Victor Boesen papers 1908-2003
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Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952
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Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer and ethnologist, was born near Whitewater, WI, in 1868 and grew up in Seattle, WA. Fascinated with the Indians and their way of life he embarked on lifelong career dedicated to presenting "the very spirit of the Indian peoples" in photographs, film, recordings and print. George Bird Grinnell, an authority on Indians, appointed him Official Photographer to the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. Curtis' dream of a comprehensive written and photographic...
Lear, William Powell, 1902-
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Industrialist, inventor;interviewee d.1978. From the description of Reminiscences of William Powell Lear : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513485 ...
Boesen, Victor
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Victor Boesen (1908-2006) was a journalist and non-fiction writer. Boesen began his writing career in Chicago during the 1930s, and during World War II worked as a press correspondent in the Pacific Theater for Liberty Magazine. After the war Boesen worked as a freelance writer and authored several non-fiction books. Topics written about by Boesen included biographies of Bill Lear and Edward Sheriff Curtis, Mercedes-Benz Company, and environment and climate issues. From the descripti...
