Rachel Sailor at Saturday U- Making it Home: Landscape Photographs in the 19th C. West
Channel: Wyoming Videos
Date: 2014-03-05

Rachel Sailor of University of Wyoming's Department of Art History, delivered her lecture,  Making it Home: Landscape Photographs in the Nineteenth-Century West, to a Saturday University audience in Sheridan, WY on February 8, 2014.

Photographs of the Old West fill archives and special collections across America, but they are often overlooked outside the region where they were taken. Cumulatively, these photographs can tell much more than the details of a town or homestead; they reveal that the camera was a settlement tool and that people used photographs to capture a sense of (their) place and of themselves within it.

In its fifth year, Saturday U is a collaborative program that connects popular UW professors with life-long learners in in Jackson, Gillette, and Sheridan. Offered twice a year in each community,  Saturday University is sponsored by the University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming Foundation and the Wyoming Humanities Council. The program is presented locally by Sheridan College.

For all the Saturday U lectures and to find out about upcoming Saturday U events, visit: www.uwyo.edu/saturdayu
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