Cambridge Open Archives Tours
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davis_squareI just saw this today, and it starts Monday - so if you're interested, you better RSVP fast!
This July, Cambridge, Mass., residents and visitors will be given a rare opportunity—the chance to see inside nine different archives. The third annual Open Archives Tour will feature tours of private, City, and Harvard University archives on three separate days. This year, the event's theme is Cambridge in the 1860s, and each archive will delve into its collections to display related materials, including rarely seen photographs and new research.
"This is a unique opportunity to see some of the rare items from our collections, see the spaces where our archivists process this material, and talk to the professionals who have a deep and passionate understanding of this history," said Gavin W. Kleespies of the Cambridge Historical Society. Alyssa Pacy of the Cambridge Room at the Public Library added, "Cambridge is a really unusual city in terms of the number of organizations that are collecting and holding archival material, and this is an amazing chance to peek behind the scenes in nine of these institutions."
The following institutions will participate:
Cambridge City Clerk's Office
Cambridge Historical Commission
Cambridge Historical Society
Cambridge Public Library
Harvard University Archives
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
For additional information, please visit www.cambridgearchives.org
I'm not involved in this event, so I have no further information on it.
This July, Cambridge, Mass., residents and visitors will be given a rare opportunity—the chance to see inside nine different archives. The third annual Open Archives Tour will feature tours of private, City, and Harvard University archives on three separate days. This year, the event's theme is Cambridge in the 1860s, and each archive will delve into its collections to display related materials, including rarely seen photographs and new research.
"This is a unique opportunity to see some of the rare items from our collections, see the spaces where our archivists process this material, and talk to the professionals who have a deep and passionate understanding of this history," said Gavin W. Kleespies of the Cambridge Historical Society. Alyssa Pacy of the Cambridge Room at the Public Library added, "Cambridge is a really unusual city in terms of the number of organizations that are collecting and holding archival material, and this is an amazing chance to peek behind the scenes in nine of these institutions."
The following institutions will participate:
Cambridge City Clerk's Office
Cambridge Historical Commission
Cambridge Historical Society
Cambridge Public Library
Harvard University Archives
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
For additional information, please visit www.cambridgearchives.org
I'm not involved in this event, so I have no further information on it.
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Date: 2011-07-09 01:20 pm (UTC)Re: friendly moderator note
Date: 2011-07-09 01:23 pm (UTC)(kidding, obvs)
Re: friendly moderator note
Date: 2011-07-09 01:25 pm (UTC)Looks to me like it starts Monday, not tomorrow (Sunday).
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Date: 2011-07-09 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-10 03:48 am (UTC)Out of curiosity (I didn't see it with a quick look through), is there a mailing list of some sort for notification of this type of event? :)
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Date: 2011-07-10 03:27 pm (UTC)But apparently it was also in the Cambridge Chronicle in late June. So I guess it's just around.
If I see anything similar, I'll try to remember to post it!