Letterlocking: Early American Discoveries with Jana Dambrogio

Sunday, September 13, 2026•2:00 PM4:00 PM

This hands-on class invites participants to explore how individuals folded letters to function as their own creative, and occasionally top-secret, enclosures before (and after) the invention of the envelope in 1830. Use paper, wax, scissors, and seals to reconstruct several historical letterlocking formats found in the Rosenbach’s collection while discussing the relative security, innovation, and elegance of each model.

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2008 - 2010 Delancey St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

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