Are arsenic and other heavy metals really found in old books? How common are they? How dangerous are they? Why were they used at all? Melissa Tedone, lead conservator of the Poison Book Project, will share the colorful history of Victorian bookbinding and its legacy on our bookshelves today. The Poison Book Project is an interdisciplinary research initiative at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and the University of Delaware.
About the Speaker: Dr. Melissa Tedone is Assistant Professor in the University of Delaware Department of Art Conservation and Associate Director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC). She also co-founded the Bibliotoxicology Working Group (BibTox), an international cohort of over 90 conservators, scientists, librarians, and health and safety professionals working to define safer practices for managing toxic library and archives collections.
Admission is Pay as You Wish! Your donation is greatly appreciated. All proceeds benefit the development of future programming and the preservation of the History Center and its collections. The History Center is home to over 750,000 manuscripts, 100,000 photographs, and 70,000 artifacts. Your donation helps us to preserve and share those resources.
Presentation is via Zoom, and will be recorded and available for 7 days for all registered participants. We will email out a Zoom link the day of the presentation, and email a link to the recording within 24 hours. Note: the Zoom link emailed out the day of the presentation only takes you to the live presentation; the link emailed out the day after will contain the recorded version.
The History Matters Speaker Series is made possible through the generous support of The Haverford Trust Company.
Register here:
https://buytickets.at/chestercountyhistorycenter/1832653
You may also like the following events from Chester County History Center:
|
