Monthly Archives: June 2015

Second Night at the Museum: Hansel Mieth, Pioneering Woman Photojournalist

The Second HSSR Members Only Night at the Museum, led by museum curator Eric Stanley, featured the Sonoma County History Museum’s exhibit on Hansel Mieth. A pioneering woman photojournalist, who along with her husband, Otto Hagel, captured compelling images of mid-20th century America. The two were born in Germany but came to America and bought a ranch near Santa Rosa in 1941. Hagel died in 1973 and Mieth followed in 1998.