“A disagreeable book but as a specimen of color printing by M. Gautier d’Agoty is very fine—is only to the catalogue. The print of the Turtle is a fine print. L. N. Marrs. May 1913 belongs in coll of Color Prints in Boston.”
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“Planche C. des Quadrepedes”
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This print of a turtle is one of several color illustrations found in Gautier D’Agoty’s Observations sur L’Histoire Naturelle, sur la Physique et sur la Peinture, a periodical published in Paris between 1752 and 1756. In a note found in the front of the volume, the donor Laura Norcross Marrs singled out this print as remarkable in what was otherwise a “disagreeable book.”
See the Mezzotint up close here.
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To Live Like John Quincy Adams
The MHS podcast, The Object of History, will have a new episode out 15 May 2023, To Live Like John Quincy Adams. In this episode, we find out what it takes to live like a historical figure and how collections like the Adams Papers can help us rethink daily life in both the past and the present.
Listen to previous podcasts here, or wherever you regularly listen to podcasts.
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Award-Winning and Newsworthy Staff
MHS Assistant Director of Education Kate Melchior received the Debra Miller Award for Excellence in Museum Education from the Massachusetts Council for Social Studies on 1 May. The award committee notes that the award is “presented to the most gifted educators in our state who commit themselves to the development of students’ capacities for critical and historical thinking and active citizenship.”
MHS Series Editor of The Papers of John Adams, Sara Georgini, was interviewed for an article in Contingent Magazine. In How Sara Georgini Does History, Sara talks about working with the Adams Papers at the MHS, book projects—past and present, and what made her want to become a historian. Read the article here.
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Monday, 8 May | 6:00 PM
Patricia Strach, University of Albany, and Kathleen Sullivan, Ohio University.
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Tuesday, 9 May | 5:00 PM
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Radcliffe Institute, and Tiya Miles, Harvard University, with comment by Julie Dobrow, Tufts University.
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Wednesday, 10 May | 6:00 PM
In partnership with the South End Historical Society.
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Wednesday, 17 May, at 1:00 PM: Treasures Tour with Peter Drummey, Chief Historian & Stephen T. Riley Librarian.
Friday, 19 May, at 12:00 PM: Virtual Author Hour with Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Director of Research.
Saturday, 20 May, at 1:00 PM: Treasures Tour with Peter Drummey, Chief Historian & Stephen T. Riley Librarian.
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Registration and Events
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Click below to view the latest video, Mourning the Presidents: Loss & Legacy in American Culture, with Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky. Enjoy more videos by subscribing to the MHS YouTube channel after you view the video.
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