Subject:[EXLIBRIS-L] Papermaking in America
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:39:47 -0400
From: Michael Ryan mtr2...@columbia.edu
Reply-To: Rare book and manuscripts exlibri...@listserv.indiana.edu
To: exlibri...@listserv.indiana.edu
The Columbia University Book History Colloquium invites you to:
October 18, 2011 (TUESDAY)
Butler Library, Room 523
6: 00 PM
John Bidwell
Astor Curator and Department Head, The Morgan Library and Museum
Papermaking in America: A Progress Report
The lecture will summarize the findings in Bidwell?s forthcoming book,
American Paper Mills, 1690-1832, to be published by the American
Antiquarian Society and the University Press of New England, 2012. In
that book Bidwell identifies and describes more than five hundred
paper mills, a large body of evidence providing the means to trace the
growth of the paper trade and its close connections with printing and
publishing ventures in America. Bidwell will present an overview of a
typical paper mill of the period, its personnel, products, and
manufacturing facilities. The statistical sample is large enough that
changes can be detected in the capitalization, configuration, and
productivity of mills during the colonial period, the early national
period, and the beginnings of the industrial era. Bidwell?s talk will
also trace the careers of noteworthy papermakers in an attempt to show
how they got into the business, where they obtained working capital,
how they expected to sell their goods, and why many of them failed.
The lecture will conclude with an account of the first papermaking
machines.
Reception follows.
Michael Ryan
Director
Rare Book Manuscript Library
Columbia University Libraries
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027
(Ph): 212-854-2232
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