In the Grand Tradition

NANCY FINLAY is consulting curator for the Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library. She has curated seventeen exhibitions, published a variety of essays, and edited several books and catalogues, including Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, 1830-1880, and Artists of the Book in Boston, 1890-1910. For many years she was curator of graphics for the Connecticut Historical Society. She has worked as Print Specialist at The New York Public Library, as Associate Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and as Assistant to the Curator in the Princeton University Library's Graphic Arts Collection. The Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library is the museum and archive for the library and holds a growing multi-media compilation of more than 500,000 books, maps, photographs, works of art, digital assets and municipal records that convey 300-plus years of community life in Connecticut's capital city.