Hard Hats & High Heels October 5, 2011 Combs 25 at 4:00 pm with Dr. Heather Huyck Are you currently a Historic Preservation major or maybe thinking about majoring in Historic Preservation? Come learn about what a career in Preservation is like with Dr. Huyck. … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
2011 Historic Preservation Book Prize Winner
October 4, 2011 by
2011 Historic Preservation Book Prize Winner Lois Olcott Price Combs 004, 5:00-6:00pm October 12, 2011 Refreshments served at 4:30 pm outside of Combs 25 Please come and help us welcome the 2011 Historic Preservation book prize winner Lois Olcott Price! There will be a social at 4:30 and then she will be speaking on her book Line, Shade and Shadow:the fabrication and preservation of architectural drawings. Lois is currently the Director of Conservation and Senior conservator of library collections at the Winterthur Museum in Winterthur, DE. She has a Master of Art degree in American Material Culture from the University of Delaware. Her interest in preservation started in 1991 with American architectural drawings. She has also consulted and lectured on many issues related to architectural drawings. … [Read more...]
Guest Speaker: Dr. Heather Huyck
October 4, 2011 by
Please join us on Wednesday October 5 at 7 pm in Lee Hall 412 to hear Dr. Heather Huyck speak on "Revealing Women: Using Tangible Resources to Preserve, Research and Interpret American Women." Dr. Huyck has been a public historian since 1971 and has many specialties, one of them being Women's history. She is currently a visiting associate professor at the College of William & Mary. She also helped edit the book Women's History: Sites and Resources. This event will be co-hosted with the Women and Gender Studies department. … [Read more...]