Repeat Photography: Understanding our Place through Sequential Observation
Craig S. Campbell, Dr, Youngstown State University
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Pecha Kucha
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- Place
- Memory
Abstract
About 1950, George R. Stewart, Professor of English at Berkeley, photographed many different types of landscapes along Highway 40. Read More
From Davis Bend to Mound Bayou
Sade Turnipseed, Executive Director / History Professor, Khafre, Inc / MVSU
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Panel
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- Material Culture
- Place
- Memory
Abstract
By studying the cotton plantation system of the Old South and operations owned by Joseph and Jefferson Davis, juxtaposed t o the self-determined agency of Benjamin Montgomery, and how Davis Bend became what was considered an “imagined community” in the historical township of Mound Bayou. Read More
George Washington Didn’t Sleep Here: Historic Preservation and the Industrial Midwest
Rebekah Beaulieu, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University
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Panel
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- Preservation
- Place
Abstract
The Midwest became the epicenter of the American industrial sec tor atthe end of the 19th century. Self-made entrepreneurs, such as Frederick Pabst of Milwaukee’s Pabst Brewing Company, erected lavish homes to showcase their societal rise and elite status, which continue to serve as beacons of industrial-era prosperity. Read More