Katherine Hamilton Smith: Katherine is a museum and archives professional with 30+ years of experience in public history, historic sights management, exhibition and interpretation, collections development and care, National Historic Landmarks and fundraising.
Katherine is the founding curator Curt Teich Postcard Archives - a core collection of the Newberry Library, located in Chicago, Illinois.
She has exceptional skills in building bridges between elected officials and foundation/friends boards to achieve public goals. Under her direction over $30 million in private money has been raised to support public history and conservation initiatives.
Katherine is a Certified Archivist. She holds a master's in Art History from the University of Chicago, with honors; a bachelors degree in Art History, magna cum laude, from the University of Nebraska; and studied art history and music history at St. Andrews University in Scotland.
Katherine is also listed as a Illinois Humanities "Road Scholar", speaking on the subject of postcards. You can find information about this and the presentation "The Happy Invention:History and Significance of Picture Postcards" here. https://ilhumanities.org/programs/road-scholars-speakers-bureau.