June Audubon Page-Turning

Name: June Audubon Page-Turning
Start: 2023-06-02T12:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-06-02T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

by George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives

Cultural Community Building Presentation

Fri, Jun 2, 2023

12:30 PM – 1 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

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Join Special Collections & Archives staff for the monthly page-turning of John James Audubon's double-elephant folio edition of 'Birds of America.' In addition to it's magnificent size, this book features Audubon's drawings of birds (engraved, printed, and hand-colored) and is displayed one page at a time. Bowdoin's copy is one of 120 known copies. Guest speaker TBD.

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