Many sketches like those below were drawn by Helen Miller Bailey during her world travels and later used to develop the over 900 oil paintings she completed. Helen sold most of her paintings to fund student scholarships. She also filmed her world travels between 1934 and 1960. Since Helen is one of the first known female travelographers, University of Southern California of Cinematic Arts has digitized her films, which are available at www.uschefnerarchive.com/project/baileyfilms. Helen’s paintings, slide shows, and films were used to augment her history lectures at East Los Angeles College. Decades later, college professors would similarly enliven their lectures using PowerPoint presentations and Internet websites displayed on massive overhead projection screens. Always ahead of her time, Helen did the same thing without any modern technology.
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