Armer, Laura Adams, 1874-1963

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Dates:
Birth 1874-01-12
Death 1963-03-16

Biographical notes:

Laura Adams Armer was active in San Francisco from 1899 to 1902 in her studio in the Flood Building. She continued to work in Berkeley after her marriage to Sidney Armer in 1902.

From the description of Photograph album of portraits of men, women, and children [graphic] / Laura Adams Armer. [ca. 1900-1912] (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122381807

Laura May Adams was born in 1874 in Sacramento, California. Beginning 1893, she studied painting at the California School of Design in San Francisco. She married artist Sidney Armer in 1902. Working first as a photographer, then in mid-life as an author and illustrator of children's books with Southwestern themes, she died in Humboldt County, California, in 1963.

From the description of Laura Adams Armer papers, 1961-1963. (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 441972844

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Subjects:

  • Overland journeys to the Pacific
  • Pioneers
  • Women

Occupations:

  • Photographers

Places:

  • West (U.S.) (as recorded)
  • San Francisco (Calif.) (as recorded)
  • Mesa Verde (Colo.) (as recorded)
  • California--San Francisco (as recorded)
  • California (as recorded)

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