Helen Francesca Traubel. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N13460]

One of the world’s great Wagnerian sopranos, Helen Traubel was born in south St. Louis on…

Carl Wimar, circa 1860. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38636]

In his St. Louis studio, Charles “Carl” Ferdinand Wimar painted the Missouri River frontier…