Contact information
Name:
Office of Alumni Relations
Phone:
610.330.5040 or 800-LAFAYETTE (Outside PA)
Email:
alumni@lafayette.edu
Link for More Information:
When:
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Where:
The Grolier Club, New York, NY
Price:
$50 per person / $25 Young alumni (2006-2016)
You are cordially invited to a reception and viewing of the Grolier Club exhibition. Co-curated by Olga Anna Duhl, Oliver Edwin Williams Professor of Languages, and Diane Windham Shaw, Director of Special Collections and College Archivist, Lafayette College.
This groundbreaking exhibition is designed to offer a more comprehensive look at the man who was a “hero of two worlds”. While Lafayette’s contributions in the areas of politics, diplomacy, and the military have received renewed scholarly and public recognition, his abolitionist activities are not widely known, nor have they been adequately explored in any major exhibition or publication in the last twenty-five years. This exhibition brings into focus Lafayette’s sustained efforts in France, the United States, and South America on behalf of the abolition of slavery.
Co-curators Duhl and Shaw offer a comprehensive view of Lafayette’s activities. Drawn from Lafayette College’s rich collections of 18th and 19th century rare books, manuscripts, paintings, prints, and objects, some of which are on public view for the first time, the approximately 130 works in the exhibition also include loans from Cornell University and the New-York Historical Society.
Business attire required. Please register online by Monday, January 23.
Sponsored by:
Lafayette Alumni Association