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 October 6, 2011
| Time: | 7-8 p.m. |
| Description: | Molly Schwartzburg, Cline curator of literature, leads a tour of the exhibition "The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920-1925."
As early as 1921, noteworthy visitors to Frank Shay's bookshop, located at 4 Christopher Street in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City, began signing the narrow door that opened onto the store's back room. When the shop closed in 1925, manager Juliette Koenig preserved the door and, with it, a revelatory slice of cultural history. Signed by 240 writers, artists, actors, publishers and other community members, this unusual artifact presents a unique opportunity to reconsider the intersecting communities that made the Village an epicenter of American modernism and literary commerce. |
| Location: | Harry Ransom Center (HRC) |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | Alicia M Dietrich | 512-232-3667 |
| Sponsor: | Harry Ransom Center |
| Admission: | Free |
| Categories: | Everyone, Exhibition, Lifestyle & Community, Tour |
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