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As part of my PhD research I am taking a close look at the first Kodak cameras 1888-90, gleaning what I can from photographical journals, biographical material about George Eastman and promotional literature.

For illustration purposes, I would like a good copy of the diagram of the film path and mechanism in the first of the Kodak cameras, to be found in the manual which went with them. I am aware a copy of the 1888 manual is downloadable from Butkus.org, but this PDF only provides me with a low-quality image.

If anyone on BPS is in possession of an original copy, or knows another accesible source of one, or another place I could find a better resolution version of the image, I would be immensely grateful for the help. The diagram is below.

Many thanks

Peter Domankiewicz

This is the story of Francis Frith, a Victorian adventurer, pioneer photographer and visionary businessman, and his amazing legacy – a unique archive of over 300,000 photographs illustrating the changing face of Britain over 110 years.

Between 1856 and 1860 Francis Frith made three arduous expeditions to Egypt and the Holy Land, where he took some of the earliest photographs ever seen of those regions. He then founded his own photographic publishing company and began an incredible project – the creation of what is widely considered to be the first extensive photographic record of Britain.

For the next 30 years he and his company photographers travelled around the country recording thousands of cities, towns and villages, landmarks, historic buildings, coasts and countryside in photographs to sell to tourists as souvenir prints. After Frith’s death in 1898 his successors continued his project into the 20th century, by which time the Frith company had become one of Britain’s leading postcard publishers. By the time it closed down in 1970 it had created an unrivalled record of Britain over more than a century of change, which is now recognised as a photographic collection of national significance.

• Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Francis Frith’s birth in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1822, this book tells the story of his eventful life and is also a celebration of the extraordinary photographic legacy of this remarkable man, which is now viewed by millions of people
  around the world on the Frith website francisfrith.com.
• Extensively researched, it contains new information about his Middle Eastern expeditions, including the identification of a number of his companions and extracts from letters written by one of them on their journey through the Sinai Peninsula.
• Lavishly illustrated with over 500 period photographs, ranging from the monuments of ancient Egypt to nostalgic images of the people and places of Britain between 1860 and 1970.
• An absorbing read for anyone interested in the early history of photography, travel and exploration in the 19th century and Egyptology, as well as British history.

A Grand Spell of Sunshine. The Life and Legacy of Francis Frith
Julia Skinner
The Francis Frith Collection
£35. 400 pages, paperback
ISBN: 978-1-84589-924-0
email: sales@francisfrith.co.uk
web: www.francisfrith.com

Charlotte Connelly has been appointed Head Curator of the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. She replaces Dr Geoff Belknap who has moved to a new role as Keeper in Edinburgh. The post was advertised earlier this year. 

Charlotte is currently Museum Curator at the The Polar Museum, Cambridge. She holds a MSc in Museum Studies, a BSc History and Philosophy of Science and has just submitted her PhD thesis.  She previously worked at the Science Museum between 2010 and 2014. See: https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/people/connelly/ 

She tweets at @curatorconnelly

William Henry Fox Talbot, the English inventor of photography, created around 15,000 photographs in the nineteenth century, most of them attempts to produce compelling scientific documents or pictorial records of the world around him. However, among those that have survived are also prints in which an image has been obscured, obliterated or simply failed to register.

Borrowing its intriguing title from a poem written by Talbot, this book features twenty-four of these prints, his most experimental photographs. Originally intended as test prints or creative exercises, all that remains on these shaped pieces of photographic paper are chemical stains or imprinted patterns or shapes. Offered to the reader as enigmatic physical artefacts, these failed or ruined photographs are here reanimated as objects of beauty, mystery and promise, as artworks that speak of photography’s most fundamental attributes and potentials.

An accompanying essay illustrated with comparative images places these photographs in a broad historical context leading up to the present, revealing what relevance Talbot’s experiments have to contemporary concepts of the art of photography.

The Forms of Nameless Things: Experimental Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot
Geoffrey Batchen
Bodleian Libraries, November 2022
ISBN: 9781851245932
£30

The Association for Art History has a call for forty 2023 Annual Conference sessions held in-person at UCL. The Association for Art History’s 2023 Annual Conference is open to all and you don’t need to be a member to attend or present a paper. The call closes on 4 November. 

There are many sessions which include photography, would benefit from a photography perspective, or are focused on photography. These include: 

The conference will take place at UCL, London, from 12-14 April 2023. 

• Photography and 21st-Century Migration
• Toward a Media History of Art and Design Education
• Victorian Colour Revolution: The Nineteenth-Century Chromatic Turn
• Remaking Femininity: Women’s Portraiture in Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture

All session calls are here: https://forarthistory.org.uk/conference/2023-annual-conference/

The Edward Reeves Archive in association with the Photography and the Archive Research Centre at UAL and Edward Reeves Photography present Stories seen through a glass plate: in their footsteps, an exhibition of historic photographs of Lewes and its people displayed on lightboxes throughout the town centre during September and October 2022.

• A new exhibition for 2022 from the Edward Reeves Archive. A century of life in Lewes, showing townsfolk in the places they lived, worked, relaxed and celebrated. Walk in their footsteps.
• Displaying new unseen images from the Edward Reeves archive.
• Accompanying exhibition, Lewes Town Hall: A building in focus, examines the crucial role of the building in town life.

The Edward Reeves Archive lightbox exhibition returns in 2022 with Stories seen through a glass plate: in their footsteps. Including formal portraits taken in the Reeves’ Studio as well as Lewes street scenes, it reveals the world in which the subjects lived and the people they may have encountered. Contemporary newspaper reports and guidebooks have provided personal back stories, describing family life, work, and leisure pursuits.

Illustrated with stunning photographs, showing the amazing quality of the images taken from the original glass plates, the lightboxes are placed in locations relevant to the subjects. You will meet Edward Reeves and his daughter Mary Elizabeth, also a photographer, their neighbour Ruth Simmons who married twice and then emigrated to Canada, and from just across the High Street Caroline Napier and Annie Mullens who ran a school for young ladies. In their daily life they may have bumped into Thomas Weston, ‘haircutter and perfumer’ out on his penny farthing bicycle or passed by Edwin Battersby, managing clerk of the Lewes Probate Registry and attempted murderer. Among the street scenes, the witnesses to an early car crash, a town celebration for a coronation that didn’t happen and the lively aftermath of a general election result with the report of eggs thrown and fireworks discharged!

The lightboxes will be available to view until Sunday 23rd October. Brigitte Lardinois, Director of the Photography and the Arts Research Centre at LCC, UAL: “The Edward Reeves Archive project is very important in the history of British photography and I am delighted that with the help of our many volunteers we are able to once again share some of this unique collection.”

Tom Reeves, fourth generation photographer at Edward Reeves Photography: “It is really exciting that, through the efforts of our volunteers, we have been able for the first time to search our archive for specific named subjects, so in this exhibition we can include portraits of people exhibited in the windows of the houses that they once occupied. That sheds a fascinating light on a past Lewes and its people.”

Lewes Town Hall: A building in focus Lewes Town Hall: A building in focus. This additional exhibition at Lewes Town Hall displays photographs from it’s opening in 1893 to the current day, shows the central role the building has always played in the social and commercial life of the town. A Royal visit, concerts and theatricals, meetings and tea parties, and a remarkable exhibition of early electric lights and equipment can all be seen.

Stories seen through a glass plate: in their footsteps
Thursday 29th September – Sunday 23rd October 2022
Lewes High Street, Cliffe High Street & surrounding area
Exhibition maps available at the Lewes Tourist Information Centre, Lewes Town Hall, Edward Reeves Photography
(159 High Street) and many of the host shops and businesses.

Lewes Town Hall: A building in focus
Thursday 29th September – Saturday 15th October
Monday – Saturday, 10.00am – 4.00pm
Baxter Corridor, Lewes Town Hall (High Street Entrance)

Established in 1855, Edward Reeves Photography is believed to be the oldest continuously operated photographic
studio in the world. It houses an archive of over 250,000 glass plates in addition to over 400,000 images on film
and in the form of digital files. With much of the original paperwork intact, this archive is a unique record of daily
life in and around Lewes, and of the history of commercial photographic practice. The Victorian studio is still in
daily use and the business is now owned and run by Edward Reeves’ great grandson Tom Reeves with his wife Tania
Osband. For more information, visit www.reevesarchive.com.

Images: © Edward Reeves Photography

The University of Manchester's Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine has relaunched its seminar programme which will be both live and online via Zoom. On 22 November Dr Alexander Medcalf will look at the World Helath Organisation's photography archive. As the quote in the title suggests, over almost half a century the WHO invested heavily in procuring photographic material and showcasing it in magazines, newspapers and at exhibitions around the world.

Dr Alexander Medcalf, Department of History, University of York
22 November 2022 at 1600 (GMT)
"The most extensive photographic collection in the world": seeing health "through the eyes" of the WHO, 1948-1990  
Abstract and further details
Register for free: https://blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2022/10/01/chstm-research-seminar-22-november-2022/

What are photographs ‘doing’ in museums? Why are some photographs valued and others not? Why are some photographic practices visible and not others? What value systems and hierarchies do they reflect?

What Photographs Do explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. It focuses not on formal collections of photographs as accessioned objects, be they ‘fine art’ or ‘archival’, but on what might be termed ‘non-collections’: the huge number of photographs that are integral to the workings of museums yet ‘invisible’, existing outside the structures of ‘the collection’. These photographs, however, raise complex and ambiguous questions about the ways in which such accumulations of photographs create the values, hierarchies, histories and knowledge-systems, through multiple, folded and overlapping layers that might be described as the museum’s ecosystem.

These photographic dynamics are studied through the prism of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, an institution with over 150 years' engagement with photography’s multifaceted uses and existences in the museum. The book differs from more usual approaches to museum studies in that it presents not only formal essays but short ‘auto-ethnographic’ interventions from museum practitioners, from studio photographers and image managers to conservators and non-photographic curators, who address the significance of both historical and contemporary practices of photography in their work. As such this book offers an extensive and unique range of accounts of what photographs ‘do’ in museums, expanding the critical discourse of both photography and museums.

What Photographs Do. The making and remaking of museum cultures
Edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious
£30.00
ISBN: 9781800082991
Publication: November 21, 2022
£30 (paperback); £50 (hardback); £0 (open access download)
Details: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/192313?_pos=1&_sid=42025d3ac&_ss=r

Robert Pols’ Early Photographic Studios website, that is a directory of the photographers of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland and Suffolk between 1840 and 1916, has now moved to www.earlyphotostudios.uk  It includes a list of Robert’s publications and a discount code to purchase these from the Federation of Family History Societies.

To be held at Edinburgh Napier University School of Arts and Creative Industries in collaboration with the City Art Centre Edinburgh and The Glasgow School of Art The symposium will take place in Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh Napier University, on the 2/3 February 2023, with an optional cultural programme on 4 February 2023. 

Bradford’s National Science and Media Museum has appointed Agents of Change (AOC) to design two new galleries for its Sound and Vision project. AOC will work with the museum’s project team to conceptualise and design the two new galleries, which are hoped to showcase key objects and stories from the museum’s collections of photography, film, television, animation, videogames, and sound technologies. The £6 million galleries are due to open in 2024. 

The museum has also commissioned AOC to review and update its Masterplan to reflect the development of the Sound and Vision galleries and the improvements to visitor flow with the installation of a new lift. With support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the new project has been developed alongside local communities, with the goal of creating a new ‘cultural cornerstone’ as Bradford becomes UK City of Culture in 2025.

Jo Quinton-Tulloch, director of the National Science and Media Museum, said: “By working collaboratively with our local audiences, the development of the new galleries will connect our community to our world class collections and truly reflect that Bradford is the youngest and one of the UK’s most diverse and fastest growing cities. The project will also give us the vital opportunity to realise the Science Museum Group’s mission of making STEM education open for all, helping to close some of the disparities caused by the pandemic and providing fantastic opportunities for our communities.”

Currently in the development phase thanks to support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Sound and Vision will inspire future generations by providing wider access to world class collections of photography, radio, film, TV, sound and digital technologies. In the lead up to City of Culture in 2025, Sound and Vision will reenergise Bradford’s cultural offer through three distinct focus areas— the internationally significant Science Museum Group’s collections, STEM and working collaboratively, increasing participation with the collections.

The new galleries will explore key stories which are relevant to all our lives, including the creation of the world’s first photograph; Louis Le Prince’s ground-breaking work in moving images and film; and the forgotten pioneer of the pixel who created the building blocks of digital photography. The project will also work with local communities through a detailed activity plan, including opportunities to collect community stories, inspiring more people to reimagine their relationship with STEM and support them with opportunities for employment and upskilling.

See: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aoc-wins-contest-for-new-galleries-at-bradford-science-and-media-museum

 https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/about-us/sound-and-vision-project

The concept is outlined here: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT006269%2F1#/tabOverview

The RPS Historical Group has a number events both live and online coming up which may be of interest to BPH readers: 

• 4 October. The Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group, in collaboration with Sheffield Museums Trust and Museum Friends, is delighted to invite you to Meet the Author.  Did you know that the first moving pictures were created in Yorkshire? Internationally renowned author Paul Fischer will read from his new book The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures and discuss this true tale of obsession, murder and the movies, with Geoff Blackwell ARPS. He will answer questions from guests and the evening will conclude with a book signing.
  https://events.rps.org/4LrdQ66/5a2N4L3Vy8h
  
  
• 25 October. The 2022 Hurter and Driffield Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Jennifer Tucker of Wesleyan University, Connecticut. Her lecture is entitled: Moving Beyond the 'Mug Shot': Expanding the Frame for the Study of Forensic Photography in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Professor Tucker will address a neglected topic in visual legal studies; that is, the rising use and circulation of photographs for gathering evidence and witness testimony during the 1860s and 1870s, when colonial and metropolitan courts were redefining the rights and rituals of law. Her talk will explore some of the factors that changed how photographs were used as courtroom evidence during the second half of the nineteenth century, years that spanned the rapid global expansion of photography and the origins of new forms of metropolitan and colonial information-sharing. Considering two areas of the law, in particular, that were vigorously discussed -- identity impersonation and pollution laws - this paper presents new findings about how photographs were used as nineteenth-century legal evidence. She will present findings that suggest that changes in popular perceptions of photography affected material and social practices of photography both in and outside of nineteenth-century civil and criminal courtrooms.
  https://events.rps.org/4LrdQ66/5a2N4L3VvLE
  
• 26 October. Physicist Gabriel Lippmann's (1845–1921) photographic process is one of the oldest methods for producing colour photographs. So why do the achievements of this 1908 Nobel laureate remain mostly unknown outside niche circles? In this special presentation to mark the publication of her new book on Lippmann's colour photography Dr Hanin Hannouch reflects upon his scientific, photographic, and cultural legacy.
  https://events.rps.org/4LrdQ66/5a2N4L3Vwhq
  
• 9 November. Continuing the RPS Historical Group's series of talks looking at collections of photography: Gilly Read FRPS, chair of the Historical Group will introduce Nan Levy, the daughter of Shirley Baker, who will talk about her mother's documentary photography.
  https://events.rps.org/4LrdQ66/5a2N4L3VutM
  

To book click the link above and then 'Register'.

Annie Brassey (1839-1887) was a travel writer and collector. Many of the objects that she collected on her travels around the world in the 1870s and 1880s form part of the World Cultures collection here at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. These were donated to Hastings in 1919 along with the Durbar Hall itself, which she had purchased from the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London. Brassey and her journeys are closely entangled with legacies of the British Empire.

Missing from this donation was Brassey’s collection of photographs. Annie Brassey used new technologies to document her family’s journeys in a way unimaginable to earlier travellers. She purchased commercial, tourist photographs at each destination that she visited, and she learnt how to take her own pictures. Brassey became a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1873 and she had a darkroom fitted on board the Sunbeam, the family’s yacht, to develop and print her work.

Seventy of Brassey’s albums, containing over 5,000 photographs, are now kept in the Huntington Library in California, USA. This exhibition brings a selection of these images back to the museum collection for the first time in over 100 years.

This display has been curated by Sarah French as part of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and the University of Sussex. Find out more at www.doingsofthesunbeam.wordpress.com.

Exhibition: Photographs of a Victorian Voyage: From the Annie Brassey Collection
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, walkway gallery
until 29 January 2023
See: https://www.hmag.org.uk/see-and-do/exhibitions/photographs-of-a-victorian-voyage-from-the-annie-brassey-collection/

My new photo history book "Newbury through the Stereoscope" tells the story of the photographers who photographed my hometown of Newbury in 3D between about 1860 and 1905.  From the earliest commercial photographer to a Primitive Methodist minister who was an avid amateur.

The book is a now and then style book which uses 3D anaglyphs to enable 3D viewing with the included glasses.   All the original cards are also reproduced so that you can also enjoy them fully with a viewer like the LSC Owl.  The little book is 52 pages and contains every image of Newbury I've been able to trace.

I will be giving a talk for the West Berkshire Museum on 19th October at which the book will be available for purchase.  Final selling price tbc.  Tickets for the talk can be booked here West Berkshire Heritage Events

The book will be available from my Etsy store by the end of October. 

The Mohamed Ali Foundation Fellowship is hosted by Durham University and is awarded to early career (post-doctoral) or established scholars. The Mohamed Ali Foundation is a UK charity whose aims include advancing the education of the public in the history of the Islamic World, of Egypt and of the Mohamed Ali Family in particular, especially the period of the reign of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II (1892-1914).

In June 2018 the Mohamed Ali Foundation announced the launch of this Fellowship Programme, and which is established to devote scholarly attention to the Abbas Hilmi II Papers held at Durham University and to make the collection’s strengths more widely known to scholars. It is hoped that the fellows’ work will foster deeper understanding of an important period of Egyptian history, and of a transformative era in East-West relations.

The fellowship programme is based at Durham University and managed by an international Advisory Panel comprising academic subject specialists. The programme began in 2019 with the residency of the first fellow Dr Pascale Ghazaleh of the American University in Cairo: her inaugural lecture is now available online. Fellowships will be awarded over the next 5 years. An Advisory Panel, chaired by Professor Anoush Ehteshami will appoint one or two fellows each year.

Fellows will be early career (post-doctoral) or established scholars. The nature of the collection will often require good reading knowledge of Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, French, and English. The online catalogue of the collection indicates the languages of each file of material.

Fellows will research the Abbas Hilmi II Papers, on an agreed topic, and deliver a lecture at Durham University. Each lecture will ultimately form a chapter in a volume of high quality and original research to be edited by Dr Ghazaleh. In the interim the lectures will be published in the university’s Middle East Papers series. The breadth of material in the Abbas Hilmi II Papers will reward an interdisciplinary approach.  Such is the richness of the photographic material in the archive that fellows are strongly encouraged to highly illustrate their work with examples from the collection.  In order to guide candidate fellows an outline of the collection’s subject strengths is now provided in the fellowship application documentation. This is not intended to be prescriptive and the Advisory Panel will consider alternative suggestions so long as they are well-grounded in the Abbas Hilmi II Papers and this is evidenced in the application proposal.

The Fellowship, tenable in the Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, entitles the holder to full access during their residency to departmental and other University facilities such as Computing and Information Services and the University Library. Accommodation is provided at Durham during the Easter term (late April-late June), but fellows may request to reside elsewhere for the duration of the fellowship. All fellows will visit Durham, if only briefly, in order to deliver their lecture. Lectures and other activities elsewhere during the fellowship will be encouraged.

Fellows who do reside at Durham will also be encouraged to take a full part in academic and collegiate life, delivering the already mentioned lecture and perhaps also contributing to seminars.

Fellows will be awarded an honorarium and accommodation and all meals will be provided for the duration of the fellowship; a research travel grant is also available to each fellow.

Full details: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/school-government-international-affairs/research/fellowships/the-mohamed-ali-foundation-fellowship-programme/

For the second time, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, and Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, invite emerging doctoral and post-doctoral scholars, working in the interdisciplinary field of theory and history of photography, to participate in and contribute to a photo-historical seminar. Next year’s topic is

Archival Absences.  An Incomplete History of Photography
It will be organized and led by Tatjana Bartsch (Bibliotheca Hertziana), Elizabeth Otto (University at Buffalo), Johannes Röll (Bibliotheca Hertziana), and Steffen Siegel (Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen) and is supported by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung, Essen.

Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History
March 20–24, 2023
Deadline for applications: October 20, 2022
Here is a PDF of this call.

Details: https://foto.folkwang-uni.de/de/journal/news/archival-absences/detail/

Ruth Quinn is the new Curator of Photography and Photographic Technology at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. The role was advertised earlier in the year. The new NS+MM post holders of Head Curator and Assistant Curator have yet to be announced. 

Ruth was Programmes Curator at the Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds, from, January 2022, She has a MA in Victorian Studies and a PG Cert in Art Gallery and Museum Studies. She is also registered for a PhD examining aspects of the Saltaire World Heritage site. 

The Photographers’ Gallery presents An Alternative History of Photography: Works from the Solander Collection, a bold new perspective on the history of photography, which will go on display from 7 October 2022 - 19 February 2023. 

As it is conventionally told, the history of photography is a chain of relationships connecting one great maker to the next. From its invention in the UK and Europe, the real history is much more complicated: it is a vast web of interconnected stories stretching from East Asia to West Africa, and from New Zealand to Uzbekistan, and a complex interplay of fine art, scientific, anthropological, documentary and amateur traditions.

Drawn from the Solander Collection, An Alternative History of Photography presents famous works and major artists seen with fresh eyes, whilst giving unknown pictures and newer discoveries the platform they deserve. Bringing together over 130 works, it parallels acknowledged greats with forgotten masters, and lesser-known works with regional champions.

Featuring unexpected images by legendary figures including Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Man Ray, and Edward Weston, the exhibition positions these alongside those of Helen Stuart and John Lindt, early, self-trained practitioner Lady Augusta Mostyn, and African studio photographers Sanlé Sory, Michel Kameni, and Malick Sidibé.

The exhibition also contains many rarities and ‘firsts’, spanning photography’s early decades, with linchpin works by Sir John Herschel, William Henry Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Highlights also include a stunning photographic ‘altarpiece’ by Austrian performance artist Valie Export, shown alongside an extraordinary hand-coloured assisted self-portrait by the Countess of Castiglione. The American West is seen through the eyes of indigenous artist Richard Throssel. Major early works in Australian photography are shown alongside vintage examples from Chile, China, India, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Russia and others.

Contemporary in outlook and visually captivating, An Alternative History of Photography: Works from the Solander Collection is essential for those seeking an introduction to the field, as well as anyone looking for new ways of reconsidering the traditions and reimagining the expected trajectories of photography.

An Alternative History of Photography: Works from the Solander Collection is curated by Philip Prodger and organised by Curatorial Exhibitions in collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a major new book published by Prestel. 

An Alternative History of Photography: Works from the Solander Collection
London, The Photographers' Gallery
7 October 2022-19 February 2023
See: https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/alternative-history-photography-works-solander-collection

Laura Brown has been appointed as Curator, Photography at St Andrews. The role was advertised in the summer and she succeeds Rachel Nordstrom. Laura is an experienced culture and heritage professional working within museums, historic buildings, and university special collections. She has a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts and a post-graduate certificate in Preservation and Archival Practice.

Her previous roles have includes at the American Museum, Bath, at the Footprint Project, Bath Abbey; at teh George Eastman Museum and University of Rochester. 

The Harry Ransom Center, home of the Gernsheim Collection, is accepting applications for its 2023–2024 research fellowship program. The application deadline is November 14, 2022, 5 p.m. CST. More than 60 fellowships are awarded annually by the Ransom Center to support research projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.