Thursday February 24, 2005 at the Amon Carter Museum Library Director, Allen Townsend, will discuss the works from the Carter library’s collections on view. Townsend will focus on the illustrators and the subjects that inspired them. The event will be held in the exhibition, Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth-Century American Color-Plate Books and will begin at 6PM.

Approximately 20 of the books on view in this special exhibition are from the Carter’s library, which holds many important rare volumes from the 19th as well as 20th centuries. In fact, William S. Reese, the world-renowned book collector and associate curator of the exhibition, has compiled a list of the “top ten” 19th-century American color books, and the Carter’s library holds editions of seven of these.

Admission is free.