{"id":127719,"date":"2026-01-22T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127719\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:52:32","slug":"james-museum-needs-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127719\/","title":{"rendered":"James Museum needs your help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thejamesmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art<\/a> opened in 2018 in St. Pete.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are nine galleries that show about 500 artifacts in their 4,000-piece collection.<\/p>\n<p>And currently in their special exhibition space\u2014Edward R. Curtis photographs. Curtis spent 30 years documenting more than 80 Native American communities.<\/p>\n<p>A gallery inside the Curtis exhibition holds more than 80 portraits \u2013one for each the communities he visited.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Curator Caitlin Pendola is working to identify the unknown people in Curtis\u2019s portrait work.<\/p>\n<p>There are booklets of information available for visitors, with as much information as they have on Native American portraits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have QR codes so that the public, if they have information, can write me directly,\u201d said Pendola.<\/p>\n<p>She acknowledges it may take years, but they\u2019ve already had success through family identification. Her hope is more people see the works. \u201cEdward S. Curtis: Photographer of His Time\u201d is on display through March 29th, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art opened in 2018 in St. Pete.\u00a0 There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7147,7150,28,7151,115,139,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,7148,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-127719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-chefs-kitchen","9":"tag-app-florida-on-a-tankful","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-on-a-tankful","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-pinellas-county","15":"tag-st-pete","16":"tag-st-pete-headlines","17":"tag-st-pete-news","18":"tag-st-petersburg","19":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","20":"tag-st-petersburg-news","21":"tag-tampa","22":"tag-virginia-johnson","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}