Niendorff, Hazel W. (Hazel Wood), 1898-1991

Hazel (Wood) Niendorff worked in the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in the Research and Statistical Dept. in the 1920s. Married to Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Fred Niendorff, Hazel Niendorff had a passion for maritime history, particularly for the history of maritime disasters; she made a lifelong project of researching, collecting, and organizing materials to create a comprehensive record of North Pacific marine disasters. Niendorff was considered an authority in the field, and was solicited in the 1960s to serve on the review board for Gordon Newell's The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.

From the description of Hazel W. Niendorff scrapbooks on North Pacific marine casualties and maritime history, ca. 1920s-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191745999

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