MHM Report to the Community 2011

A Report to the
Community
2011
Our
Mission
The Missouri History Museum
seeks to deepen the
understanding of past
choices, present circumstances
and future possibilities;
strengthen the bonds
of community; and
facilitate solutions to
common problems.
From the President
In the midst of planning for projects that
will enhance the community in multiple
ways, I stop to take a step or two back
and survey what the Missouri History
Museum has done in the year past. With
pardonable pride I admire what we have
achieved in 2011, and I am pleased to
report to the community on these
accomplishments. However, as I have
often reflected in a variety of ways, what
we have done in the past leads us into the
future. At the History Museum the future
looks very promising.
We are on a good course in our service
to the community. We offered more than
700 educational programs and events in
2011, generally well attended and widely
applauded. Visitation numbers were
excellent, at both the Museum and the
Library and Research Center. More
children than ever before visited us and
took advantage of our educational
programs, including our youngest
patrons, pre-schoolers and toddlers who
enjoyed activities developed especially for
them. Our membership rolls are steady
and growing in several categories. Our
volunteer corps is wonderfully supportive
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in every aspect of our work, with new
recruits regularly joining the enthusiastic
group. The intern program involves
students from all over the region who
are finding museum work a fascinating
field.
The exhibitions mounted at the History
Museum are some of the best in the
nation. While we are privileged to present
fine exhibits from other institutions, our
in-house exhibit program is outstanding.
The expertise and dedicated work of our
Exhibition and Research staff brings to
our community enduring experiences of
their very own history.
The Missouri History Museum long ago
shed the image of a fusty antiquarian
society. We continue to employ the
latest in technology to serve our
community. The digitization of our
collections is a long-term project that
moves rapidly along, promising evereasier access to our many resources
and delivering daily on that promise. In
2011 we published our first eBook with
more in the pipeline, and we developed
Historic St. Louis, an iPhone app that
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allows users to step back in time and
rediscover the city through historical
images from our collections. While
serving visitors to the Museum and the
Library and Research Center will always
be a major part of our mission, online
use of our assets becomes increasingly
available and popular.
With a pledge of good stewardship, we
have maintained strict budgeting with
the enthusiastic support and cooperation
of our staff, and hence the Missouri
History Museum is surviving and even
thriving in this time of economic
uncertainty. We are determined to
continue on this course.
The achievements of the Missouri History
Museum are a credit to many groups
and individuals, and I wish to express
cordial and sincere appreciation to the
Zoo-Museum District and the Subdistrict
commissioners, the Museum’s Board
of Trustees and the Friends Board, the
people of the City of St. Louis and
St. Louis County, and all our members,
patrons, volunteers, and staff.
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Museum Leadership
Museum Leadership 2011
Metropolitan Zoological Park
and Museum District Board
Missouri History Museum
Subdistrict Commissioners
Chair, City of St. Louis
Commissioners, City of St. Louis
David S. Weber
Joan T. Briccetti*
Laura Cohen
Bonnie O’Keefe
Odester Saunders
Romondous A. Stover
Vice Chair, County of St. Louis
Ben Uchitelle
Secretary, City of St. Louis
Gloria Wessels
Advisory Commissioners,
City of St. Louis
Assistant Secretary, City of St. Louis
Robert A. Powell
The Honorable Thomas Grady
Frank Hamsher
Treasurer
Commissioners, County of St. Louis
Thomas J. Campbell
Board Members
Thelma V. Cook, City of St. Louis
Jerome E. Glick, County of St. Louis
Advisory Commissioners,
County of St. Louis
Valerie Bell
F. Mark Kuhlmann
Officers
Richard C. Jensen, Chairman
Romondous Stover, Vice Chairman
Austin P. Tao, Secretary
Joan Briccetti, Treasurer
Jerry G. Brown
Richard C. Jensen
Austin P. Tao*
Wallace W. Ward, Jr.
Howard J. Wilkinson, Jr.*
Officers of the
Board of Trustees
Chairman of the Board
V. Raymond Stranghoener
President
Robert R. Archibald, Ph.D.
Vice Chairs
Marilyn R. Fox
Cheri Fromm
Noémi K. Neidorff
Donald M. Suggs
Secretary
Cheryl D. Polk
Treasurer
Richard A. Navarre
Chairman of the Board Emeritus
Donna Wilkinson
Thomas Jefferson Society
Representative
Laura J. Shaughnessy
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Friends Board Representative
Leo H. Ming, Jr.
Past Chairmen of the
Board of Trustees
Taylor S. Desloge
Earl K. Dille
James H. Howe III
Frank Jacobs
Richard A. Liddy
Gary L. Rainwater
Harold M. Stuhl
Honorable George H. Walker III
Donna Wilkinson
W. Wayne Withers
Missouri History Museum
Board of Trustees
Friends Board of the
Missouri History Museum
Catherine Berges
Mrs. Stephen F. Brauer
Mel F. Brown
Rachel Keller Brown
Erin Budde
Darnetta Clinkscale
Daniel F. Cole
Bert Condie III
William A. Coppel
Kat Cunningham
Arnold W. Donald
Gerald Early, Ph.D.
L.B. Eckelkamp, Jr.
The Honorable Steve Ehlmann
Martin Galt III
Mrs. Myron Glassberg
The Honorable Wayne Goode
Mary Lee Hermann
Kenneth Kranzberg
Ann Liberman
Chuck Maggiorotto
Robert F. McCoole
Veronica McDonnell
Paul J. McKee, Jr.
Sandra Maria Moore
Mabel L. Purkerson, M.D.
Elizabeth Thurmond Robb
John R. Roberts
William C. Rusnack
James E. Schiele
Joseph F. Shaughnessy
Rex Sinquefield
Frank L. Steeves
James A. Tricarico
Reeve Lindbergh Tripp**
Anabeth C. Weil
Yvette S. Whitehead
Chairman
Leo H. Ming, Jr.
Vicki Altvater
Frederick H. Atwood III
Diane Barrett
Susan Blake
Gene Dobbs Bradford
Karen M. Castellano
Mary Beth Daniels
Mrs. Charles W. Disbrow
Robert W. Fulstone
Mrs. Joseph F. Gleason
Mary Pat Hardin
Gregory J. Hutchings
Lisa Imbs
Mrs. Landon Y. Jones
Mrs. Tony Karakas
Joan Langenberg
Ruth Lewis
Christy Love
Chris Miller
Ron Norwood
Barbara O’Flynn
Mrs. William J. Oetting
Gwendolyn Packnett
Gilberto Pinela
Darryl A. Ross, Ph.D.
Mary Rumy
Elizabeth M. Russell
Tatjana Schwendinger
William Shearburn
Joan L. Sheppard
Steven Fitzpatrick Smith
Celeste D. Sprung
Anne P. Stupp
Pat Whitaker
Ericca Willis
Mrs. W. Wayne Withers
Lynn Yaeger
Ex-officio
Carolyn Arneson
Catherine Berges
Mrs. Lee M. Liberman
Pris McDonnell
Cheryl D. Polk
Laura Shaughnessy
Joan Westin Wendt
Leadership Team of the
Missouri History Museum
Robert R. Archibald, Ph.D.
President
Donna McGinnis, MBA, CFRE
Institutional Advancement, Managing Director
Melanie Adams
Community Education and Events,
Managing Director
Harry E. Rich
Chief Financial Officer
Karen M. Goering
Operations, Managing Director
Katherine Van Allen
Museum Services, Managing Director
Life Trustees
Rev. John N. Doggett, Jr., Ph.D.^
James S. McDonnell III
Pris McDonnell
W.R. Orthwein^
*Past Chairman
^Deceased
**Honorary
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In 2011, the History Museum’s
Community Education and Events
division presented more than 40 programs
each month, and in some months more
than 50. Such enduring events as Twilight
Tuesdays, the Community Cinema series,
archaeology lectures, and History on the
Side continued to attract appreciative
audiences. New topics and new programs
were also established to general acclaim.
In addition we offered scheduled tours
to school and preschool groups, scout
troops, and camps. We served more than
13,000 patrons in programs like Parent
& Me, Family Films, and other youth
and family events. These programs are
available year round, giving families an
opportunity for enjoyable interaction
and museum adventure.
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We inaugurated a new professional
development cohort for teachers called
Teaching Slavery, which met four times
in the fall 2011 semester. Results of this
initiative were presented at the 54th
Annual Missouri Conference on History
in March 2012. The goals of the cohort
were to promote the teaching of slavery in
a respectful way, to create guidelines for
teachers in their work with students, to
identify resources teachers may wish to
use in their classrooms, and to create a
professional community for educators
interested in dealing with this sensitive
topic. Teacher response was very
positive, and we look forward to future
implementation.
Teens Make History Academy, launched
in 2011, is an eight-week mini-museum
studies course that introduced local teens
to museum careers. We continued our
outstanding Teens Make History Players
and welcomed several academy graduates
to the group. We also hired students to
work in other departments: exhibitions
and research, community partnerships,
family programs, human resources, and
marketing and communications. These
young people are discovering that history
is anything but “boring.”
In November we welcomed Meggie,
our very own mastodon, to the History
Museum. Throughout the run of Mammoths
and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age,
Meggie (actually two education staff
members in a very clever costume)
entertained and delighted adults and
children. By the exhibition’s end, Meggie
had made appearances for approximately
3,500 people. Other Theater in the Museum programs
included short one- or two-person plays
that feature people and characters from
St. Louis’s past and, in the Performing
Arts series, productions by local
professional theater companies.
The History Museum presented our first
Swap-O-Rama-Rama, a clothing swap
and workshop developed by Creative
Commons that explores creative reuse
through the recycling and reinvention of
used clothes. The public response
was enthusiastic, and we plan to offer
Swap-O-Rama-Rama as an annual event.
In conjunction with Tavis Smiley’s
America I AM: The African American
Imprint, Community Education and Events
developed events that featured, among
other subjects, an Arts Showcase, a
multimedia panel discussion about jazz
legend Miles Davis, a program on black
fatherhood, and a year-long series called
Class: The Great Divide. Smiley’s
exhibition gave us the opportunity to not
only focus on contributions of Africans
and African Americans to our nation but
also to discuss in a neutral, non-threatening
manner some of the issues that fracture our
region.
The positive and laudatory responses to
these and other programs have strongly
indicated that the History Museum is
a vital force in our community. Our
success has consistently reinvigorated
us, and our work continues at an
energetic pace.
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Museum
Exhibitions
and
Gallery
Installations
The earliest museums were “cabinets of
curiosities” owned and controlled by the
aristocracy and wealthy individuals. Only
a select few were granted access to view
the mélange of archaeological, geological,
and ethnographic specimens; religious
relics; artwork; historic artifacts; and
items that could only be described as
“oddities.” Furthermore, these collections
were displayed with little or no
intellectual underpinnings or academic
analysis. The objects were simply
intended to dazzle and entertain.
In the 21st century, the driving force
of the Missouri History Museum’s
exhibitions is to not only entertain but
to educate, enlighten, and empower as
well. We often hear museum visitors
remark, “I never knew that…” or “I never
thought about it like that before…” or
“That makes me want to do something…”
Museum team members — from the
president to curatorial interns — are
committed to having our exhibitions
serve and document all classes, races,
and ethnic groups who call — or have
called — the metropolitan St. Louis area
home. The Missouri History Museum is
the people’s museum telling the people’s
stories.
Major Exhibitions
Splendid Heritage:
Perspectives on American Indian Art
February 12, 2011–April 24, 2011
Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on
American Indian Art featured nearly 150
objects of artistry and powerful cultural
expression from the Native people of the
Plains, Plateau, and Northeast. Generally
museums interpret this type of material by
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emphasizing either the cultural context
or the fine arts context. Splendid Heritage,
however, examined the objects from
both perspectives — the intersection of
culture and art — to uncover a richer
narrative about the material and enhance
the viewer’s understanding.
Featuring highlights from the John and
Marva Warnock Collection, Splendid
Heritage was organized by the Utah
Museum of Fine Art.
Arts and Exhibitions International (AEI),
a division of AEG Live, and the Cincinnati
Museum Center. America I AM was made
possible by Walmart Stores, Inc., which
served as the presenting sponsor of the
four-year touring exhibition. Northern
Trust served as the educational partner,
and Microsoft was the technology partner
for the tour.
America I AM:
The African American Imprint
May 28, 2011–September 25, 2011
Exploring pivotal moments of courage,
conviction, and creativity by African
Americans, America I AM: The African
American Imprint celebrated African
American contributions to the United
States. Through more than 200 rare
historic objects, documents, photos, and
multimedia elements, visitors explored
how African Americans contributed to
and shaped American culture. Designed
to unite and educate Americans of all
cultures, ages, and backgrounds, the
exhibition featured the doors to the Cape
Coast Castle in Ghana; Alex Haley’s
typewriter used to write Roots; personal
items belonging to Malcolm X; the door
key from the Birmingham jail cell that
held Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; sports
memorabilia from Michael Jordan, Arthur
Ashe, and Muhammad Ali; and artifacts
from legendary entertainers such as Etta
James and Michael Jackson. Visitors
gained a better understanding of the
indelible African American imprint on
our nation.
America I AM: The African American
Imprint was developed in partnership
with Tavis Smiley and was organized by
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Mammoths and Mastodons:
Titans of the Ice Age
November 25, 2011–April 15, 2012
In 2011 the Missouri History Museum
had an opportunity to explore something
new: the span of time before recorded
history. Since Missouri is home of the
Kimmswick Bone Bed, a legendary
Pleistocene Ice Age deposit of fossils,
including a number of bones of giant
mastodons, we welcomed Mammoths
and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age.
The Civil War in Missouri
Opened November 11, 2011
To commemorate the sesquicentennial
of the Civil War, the Missouri History
Museum’s comprehensive The Civil War
in Missouri explores the complexities
of the Civil War through the eyes of
Missourians who experienced it first-hand.
Featuring American treasures, compelling
imagery, and interactive, thought-
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provoking elements, the exhibition
explores how pre-Civil War Missouri
reflected the nation’s ideological,
political, and racial divisions. Pro-slavery
secessionists and those determined to
preserve the Union bitterly divided the
state. One hundred and fifty years after
the war’s end, Missouri and its role in the
Civil War continue to generate debate
among historians, academics, Civil War
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Visitors were able to journey back
through the Ice Age to view some of
Earth’s largest and most awe-inspiring
mammals. For millions of years they
survived, living in temperate climates
and on the wind-swept lands of the
frozen north — great beasts weighing as
much as eight tons and bearing tusks
up to16 feet long. Mammoths and
mastodons were wonderfully successful
creatures of the Ice Age. They were a
source of food and artistic inspiration
for ancient peoples who lived in Europe,
Asia, and North America. Monumental
video installations, hands-on interactive
displays, life-sized models, fossil tusks
and skulls — and even touchable teeth —
brought these ancient giants back to life.
Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of
the Ice Age was organized by The Field
Museum, Chicago.
enthusiasts, and descendants of both
soldiers and slaves. As visitors to this
once-in-a-lifetime exhibition explore the
origins and aftermath of the bloodiest
conflict on our nation’s soil, they gain a
deeper understanding of how the legacy
of the Civil War in Missouri shapes who
we are today. The Civil War in Missouri
is scheduled to run through April 2013.
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Gallery Installations
Singgalot (The Ties That Bind):
Filipinos in America, from Colonial
Subjects to Citizens
February 12, 2011–April 24, 2011
Singgalot (The Ties That Bind) explored
the challenges and issues that confronted
Filipinos following the annexation of the
Philippines as a U.S. territory in 1898.
The panel exhibit offered insight into the
Filipino experience initially as colonial
subjects and nationals and the eventual
struggle to acquire full citizenship status
as immigrants. Through 100 photomurals
and images, the social history and the
development of the Filipino community
in the United States was vividly
portrayed.
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Chalkboards to Computers:
A Lindbergh School Retrospective
Bittersweet Harvest:
The Bracero Program, 1942–1964
May 21, 2011–July 31, 2011
In 1942 the United States initiated a
temporary war measure to address labor
needs in agriculture and the railroads. The
bracero program, derived from brazo, the
Spanish word for “arm,” became the
largest guest worker program in U.S.
history, bringing in an estimated 4.6
million contracts for Mexican braceros
until the program’s cancellation in 1964.
Using recent scholarship and powerful
photography, Bittersweet Harvest: The
Bracero Program, 1942–1964, a bilingual
exhibition, examined the experiences of
bracero workers and their families. The
compelling exhibit explored a facet of
Mexican American history and provided
a historical background to issues still
facing us today.
Organized by the Smithsonian’s National
Museum of American History and
circulated by the Smithsonian Institution
Traveling Exhibition Service.
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Singgalot (The Ties That Bind) was created
by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific
American Program with the University
of Hawaii Department of Ethnic Studies
to commemorate 100 years of the
Filipino American experience in the
United States.
Community Partners
Gallery Installations
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In Henry’s Box
March 26, 2011–July 10, 2011
The Missouri History Museum’s first
student-led history exhibition,
Chalkboards to Computers: A Lindbergh
School Retrospective documented the
history of Lindbergh School District’s
Truman Elementary School, which was
formerly Lindbergh-North Junior High,
the Middle School, Harry S. Truman
Middle School, Affton-Lindbergh Early
Childhood Education Center, and the
Kindergarten Center during the course of
its 49-year history. Curated and designed
by Jane Hake’s fourth-grade class at
Truman Elementary School with the help
of mentors from the Missouri History
Museum’s staff, this exhibition presented
artifacts related to the school’s history;
memories from students, teachers, and
parents; and a 27-foot timeline
documenting key historical events.
Kirkwood Roots
August 20, 2011–February 26, 2012
Kirkwood Roots was a multimedia
installation exploring the historic African
American community in Kirkwood,
Missouri. From the first settlement before
the Civil War to the period of intensive
suburban development following World
War II, African Americans lived in a
cohesive community composed of 11
separate and identifiable neighborhoods
in an area that is part of today’s Kirkwood.
Drawing upon memories, community
research, groupings of evocative
objects, and interviews, Kirkwood
Roots synthesized the colors, textures,
forms, and sounds significant in these
people’s lives. The centerpieces of the
1,000-square-foot gallery were extensive
audio and video components — including
powerful oral history interviews of growing
up in Kirkwood.
Woven in Time
September 10, 2011–August 12, 2012
Woven in Time commemorated the
85th anniversary of the Weavers’ Guild
of St. Louis, which was founded in
1926 by a group of former students
at Washington University. It is the
second-oldest weavers’ guild in the
United States. Showcasing artists
working with a variety of materials,
Woven in Time celebrated the modern
revival of the fiber arts movement in
the United States and explored the work
of locally and nationally recognized
artists.
March 23, 2011–November 27, 2011
Inspired by Henry “Box” Brown, an
enslaved man who endured a 27-hour
journey to freedom by shipping himself
from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in 1849, In Henry’s Box
featured art created by Ralph M. Captain
Elementary School’s 2009–2010 third-,
fourth-, and fifth-grade students. Students
posed in a box similar to the one that
Henry used and imagined what his
journey must have been like. After their
teacher took photographs of them inside
the box, the students colorized the images
and added their written reflections to
them.
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The Missouri History Museum has
collected artifacts, books, and manuscripts
from the organization’s beginning. The
first recorded gift was a collection of
daguerreotypes of old buildings by noted
local photographer Thomas Easterly.
Today, the Missouri History Museum’s
collecting process seeks to serve and
document all classes and all racial and
ethnic groups in the region; its current
collection priorities in every area reflect
that goal.
The Museum Collections consist of
160,000 artifacts in a variety of
formats that document the everyday
life of the diverse inhabitants of the
St. Louis region.
Collections
The Manuscript Collections consist
of more than 2,285 separate
collections, totaling over 7,800
linear feet of original manuscript
records, dating from the period
of the French and Spanish
colonization of the Mississippi
Valley to the present.
The Photographs and Prints
Collections contain more than
600,000 images representing a
thorough pictorial history of
St. Louis. Highlights include
works of St. Louis commercial
and amateur photographers and
photojournalists.
The Library Collection contains
more than 90,000 volumes,
particularly St. Louis and early
Missouri history and biography.
The Broadcast Media Archives
collects audio, film, and video
that document the history of
20th-century St. Louis and its
broadcast industry. The collection
also includes home movies and
videos and industrial films.
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In 2011 the Broadcast Media Archives
received a significant donation: select
films and production materials from
Academy Award-winning documentary
filmmaker Charles Guggenheim.
Guggenheim (1924–2002) achieved
an international reputation in the area
of documentary films. Described by
The Saturday Review’s film critic,
Hollis Alpert, as “probably the most
accomplished maker of documentary
films in the country,” Guggenheim won
top awards in every major international
film competition, including the George
Foster Peabody Award in broadcasting,
twelve Academy Award nominations,
and four Academy Awards. The Venice
Film Festival’s XI Gold Mercury Award
for Guggenheim’s “Monument to the
Dream,” depicting the building of the
Gateway Arch, marked the first time in
the Festival’s history that the award was
given to an American.
While a resident of St. Louis from
the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s,
Guggenheim served as director of
St. Louis’s public television station
KETC (now The Nine Network) and
founded his film production company,
Charles Guggenheim and Associates.
Missouri History Museum has an acute
understanding that social change comes
through knowledge and advocacy.”
Another important donation to the
Missouri History Museum’s collections
was the Center for Hearing & Speech
collection presented to the Museum.
Established in 1920 as the League for
the Hard of Hearing, the Center now
serves 10,000 individuals annually. The
donated collection includes letters,
photographs, newsletters, and other
documents, including a letter from
Helen Keller to the Center’s first
president, written in 1927. Acquiring
this important collection was part of the
Museum’s ongoing Perspectives on
Disabilities Project, a multiyear collecting
initiative to ensure the preservation of
the personal history of people with
disabilities, organizations serving
the disability community, and the
accomplishments of the disability rights
movement. The project resulted in the
exhibition The Americans with Disabilities
Act: 20 Years Later, which was open
throughout 2011, and actionforaccess.
mohistory.org, a website designed to
change perceptions of disability in
American life.
With the 2011 donation, the Missouri
History Museum is — along with the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences/Academy Film Archive in
Los Angeles and the John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library and Museum in
Boston — the repository of material
from Guggenheim’s distinguished
50-year career.
Upon presenting the collection of
the work of her late father, Grace
Guggenheim, herself an accomplished
documentary filmmaker, said, “The
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Digital
Media
and
Publications
As in all areas of the Missouri History
Museum, our publishing arm has taken
full advantage of digital technology to
engage with our public. In 2011 we
produced our first eBook: At the Elbows
of My Elders: One Family’s Journey
Toward Civil Rights by Gail Milissa
Grant. The print edition of Ms. Grant’s
memoir, published in 2008 by the
History Museum, was the Gold-medal
winner of the 2009 Benjamin Franklin
Award for Autobiography and Memoir.
Launched in December 2009, the
History Museum’s blog, History Happens
Here (historyhappenshere.org), features
stories, images, and artifacts from the
collections and archives, behind-the-scenes
videos, book reviews, readers’ posts, and
more. In 2011 the blog published well
over 100 posts and had more than
20,300 visitors to the site. To complement
The Civil War in Missouri exhibition,
History Happens Here debuted a
four-year series called “Love Letters”
from the Archives’ collection of the
James E. Love papers. Throughout the
Civil War, James wrote home to his
sweetheart, letters that document not
only one man’s experiences during the
Civil War, but also reveal a tender love
story.
We have not neglected the traditional
print medium. In 2011 we published
two books, Captain Joseph Boyce and
the 1st Missouri Infantry, C.S.A., edited
by William C. Winter, which won an
Award of Merit from the American
Association of State and Local History,
and The Mack Marsden Murder Mystery:
Vigilantism or Justice? by Joe Johnston,
which won the True Crime category
of the 2012 National Indie Excellence
Book Awards; and a special issue of
Gateway magazine, with the Civil War
in Missouri as its theme.
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Audience Summary 2011
New Opportunities
Alongside world-class exhibitions and popular programming, the
Missouri History Museum seeks new opportunities to share history via
meaningful stories, through our online presence and documentary film.
Who We Serve
“…I have only time to say how much I love you. All my hopes of Heaven &
earth depend on you…”
Dated June 16, 1861, this tender sentiment is from a letter written by James
E. Love to his fiancée, Eliza Mary “Molly” Wilson. The Missouri History
Museum Archives possesses many collections that provide first-hand
accounts of historic events. One such collection is the Civil War–era James
E. Love Papers. James enlisted with a Union
regiment in St. Louis in May 1861. After his
regiment left St. Louis in June 1861, he wrote
letters home to his fiancée. James continued to
write these letters throughout his entire Civil
War service. Beginning in 2011, the Missouri
History Museum, on its blog History Happens
Here, is posting each letter 150 years to the day
after it was originally written. Will James survive
the war? Will he return to his beloved Molly?
The saga unfolds with each new letter.
In 2008, Jaime and Chad Freidrichs, the husband-and-wife owners of
Unicorn Stencil Documentary Films, based in Columbia, Missouri,
approached the Missouri History Museum to participate
in the creation of a documentary about the Pruitt-Igoe
public housing development.
For the next three years, the Freidrichs worked on the film
with assistance from the Museum in the form of archival
footage and participation on the film’s advisory panel by
the Museum’s Public Historian. The final product, “The
Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History,” premiered in 2011.
Critics and audiences immediately hailed the film. The
film won the Heartland Best Documentary Feature at the
2011 Kansas City FilmFest. The New York Times described
the film as “focused and unfussy.” In reviewing the film,
a Variety critic wrote, “…[the film] combines concise but
thoroughgoing sociological-historical analysis and elegant
cinematic resources in service of an uncommonly artful example of film
journalism…”
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Photo by Joel Marion
2011
Thomas
Jefferson
Award
The 29th Thomas Jefferson Society Award
dinner was held on October 17, 2011. Each
year this award is presented to a person or
persons who exemplify the spirit of community
service and philanthropy. Certainly, this year’s
recipients, Rosemary and Joseph Shaughnessy,
personify this spirit.
The Shaughnessy name is known throughout
our region. Since 1972, BSI Contractors has
been recognized as one of the most successful
general contractor and construction management
companies in the construction industry. Joe has
made important personal contributions to the
community through service and participation.
He and Rosemary, his wife of more than 50
years, have supported many of the cultural
institutions in the region and have been special
friends to the Missouri History Museum.
Rosemary and Joe have instilled strong family
and professional values in their seven children
and are proud grandparents of 21 grandchildren.
These values continue in the way BSI does
business, in the many contributions that bear
the Shaughnessy name, and in the great
affection the whole family exhibits to each
other and to the greater community.
Although Rosemary and Joe are from Springfield,
Illinois, they moved to St. Louis in 1963. They
now call St. Louis their home, and our region is
fortunate to have them do so.
The Museum serves the general public through exhibitions, public programming,
community education, collections and conservation, research, and publications.
In 2011, we welcomed more than 365,000 visitors to the Museum. General
admission to both the Museum and its Library and Research Center is free at all
times.
How We Serve
The Museum offered over 700 programs to connect more than 100,000 people —
a third of our visitors — with many areas of interest and to stimulate important
community dialogue.
• 21,090 school children and 2,100 adult chaperons participated in exhibition tours guided by interpreters, dramatic productions connected with exhibition themes, and other programs.
•
More than 13,000 children, parents, and caregivers took advantage of our
family programming. By far the most popular among these programs is
Storytelling at the Museum, which engages children with historic themes
by using artifacts, stories, and hands-on crafts.
•
More than 4,800 community members attended Teens Make History theater performances. Through Teens Make History, young people learn history,
develop skills that are essential to workplace success, and gain confidence through achievement in long-term structured apprenticeships.
• More than 4,700 community members attended performances of Theater in
the Museum where historical characters come to life. Presentations included The Camp Jackson Affair, Hard Tack to Hard Marches, If I Can’t Be a Soldier,
and In Search of the Mastodon.
• More than 40,000 community members joined us for the spring and fall seasons of the Twilight Tuesdays Concert Series.
Additional programs include Community Cinema, Genealogy Workshops,
Archeology Programs, and the Perspectives on Science and History Lecture
Series. We also provided an African American History Series to expose the public
to the richness of African American history and to encourage audiences to view
the museum as a cultural resource for all people.
Goals for the Future
• To continue to provide quality
exhibitions and programs
• To develop technological resources
to make artifacts available online
• To expand opportunities for the
public to interact with us
• To maintain free programming
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Financial Summary 2011
Sources of Public Support and Revenue
Missouri History Museum Subdistrict of the
Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District........... $9,955,601.
Contributions and Bequests................................................4,757,144
Investment Income.............................................................791,649
Gains from Securities, Net................................................. (674,493)
Grant Income..................................................................... 116,378
In-kind Contributions, Volunteer Services................................ 222,210
Memberships.................................................................... 544,635
Museum Shop, Net..............................................................(11,918).
Facility Rental/Restaurant Income...........................................86,797.
Special Exhibition Ticket Revenue...........................................272,793
Other Income.....................................................................192,684
Total........................................................ $16,253,480
Financial Summary
Program
Expenses
Library and Collections
29%
Community Education
and Events
12%
Publications
3%
Communications
11%
Exhibitions and Research
45%
Total
Expenses
Distribution of Operating Expenses
Program Services......................................... $11,422,048
Programs
78%
Administration
15%
Community Education and Events.......................................1,399,323
Library and Collections..................................................... 3,353,340
Publications....................................................................... 329,128
Exhibitions and Research.................................................. 5,126,345.
Communications............................................................... 1,213,912
Fundraising
7%
Supporting Services....................................... $3,290,962.
Development.....................................................................606,231.
Membership.......................................................................406,233
Human Resources................................................................ 297,474
Information Technology....................................................... 163,617
Management and General...................................................1,817,407
ZMD
62%
Revenue
Sources
Other
3%
Public Grants
1%
Change in Value of Split-interest Agreements..............................$51,205
Ticket Revenue
2%
Total........................................................ $14,764,215
Contributions
32%
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Community Support 2011
Community Support
Upper Level Members
We are grateful to the following members
for their leadership support in 2011:
Thomas Jefferson Society
President’s Circle
Thomas Jefferson Society
Diamond
Thomas Jefferson Society
Gold
Thomas Jefferson Society
Silver
Individual
Individual
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Brauer
Mr. and Mrs. James S. McDonnell III
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Tschudy
Individual
Individual
Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield
Corporate
Peabody Energy
Thomas Jefferson Society
Platinum
Individual
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford N. McDonnell
Foundation
Noémi and Michael F. Neidorff
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Taylor
Mr. Jack Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. W. Wayne Withers
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin F. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Condie III
Dr. William H. Danforth
Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Eckelkamp, Jr.
Mrs. Myron Glassberg
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Hermann, Sr.
Miss Marian L. Herr^
Pat Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Melvyn L. Lefkowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Liberman
Mr.^ and Mrs. William R. Orthwein, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Roberts
Tom and Ulrike Schlafly
Mrs. Edward J. Schnuck
Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Shaughnessy
Ms. Chloe C. Woods-Ward
Corporate
Ameren
Stupp Bros. Bridge & Iron Co. Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Archibald
Mr.^ and Mrs. Melvin C. Bahle
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Berges
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry G. Brown
Mrs. Rachel Keller Brown and Mr. Travis Brown
Ms. Barbara Bryant
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Chod
T. Danis Charitable Trust
Mrs. Marjorie C. Eddy
Mr. and Mrs. Alyn V. Essman
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Finerty
Ambassador Sam and Mrs. Marilyn Fox
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Fromm
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence K. Goering
Mr. and Mrs. Earle H. Harbison, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Howe III
Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Keinath, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Knight
Dr. and Mrs. Wilfred R. Konneker
Ken and Nancy Kranzberg
Kuhn Foundation
Ms. Jane McCammon
Dr. Jerome M. Mileur
Jane M. Musick
Reverend Roy Pfautch
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Piper
Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Mabel L. Purkerson, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Darryl A. Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Zsolt Rumy
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Rusnack
Mrs. Donald O. Schnuck
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Shaughnessy
Laura Slay and Robert Poli
Frank L. Steeves and Sheryl Andrews
Mr. and Mrs. V. Raymond Stranghoener
Mary Strauss
Julia J. Stupp
Mr. and Mrs. R. Philip Stupp, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Stupp
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Tricarico, Jr.
Honorable and Mrs. George H. Walker III
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Weil, Trustees/
Pershing Place Foundation
Howard J. Wilkinson, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Wrighton
Corporate
Bunge North America, Inc.
Commerce Bancshares, Inc.
Laclede Gas Company
St. Louis Screw & Bolt
J.W. Terrill
Thomas Jefferson Society
Patron
Individual
Mr. and Mrs. J. Joe Adorjan
Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Altvater
Scott J. Anderson and Robin A. Weinberg
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Ansehl
Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Arneson
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bachmann
Dr.^ and Mrs. Mary Randolph Ballinger
Mr. and Mrs. Ted W. Beaty
Thomas Beauvais
Mr. and Mrs. F. Gilbert Bickel III
Mr. and Mrs. Van-Lear Black III
Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Branson, Sr.
Cynthia J. Brinkley
Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Cahn
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Carlson
Hellen and Will D. Carpenter
Karen and James Castellano
Mrs. Marian B. Christy
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Cole
Mrs. Joel F. Cooley
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Cornwell, Jr.
Honorable and Mrs. John C. Danforth
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Daniels
Mr.^ and Mrs. George B. Desloge, George
and Mary Rose Desloge Family Fund of
the Greater Saint Louis Community
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor S. Desloge
Mr. and Mrs. Earl K. Dille
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Duesenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey D. Ellis, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Elsesser, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Irl F. Engelhardt
Lelia and David Farr
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Farrell
Mrs. Dorothy M. Fleck
Gretta R. Forrester
Mr. and Mrs. Lucien R. Fouke, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Fulstone
Dr. and Mrs. Ira Gall
Frederick Scott Galt
Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Galt III
Mrs. Jean P. Gase
Mr. and Mrs. Warren J. Gelman
Mrs. Bettie Gershman
Mrs. Joseph F. Gleason
Honorable and Mrs. P. Wayne Goode
Frank J. Guyol III Charitable Fund of the
Greater Saint Louis Community
Foundation
^Deceased
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Community Support
Mr. and Mrs. Harvard K. Hecker
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Herring
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Holton
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Imo
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Intravia
Franklin Jacobs and Marylen Mann
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Jaudes
Mrs. M. Matthew Jenks
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Jensen
Mrs. James Lee Johnson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Johnston
Mrs. Landon Y. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Jones
Vicki and Don Kaffenberger
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Kahn
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Karakas
Dr. and Mrs. James R. Kimmey
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. King
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Klein
Dr. and Mrs. Paul F. Knubley
Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas T. Kouchoukos
Mr. and Mrs. Keith T. Kowalczyk
Gary and Patty Krosch
F. Holmes Lamoreux
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Langsam
Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Leer
Sally and Ned Lemkemeier
Thom and Patti^ Lewis
David B. Lichtenstein^ Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Liddy
L. Max Lippman, Jr.^
Mrs. Stanley Lopata
Jospeh and Carolyn Losos
Christy Love
Mrs. Paul A. Lux
Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Maggiorotto
Sawyer and Jean Marglous Family Foundation
Robert and Alison McCoole
Mr. and Mrs. W. Randall McDonnell
Donna and Brian McGinnis
David Mesker
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Miller
Millstone Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Leo H. Ming, Jr.
Mrs. Eleanor Moore
Mrs. Armarie B. Murphy
Mrs. Gladys H. Myles
Rick and Judy Navarre, Navarre Family
Foundation Fund of the Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Nix, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Oertli
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Peters II
Cheryl D. and Charles E. Polk, Jr.
Jane Hardesty Poole
Claralyn and Jon Quarles
Mr. and Mrs. B. Franklin Rassieur, Jr.
Freda and Harry Rich
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry E. Ritter
Elizabeth and Richard Robb
Mr. and Mrs. Einar S. Ross
The G. Harig Ruenzi Family
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Saleeby, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Schiele
Craig D. Schnuck
Julie and Todd Schnuck
Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Schnuck
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Schwendinger, Schwendinger Family Charitable Trust of the Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation
Russell K. Scott
Joan and Chuck Sheppard
Shirley B. and Donald J. Sher
G. Robert Sido
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin J. Siteman
Mrs. Audrey J. Steinfeld^
Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Streett
Donald M. Suggs
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Tegeler
Mrs. Joan Westin Wendt
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Whitehead, Jr.
Donna Wilkinson
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Williams, Jr.
Ericca and Keith Willis
Susan and Frank Wolff
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Woods
Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Wrighton
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Yaeger
Mrs. Paul H. Young, Jr. and Family
Corporate
Allied Intelligence, Inc.
AT&T Missouri
Belden Technologies, Inc.
CBIZ, Inc.
Committee to Elect Steven E. Ehlmann
Charles E. Jarrell Contracting Company
^Deceased
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Community Support
Community Support
Leadership Gifts
We are grateful to the following donors
for their leadership support:
Anonymous
Susan Buder and H.L. Buder Trust
Miss Marian L. Herr^
Mrs. E. Desmond Lee
Mabel L. Purkerson, M.D.
Mrs. Catherine H. Schumann^
Mrs. Audrey J. Steinfeld^
Mr. Jack C. Taylor
Corporate and
Foundation Gifts
The Chouteau Society
We are grateful to those who have made
a bequest or other planned gift to benefit
the Missouri History Museum:
We are grateful to the following corporate
foundations for their support:
Absolute Good Training
Ameren
Anonymous
Ascension Health
AT&T Missouri
Edward L. Bakewell, Jr. Charitable Lead Trust
Bellefontaine Cemetery Association
William K. Bixby Book and Publication Fund of the Greater St. Louis Community
Foundation
William K. Bixby Charitable Trust
The Boeing Company
Bogey Club
Arthur M. Branch, Jr. Memorial Fund
Dana Brown Charitable Trust
Bryan Cave
BSI Constructors, Inc.
Bunge North America, Inc.
Jane Spencer Burke Trust
CBIZ, Inc.
Centene Charitable Foundation
Christ Memorial Baptist Church
The Civil War Round Table of St. Louis
Clear Channel Media + Entertainment
St. Louis
Commerce Bancshares, Inc.
T. Danis Charitable Trust
Edward Jones
Emerson Charitable Trust
Employees Community Fund of Boeing
St. Louis
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Fox Family Foundation
E. Reuben and Gladys Flora Grant
Charitable Trust
Great Rivers Greenway
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation
Heart of Oak Foundation
Hecker Family Foundation
The Hermann Foundation
IBM Corporation
Institute of Museum & Library Services
Interco Charitable Trust
The Jackes Foundation
Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Jordan Charitable Foundation
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Kuhn Foundation
Laclede Gas Company
Margaret Blanke Grigg Foundation
Millstone Foundation
Missouri Arts Council
Monsanto
1904 World’s Fair Society
Northern Trust Charitable Trust
John M. Olin Charitable Trust
William R. Orthwein, Jr. and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation
Peabody Energy
Pelopidas
Pershing Place Foundation
Raibrook Foundation
Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation
The Saigh Foundation
Stupp Brothers Bridge and Iron Company Foundation
J.W. Terrill
The Trio Foundation of St. Louis
Thomas Hill Ward Foundation
Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
Herbert A. and Adrian Woods Foundation
Edward H. and Rosemary Young Fund of the
Greater St. Louis Community Foundation
YP
Mrs. Dominick A. Alessi
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Bieger
Professor Eugene A. Carroll
Carol J. Colligan
Mrs. Joel F. Cooley
Joseph E. Corrigan
Reverend Dr. John N. Doggett, Jr.^
Gwendoline M. Dressel
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Fulstone
Mr. and Mrs. Ted L. Goedecke
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Goerke
Mary Gorman
Eugene E. Guttin
Nancy M. Hamilton
Mrs. Albert Kirchhoefer
Mary Ann Lee
Sally G. Lefler
Reverend Joseph C. Lindell, Jr.
L. Max Lippman, Jr.^
Mrs. Stanley L. Lopata
Margaret and Herman Louer
Betsy J. Maier
Mrs. Jefferson Miller
Dorothy A. Moes
Mariko A. Nutt
Mrs. Jules B. Orabka
Larry A. Paule
Jane Hardesty Poole
Iris and Timothy Roberts
The G. Harig Ruenzi Family
Mrs. Ben Schneiderman
Evelyn S. Terrall
Margaret Uhlemeyer
Apostle Paul Vance^ (Deceased upon printing of this report)
Howard J. Wilkinson, Jr.
^Deceased
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