Join Historic New England on June 21, from 6:00 -8:00 p.m. for an awards reception honoring the winners of the seventh annual Prize for Collecting Works on Paper.
Harry J. Ashe, M.D. M.P.H., is a retired physician whose personal collection of books and ephemera presents a continuous narrative of New Englanders and Americans in China and the China Trade. Spanning from 1792 through 1894, Dr. Ashe's collection has been used as a resource for students from Ipswich, Massachusetts, to Macao, China.
Katherine C. Grier, professor of history and director of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Delaware, collects a wide range of ephemera related to the history of pets in American culture. Through her book, Pets in America: A History, and exhibition, Pets in America: The Story of Our Lives with Animals at Home, she helped legitimize pets as a topic of historical study.
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Richard J.S. Gutman, director and curator of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson and Wales University, has built a collection based on the history of the American roadside diner, which originated in New England 144 years ago. His collection of archival photos, architectural drawings and blueprints, advertisements, postcards, matchbooks, menus, and more helped popularize the study of vernacular commercial and roadside architecture. He is the author of American Diner Then and Now.
The event is at the Lyman Estate, 185 Lyman Street, Waltham, Mass. Please RSVP by June 14 by emailing ProgramInfo@HistoricNewEngland.org or calling 617-994-6678.
