Speaker: Rachel Miller 

Shipyard Workers, 1940. Photographer: Jack Delano. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rachel Miller, former MHS staff member and current University of Michigan graduate student in American Studies, shares her research on Bath Iron Works. Based on a series of 1940s photographs, Miller's presentation tracks the Farm Security Administration's move from an anti-poverty focus to wartime mobilization, while simultaneously exploring how the Federal Government used photography to make an argument about the deserving poor.

Intro to MHS: Library Tour  

Tour Guide: Nicholas Noyes, Curator of Library Collections

This 45-minute tour of the Brown Research Library, fully renovated in 2009, takes participants throughout the first floor reading room and behind-the-scenes into the archive, normally closed to the public. Nick Noyes covers the history of the building, architectural details, the basics of doing research in the library, and even shares a few treasures from the collection. E-mail us to sign up.