Historic Brighton 23rd Annual Meeting &Program to Follow: “Rudolf Kingslake: A Life in Optics”
- Presented by Martin L. Scott
- Sunday, September 18, 2022 – following 2:00 p.m. Annual Meeting
- Brickstone Wintergarden
- 1523 Elmwood Avenue
- Admission: Free
Our September program will feature author Martin L. Scott, who will discuss his recent book on the life and achievements of Rudolf Kingslake – UR professor, lens designer and engineer. Professor Kingslake maintained simultaneous careers in academia and industry as director of optical design for the Eastman Kodak Company.
Martin L. Scott is former director of scientific imaging at the Eastman Kodak Company, and built the Kingslake Archive online register at Rush Rhees Library’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Rochester.
Historic Brighton Spring Event:
“From One to Over 8,000 With Vision and Purpose: Dr. Edward Atwater and Building the AIDS Education Posters Collection”
- Presented by Jessica Lacher-Feldman
- Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 1:00 PM
- Brighton Memorial Library
- Community Room
- 2300 Elmwood Avenue
- Admission: Free
For our May event, Jessica Lacher-Feldman will give a presentation on the life and legacy of physician and medical historian Dr. Edward Atwater (1926-2019), who built the largest collection of AIDS Education Posters in the world.
Dr. Edward C. Atwater (1926-2019) was a visionary collector, physician, and medical historian. He recognized at the beginning of the AIDS crisis that these posters were representative of social history and they needed to preserved and made accessible for scholarship and study in order to better understand the enormous cultural and social shifts that HIV/AIDS brought to the forefront across the world.
The collection documents efforts to educate and inform groups and individuals about HIV/AIDS in over 130 countries and in over 75 languages and dialects, dating from the very dawn of the global AIDS pandemic in 1982 to the present.
About the Speaker: Jessica Lacher-Feldman is a Historic Brighton Board Member and Manager of Exhibitions and Special Projects , River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester, and is curator of the AIDS Education Collection.
Historic Brighton Spring Event:
Museum-Quality Storage for Photos & Memorabilia
- Presented by Kate Jacus
- Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 1:30 PM
- Brighton Memorial Library
- Friends Learning Center
- 2300 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618
- Free admission
We all understand the importance of saving family history, and along with photos, most people are also saving other documents and artifacts for future generations to enjoy. These preservation goals require specialized products and procedures. In this hands-on workshop, we will share professional techniques for museum-quality storage solutions for photographs and memorabilia.
We’ll talk about a roadmap called “The 4Ds” for your preservation project: Decide, Document, Digitize, and Determine (a storage plan). This framework can help you break down a project into manageable chunks. We’ll also delve briefly into the science of what it means for materials to be “archival” and explore museum standards for the storage of photographs and memorabilia.
Kate Jacus is the Marketing Coordinator for Archival Methods, a Rochester, NY-based manufacturer of archival storage and presentation supplies. Her own photo organizing business started in 2016, is The Photo Curator, LLC. Her love of organizing and expertise in archival storage stems from her Masters in Museum Studies and 13-year career in the museum world, including 8 years as Collections Manager at The Strong. She is also the Director of Membership for The Photo Managers, the trade association for photo organizers.
