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Envisioning Waterville: A Photographic and Postcard History
October 17, 2017, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Free
The Waterville Public Library is partnering with the Maine Humanities Council, the Margaret Chase Smith Foundation and the Mid-Maine Global Forum to present a three-part speakers series, The World in Your Library. Tonight's presentation is the third of three.
In this richly illustrated presentation, Libby Bischof, Associate Professor of History and Department Chair at the University of Southern Maine, will examine Waterville's history through historic postcards and photographs. Audience members will be asked to reflect upon change over time, especially in light of the present revitalization of the downtown area.
Libby Bischof explores American society through the lens of history — and the lens of a camera. A nineteenth-century American cultural historian, Professor Bischof specializes in the history of photography, particularly in Maine. Recently she co-curated the exhibition Maine Moderns: Art in Sequinland, 1900-1940 at the Portland Museum of Art with Senior Curator Susan Danly. The show won the critic’s choice award for best Historic Show in the 2011 New England Art Awards. Her other research interests include Maine history, modernism, how friendship informs cultural production, and nineteenth-century New England women writers.
Location: Waterville Public Library, 73 Elm Street, Waterville, 872-5433, www.watervillelibrary.org.