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Following is the 2003 Conference program in New York.

Conference Program

Friday, 24 October
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street

REGISTRATION

2 p.m. Tour of The Grolier Club

3–4.30 p.m. Session I

Evidence from the Margins: Tracing the Technologies that Produced Indecent 19th-Century American Imprints
Haven Hawley, Georgia Institute of Technology

America’s Lady Audubon
Joy Kiser, National Endowment for the Arts

Fonotypy: Technologies of Writing and Printing
Zak Sitter, Brown University

6 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Facing the Visible and Unfolded Book of the Future: New Frontiers in Printing History
David Pankow
Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology

RECEPTION sponsored by The Grolier Club

Saturday, 25 October
The Grolier Club

REGISTRATION

9 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9.30 a.m. Session II

The Book as a Pot-Luck Offering:
Edna Beilenson, Jane Grabhorn & the Books of The Distaff Side
Kathleen Walkup, Mills College

“Nifty Ideas . . . ” J. L. Frazier's Contribution to the Typography of the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Kay Michael Kramer, The Printery

11 a.m. Session III

Reconsidering Emily Faithfull & the Victoria Press
Julia Gardner
School of Information, University of Michigan

The World-book-words: Archaism as Subversion in Russian Futurist Book Design
Jared Ash

Capital City Printers in Antebellum Alabama
Marcella D. Genz
School of Information Science, Florida State University

12.30–2 p.m. Lunch

2 p.m. Session IV

The Bookbinding Brasses of the Riverside Press
Robert J. Milevski
Princeton University Library

The Art of the Poster: The Role of the Lithographic Artist in the Making of a Poster
Graham Twemlow
University of Reading

An Imperative (L)ink: Early Railways and Printing
Alan M. Levitt

4 p.m. Session V

Letterpress as Image (or Illustration?)
Raymond Nichols, Bill Deering University of Delaware
Mike Kaylor, Washington College

Material Culture & the Internet: The Print History Project
Sydney J. Shep
Victoria University of Wellington

6–7.30 p.m. Center for Book Art
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
Reception and exhibition viewing

Sunday, 26 October
11 a.m. De Vinne Building
393–399 Lafayette Street
Guided tour of the De Vinne building
Irene Tichenor
Biographer of Theodore Low De Vinne

12 noon Brunch Serafina Restaurant

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