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Proposed topics include searching the catalog, book history, visual culture, and K-12 resources and instruction.
Good Wishes for the Children Rediscovered:
Hans Christian Andersen and the Launch of Sarah Gooll Putnam’s Artistic Career
Hosted by CHAViC
With a presentation by Laura Wasowicz
Thursday, February 4, 2:00 pm EST
Approx. 60 minutes
Topic
In the course of her work at AAS, Laura Wasowicz, the Society's curator of children's literature, recovered the identities of the translator and illustrator of Good Wishes for the Children, a compilation of Hans Christian Andersen stories published in a limited, high-end edition by the Riverside Press in 1873 as a fundraiser for Boston Children’s Hospital. The illustrator was Sarah Gooll Putnam (1851–1912), an upper-class Bostonian who eventually enjoyed a successful career as a portraitist. This ambitious project was spearheaded by Putnam’s friend Adeline A. Bigelow (1842–1915), a fellow socialite who translated the Andersen stories into English from a German edition. In this webinar, Wasowicz will examine how their artistic collaboration provides insight into the opportunities and limitations encountered by gifted women of social means in late nineteenth-century American children’s book publishing. The story of the research that led to their identification will also suggest how collections can be used to recover the histories of other women involved in the book trades.
About Our Host
This webinar is hosted by the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at AAS, which provides opportunities for educators to learn about American visual culture and resources, promotes the awareness of AAS collections, and stimulates research and intellectual inquiry into American visual materials.
Registration
This online event is free, but registration is required.
You will be sent an email with a link and instructions on how to join the event upon registration.
Illustration by Sarah Gooll Putnam from Good Wishes for the Children
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Previous sessions
Amy Tims, AAS Cataloging Initiatives Librarian, periodically has hosted webinars on various aspects of searching and navigating AAS’s catalog (http://catalog.mwa.org/).
These webinars have been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor