Packing for Yellowstone: Dress and Culture in the Worlds First National Park

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Yellowstone National Park Heritage and Research Center archivist Anne Foster explores what exactly one wears in a national park. Her presentation, Packing for Yellowstone: Dress and Culture in the World’s First National Park, combines historical photographs, audience participation, and reproduction clothing to explore the development of the active leisure style and its influence on gender roles, social status, industrialization, and cultural norms.