From the Kislak Stacks
Join us for these monthly lunchtime presentations (noon – 1 pm) by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focusing on specific works or small archives/collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.
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Elizabeth Fee, Illustrated: Encountering Her Through Art and Manuscripts in the Fee Papers
Kelin Baldridge, Processing Archivist, Kislak Center Special Collections Processing Center
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This talk, by Kelin Baldridge, Processing Archivist in the Kislak Center Special Collections Processing Center, will introduce former Chief of the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine and dynamic public health historian, Elizabeth Fee, through several items from the Elizabeth Fee papers that demonstrate her life, work, and character. Paintings by her artist mother illustrate Fee’s early life as a world-travelling missionary’s daughter and correspondence reveals her professional fortitude and lifelong commitment to advocating for and promoting the stories of marginalized people and groups. By bringing together selected items from her personal papers, this talk will demonstrate what an archive can reveal about a person and their character in addition to giving insight into Elizabeth Fee’s life and work.
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Kelin Baldridge
Kelin Baldridge is a Processing Archivist in the Kislak Center's Special Collections Processing Center. She holds a BA in Art History and French and Francophone Studies from Penn (2017) and an MLIS from Drexel University. Before coming to the Special Collections Processing Center, she worked at the Library of Congress, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Chester County History Center.
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