Historical June 1984 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
“Does the inner life of a city show in its outward forms? How much of the history of a neighborhood can you read in the physical remains, the existing architecture?” asks Howard S. Miller, associate professor of history at the University of MissouriSt. Louis. Showing slides of houses in Bremen and St. Louis Hills, Dr. Miller and Katharine T. Corbett, curator of education at the Missouri Historical Society, will illustrate their look at urban culture.
They are two of the featured speakers at the half-day conference, “Perspectives III: The Urban Landscape,” to be held on Saturday, June 16 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The program will be held in the auditorium of the Missouri Historical Society in the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park.
There is no charge for the conference, but registration, with a deadline of June 4, is limited to 150 persons. Additional perspectives on the urban landscape will be presented by Janice K. Broderick, curator of collections at A. G. Edwards and Sons, Inc., and Duane R. Sneddeker, curator of special projects at the Missouri Historical Society. Ms. Broderick will show a cross-section of vernacular residential architecture as it relates to popular decorative taste in St. Louis as she comments on slides of “The Faces of St. Louis Neighborhoods.” Mr. Sneddeker’s slides will show “Images of the City” from the rich resources of the Society’s pictorial collection.
After their presentations, the speakers will conduct workshops on their perspectives of the topic, and conference participants are invited to explore one of these subjects in more detail.
A panel made up of local historians discussing their research and publications will conclude the session. Caroline Loughlin and Cathy Anderson, from the Junior League of St. Louis, will give a preview of the League’s book, The History of Forest Park. Brian C. Hayes, Sr., teacher and author, and Robert T. Voorhees, from the Carondelet Historical Society, will talk about their book, St. Louis Parks. St. Louis photographer Quinta Scott and author Susan Croce Kelly will show pictures from their book, Route 66: Myth and Reality.
The Urban Landscape is the last in the series of three conferences on St. Louis historical themes, co-sponsored by the Missouri Historical Society, by the history departments of the University of MissouriSt. Louis and St. Louis University, and by the Carondelet Historical Society.
This project is supported by a grant to the Missouri Historical Society from the Missouri Committee for the Humanities, Inc., the state-based arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
To register for the conference or for more information about the series, contact the conference coordinator at 361-9255.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1984.
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