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Lunch with the Libraries & Museums: Leave No Trace – John Work Garrett’s Trip to the American West
August 1 , 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
FREE
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ABOUT LEAVE NO TRACE
When Evergreen resident John Work Garrett made his first trip to Yellowstone National Park in 1894 as the student ornithologist participating in one of the late-19th century Princeton Geological Expeditions, he would have been one of the earliest white tourists to enter the nation’s first national park. For the future diplomat, the trip was only the start in a lifetime of love for the American outdoors. He made sure to remember the trip through preserving his journals and photographs taken on the trip which offer a rare, personal glimpse into the outdoor recreational experience of late-19th-century Americans. Through Garrett’s photographs and souvenirs, “Leave No Trace” will examine the historic and present-day relationships that Americans have to the great outdoors.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michelle Fitzgerald is the Curator of Collections at the Johns Hopkins University Museums. With an interest in Chesapeake furniture in the 18th and 19th centuries, she has previously held positions at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Maryland Center for History and Culture, and the Maryland State Archives. She received her MA from the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and is published in the University of Chicago Press’ Winterthur Portfolio and AASLH’s History News magazine.