Discover the Past - "Unseen St Louis"

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Evenings & Weekends, History & Culture
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Discover information on historical people, places, or things. 

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When historians visit the archive, they often find weird, surprising, and fun material that they rarely get to share with others…but that ends here!

This event shares the stories of a selection of images and objects from various St. Louis archives that reveal an unknown side of St. Louis history.

The presentation is fun, upbeat, and conversational spanning from the nineteenth century to today, from newspapers and magazines to photography and phonograph records.

About the Presenter:

woman smilingElizabeth Eikmann, PhD is an expert in St Louis history, women's history, and the history of photography. She is a teacher, scholar, and public historian with experience working with museums, public libraries, universities, and the local tourism industry.

She currently serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St Louis where she is working on her book project, In Her Image: Women's Photography in Turn-of-the-Century St Louis, which explores the role of white practitioners of photography in the linking of racial identification and vision.

She has extensive experience as a local tour guide, university instructor, and public educational speaker.

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