As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it moved to the west side tennis center, which is where in 1957, Althea Gibson, the first black person, woman
As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it moved to the west side tennis center, which is where in 1957, Althea Gibson, the first black person, woman
Poster. Poster art. In the 20th century, the Natalia Lauricella is lecturer in the department of art in art history at stanford, one of her areas of expertise is poster design, the late 19th and early 20th centuries natalia received her ph. D. In art history from university of southern california. She has worked as a curatorial assistant of collections exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in new york. Our second speaker is jean cannon, whos a Research Fellow and curator for north american collections at the Hoover Institution Library Archives before to hoover, jean was literary Collections Research associate at the harry ransom, where she cocurated the 2014 exhibition the world at war 1914 to 1918. She was also the curator of hoovers 2017 exhibit, weapon on the wall american political posters of world one. There will be a brief q a the end. Please use the chat any time during the presentation to submit your questions. Prior, you submit your questions. With that, were going to begin wit
I wanted to take a moment and share a little bit about the International Hall of fame and our mission. As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it move
Welcome to the december meeting of the Lincoln Group of the district of columbia. Group was formed in ,he 1930s to honor the memory legacy, principles of Abraham Lincoln, and for over 80 years, we have had programs like this with outside speakers, and our own members, and today, we are very pleased to have three of the members of the Lincoln Group of d. C. Who have authored books related to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. Each of our speakers will talk for about 15 minutes, and then the three will gather here and have an opportunity to take your questions. , so keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. Briefly. Troduce them all three of them. And then have an opportunity to say a few more words about each as they begin their talks. Is a biography of lincoln, subtitled the man who saved america. And it is for the general reader. Show,thor, david, will has some astonishing illustrations. The second book, by elizabeth ex