Virtual Program- Victorian Era Women and a 140-Year-Old-Children's Photo Album
Thursday, May 11, 6:00 p.m.
In 2014, the Brookline Historical Society was given a tiny photo album — 3” wide by 3.75” high — with postage stamp-sized photos of 48 Brookline and Boston children, most of them girls. Written inside the front cover was a name, Mamie Williams, and a date, March 16, 1882. Who were these children? What was the connection between them? What became of them as adults? And why were the photos so small? Join Ken Liss, President of the Brookline Historical Society, to learn how research led to answers to these questions and to some fascinating stories about Brookline and Boston women in the Victorian era, and about a particular type of 19th century photograph called the “gem tintype.”
Ken Liss has been president of the Brookline Historical Society since 2009. He researches, writes, and gives presentations and walking tours covering many aspects of Brookline’s history. Ken is a retired librarian who most recently served as Head of Instruction at the Boston University Libraries from 2014-2021. He had previously served as a librarian at Boston College and the Harvard Business School. Ken blogs about Brookline history at https://brooklinehistory.blogspot.com and contributes to the website of the Brookline Historical Society.
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