Events in November 2025
Thinking of attending the ABAA Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair in November 2025? Join us for a guided tour! The Saturday 8 November tour will be led by BSA member Kelly Bullard, Assistant Curator of Printing & Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Boston Book Fair Lecture - Visibility Through Invisibility: Black Librarianship in the Early 20th Century
By Erica Ciallela, Instruction & Outreach Librarian, Schlesinger Library, Harvard
Join librarian and former Belle da Costa Greene curatorial fellow Erica Ciallela for a discussion about Black librarians, including Catherine Latimer, Dorothy Porter Wesley, and Greene, that will explore how each left a legacy, and see how current librarians build on their foundations.
Dorothy B. Porter photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951 ©Van Vechten Trust/Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
