Society of Woman Geographers Records 1910-1998

Harrison, Marguerite, 1878-1967

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Marguerite Elton Harrison (1879–1967) was one of two daughters of wealthy Maryland shipping magnate Bernard N. Baker and his wife Elizabeth Elton (Livezey) Baker. In 1905, Harrison spearheaded an effort to open a school for indigent convalescent children. In 1915, Harrison's husband died of a brain tumor, leaving her and her 13-year-old son deeply in debt from his outstanding loans. Despite having completed only one semester of college and with no appropriate training, she used her brother-in-la...

Lee, Muna, 1895?-1970.

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Douglas, Marjorie Stoneman.

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Smith, Helen B.

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Peary, Marie Ahnighito, 1893-1978

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Marie Ahnighito Peary was born in Northwest Greenland on September 12, 1893, to arctic explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and his wife, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, of Portland, Maine, and Washington, DC. Their daughter became known world-wide as the "Snow Baby," a name given to her by the Greenland natives who had never before seen a white baby. In 1909, when Marie was 16 years old, Admiral Peary became the first white man to lead a successful expedition to the North Pole. In 1917, Marie Peary...

Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964

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Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was a biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries before becoming a successful author. Late in the 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially some problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was the book Silent Spring ...

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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Amelia Mary Earhart (AE) was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the first daughter of Amy (Otis) Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Grace Muriel, was born three years later. The family moved several times (to Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines; St. Paul; Chicago) during AE's childhood as her father tried unsuccessfully to establish a profitable legal career. AE graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. ESE's increasing reliance on al...

Niles, Blair, 1880-1959

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Blair Niles (née Mary Blair Rice, 1880–1959) was an American novelist and travel writer. She was a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers. Born Mary Blair Rice, Blair was born on The Oaks, her parents' plantation in Staunton, Virginia. She was educated at home by her mother, Marie Gordon "Gordy" Rice, who taught a night school for her four children and children of the sharecroppers. At age 14, Blair attended the Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in Massachusetts and then the P...

Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977

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Frances Payne Bingham Bolton (March 29, 1885 – March 9, 1977) was a Republican politician from Ohio. She served in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio. In the late 1930s Bolton took an isolationist position on foreign policy, opposing the Selective Service Act (the draft) in 1940, and opposing Lend-Lease in 1941. During the war she called for desegregation of the military nursing units, which were all-white and all-female. In 1947 she...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957

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Frances Theresa Densmore was born on May 21, 1867 in Red Wing, Minnesota. She studied at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music from 1884 to 1887. Her professional interest in the music of Native Americans dates from the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1905, she made her first visit to the Minnesota tribes and in 1907 began to record Indian music under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. During her fifty years with the Bureau, she recorded near...

Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958

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Historian, feminist, and author. Married historian Charles Beard. From the description of Papers, 1935-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006703 From the description of Letters, 1937-1942 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008676 Beard was an American author and historian. From the description of Correspondence: [1938?]-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180912 Mary Ritter Bear...

Felland, Nordis Adelheid, 1901-

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Briggs, Berta N. (Berta Nabersberg), 1884-1976

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Painter, lithographer, graver, and teacher (New York City). From the description of Berta Briggs papers, 1930-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122545549 ...

Foster, Alice, 1872-1962

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Adams, Harriet Chalmers, 1875-1937

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Harriet Chalmers Adams (October 22, 1875 – July 17, 1937[1]) was an explorer, writer and photographer. She traveled extensively in South America, Asia and the South Pacific in the early 20th century, and published accounts of her journeys in National Geographic magazine. She lectured frequently on her travels and illustrated her talks with color slides and movies....

Society of Woman Geographers

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Founded in 1925 to bring together women interested in geography, anthropology, world exploration, and allied disciplines. From the description of Records, 1925-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28424346 Founded in 1925 by Marguerite Harrison, Blair Niles, Gertrude Emerson Sen, and Gertrude Mathews Shelby to bring together women actively interested in geography, anthropology, world exploration, and allied disciplines. From the description of Society of Woman Ge...

Uhrbrock, Mildred G.

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Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965

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Davisson, Elizabeth Derr, 1899?-1965

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Landon, Margaret, 1903-1993

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Author. From the description of Anna and the king of Siam : literary manuscripts, circa 1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131952 ...

Boyd, Louise Arner, 1887-1972

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Louise Arner Boyd (b. September 16, 1887, San Rafael, California-d. September 14, 1972, San Francisco, California) was a geographer, big game hunter, patroness of the arts, and leader of eight expeditions into polar regions, including several to Greenland. In 1955 she flew over the North Pole to take photographs for the American Geographical Society. She held honorary degrees from the Universities of Alaska and California and from Mills College. ...

Grosvenor, Elsie May, 1878-1964

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Carpenter, Frances, 1890-1972

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Frances Carpenter was born in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 1890 to Joanna Condict and Frank G. Carpenter. She graduated from Smith College in 1912. Her father was a foreign correspondent and travelled extensively. Frances accompanied him on many of his travels as secretary and photographer. They co-authored several books including The Foods We Eat (1925), The Clothes We Wear (1926), and The Houses We Live In (1926). She also wrote Ourselves and Our City (1928), The Ways We Travel (1929), Tales ...

Tee-Van, Helen Damrosch, 1893-1976

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Helen Therese Damrosch Tee-Van (1893-1976) was born in New York City, the granddaughter of violinist and conductor Leopold Damrosch and the daughter of conductor Frank Damrosch. She attended the Veltin School until 1909, and then continued studying art with George de Forest Brush, becoming a member of Jonas Lie's Memory Sketch Club. From 1922 to 1963 she was an artist for the New York Zoological Society, and participated in expeditions of the Society's Tropical Research Dept., which included tra...

Strong, Helen M. (Helen Mabel), 1890-1973

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Akeley, Delia J. (Delia Julia), 1875?-1970

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Story, Isabelle F. (Isabelle Florence), 1888-1970

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Morse, Reba Forbes, -1982

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Smith, Helen B. (Helen Belle)

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Clark, Sally, 1883-1982

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Wright, Irene Aloha, 1879-1972

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Author, historian, public official, archivist and editor. From the description of Papers of Irene Aloha Wright, 1620-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132250 Biographical Note: Irene Aloha Wright, American writer and journalist, was born in 1879. She became a special writer for the "Havanna Post" (1904-1905) and city editor of the "Havanna Daily Telegraph" (1905-1907). She was owner and editor of "Cuba Magazine" (1908-1914). In 1910, Wright publ...

Hobart, Alice Tisdale, 1882-1967

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Alice Tisdale Hobart was born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York on January 28, 1882. In 1910, Alice went to China to teach at a girls' school in Hangchow, where she met Earle Tisdale Hobart, an executive of the Standard Oil Company of New York. They married in 1914 and spent the early years of their marriage in Manchuria amid the turbulence that followed the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. Alice began writing about her life in China and in 1916 she submitted an account of her encounter with Ma...

Peck, Annie S. (Annie Smith), 1850-1935

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Annie Smith Peck (b. Oct. 19, 1850, Providence, RI–d. July 18, 1935, New York, NY) grew up in Providence, RI and graduated from Rhode Island Normal School (1872); Peck wanted to attend Brown University but was not allowed as a woman. She briefly taught Latin at Providence High School before moving to Saginaw, MI to teach. She enrolled at the University of Michigan and earned a bachelors degree (1878) and a master's degree (1881). In 1885, Peck became the first woman to attend the American School...

Bradley, Mary Hastings.

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Mary Hastings Bradley (1882-1976) was a Chicago author, lecturer, journalist and traveler. Bradley was the author of numerous pieces of short fiction and novels, several of which were inspired by her expeditions to Africa in the 1920s. In 1945, Bradley became a war correspondent for Colliers Magazine reporting on women in the military in Italy, France, and Germany. Her experiences touring concentration camps after the close of the war became the basis for a feature series on the Holocaust. Mrs. ...

Haviland, Virginia, 1911-

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Crowe, Bettina Peter Lum, 1911-

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Nourse, Mary A. (Mary Augusta), 1880-1971

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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

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American anthropologist. From the description of Letter 1968 June 12. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38156541 Anthropologist. From the description of Collection re Margaret Mead, 1978-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131863 Anthropologist, author, and educator. From the description of Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068917 M...

Murray, Margaret Alice

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Harllee, Ella Fullmore, 1916?-1983

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Miss Harllee taught speech at AU, 1945-53, in the Dept. of Communication and its predecessors. She supervised the AU Radio Television Guild, which produced numerous radio and TV programs, and was also an innovator in religious programming for radio and television. From the description of Papers, 1945-1953, box 2. (American University). WorldCat record id: 426142143 From the description of Papers, 1945-1953, box 1. (American University). WorldCat record id: 426141827 ...

Brown, Muriel Agnes Eleanora Talbot, 1874-

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Cole, Mabel Cook, -approximately 1978

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Van Deman, Esther Boise, 1862-1937

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Archeologist. From the description of Esther Boise Van Deman papers, ca. 1870-1936. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419302 ...

Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was an American photographer, war correspondent, author and photojournalist. Among her many achievements, she was the first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures in the USSR of Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent, and the first female photographer for Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover. She was the author of more than ten books, including her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). She received numerous award...

Lowther, Florence de L. (Florence de Loiselle), 1884-1970

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Black, Ruby A. (Ruby Aurora), 1896-1957

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Journalist. From the description of Papers, 1916-1961 (bulk 1933-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149454 From the description of Papers of Ruby A. Black, 1916-1961 (bulk 1933-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456497 Biographical Note 1896, Sept. 14 Born, Thornton, Tex. 1913 Entered...

Ingersoll, Marion Crary, 1880-1972

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Campbell, Edna Fay, 1881-1969

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González Acha de Correa Morales, Elina, 1861-1942

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Olds, Elizabeth Fagg

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Douglas, Marjorie Stoneman.

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Noble, Ruth Crosby, 1897-

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Kroeber, Theodora

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Theodora Kroeber was born Theodora Covel Kracaw, in Denver, Colo. on Mar. 24, 1897. Kroeber, a writer, authored the book "Ishi in Two Worlds" (1961). Kroeber's second husband was the anthropologist, A.L. Kroeber. From the description of Theodora Kroeber papers, 1881-1983 (bulk 1960-1979). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 84653243 Born Theodora Covel Kracaw in Denver Colo. in 1897. Married Clifton Spencer Brown in 1921, Alfred L. Kroeber in 1926, and ...

Shelby, Gertrude Mathews, 1881-1937

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Vander Pyl, Mary Chamberlain, 1888-1979

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Craig, May, 1889?-1975

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Journalist. Full name: Elisabeth May Adams Craig (Mrs. Donald A. Craig). From the description of May Craig papers, 1929-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981818 Biographical Note circa 1889 Born Elizabeth May Adams, Coosaw, S.C. circa 1901 Moved to Wahington, D.C. ...

Douglass, Lucille Sinclair, -1935

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Lee, Muna, 1895? -1970.

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Jaques, Florence Page, 1890-1972

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Mills, Mary Lee, 1912-

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Dyhrenfurth, Hettie, 1892-

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Leakey, Mary D. (Mary Douglas), 1913-1996

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Gilpin, Laura, 1891-1979

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Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) photographed individuals and traditional life on the Navajo Indian reservation, Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, and American landscapes. From the description of An abandoned mine [art original] : Creede, Colorado. 1942. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 162101076 ...

Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968

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Rose Wilder Lane (1886-1968) was the daughter of author Laura Ingalls Wilder. She wrote The Making of Herbert Hoover in 1920. From the description of Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581647 ...

Andrews, Dorothy M. (Dorothy May), -1984

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Sen, Gertrude Emerson, -1982

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Colby, Mary McRae, 1899?-1985

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