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List Of Female Archivists
This is a list of female archivists. See also * List of archivists * List of female librarians * Lists of women {{Libraries and library science Archivists female archivists Female ( symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Fries
Dr. Adelaide Lisetta Fries (12 November 1871–29 November 1949) was the foremost scholar of the history and genealogy of the Moravians in the southern United States. She made important contributions to the field as archivist, translator, author and editor. Biography Fries was born in Salem (now Winston-Salem), North Carolina, the elder of two daughters of John William Fries (1846–1927) and Agnes Sophia (de Schweinitz) Fries (1849–1915). Her family was prominent in the Moravian Church and community, with a history dating back to Nicolaus Zinzendorf, who has been called the father of the renewed Moravian church. Fries attended Salem Academy and graduated in 1888, later receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Salem College. She never married, and lived with her parents in Winston-Salem until their deaths. Her sister was Mary Elenor Fries Blair (1873-1966). On September 26, 1911, the Provincial Elders' Conference of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, appoint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Heaps
Elizabeth Heaps is an English university administrator and academic at the University of York, who has been Pro-Vice-Chancellor there since October 2007, one of the four key positions which support the University's Vice-Chancellor. Her duties include responsibility for Estates and Strategic Projects, including the growth of the campus agreed on its Heslington East site. She was Head of the University Library from 1997, where her role included responsibility for the Borthwick Institute for Archives, one of the biggest British archive repositories, particularly for ecclesiastical material. Founded in 1957, the Institute holds archives from all around the world, from the 12th century to the present day. She was elected to the University Council in 1999, and has sat on the Council since then. Within the University she is also a member of Court, Planning Committee, Senate, Information Committee and the Strategic Information Projects Implementation Group. As a qualified professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Gowing
Margaret Mary Gowing (), (26 April 1921 – 7 November 1998) was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored ''History of the Second World War'', but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programmes: ''Britain and Atomic Energy 1939–1945'', published in 1964, and the two-volume ''Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy 1945–52'', published in 1974. Through her work in the Cabinet Office from 1945 to 1959, she knew personally many of the people involved. As historian archivist at the UK Atomic Energy Authority from 1959 to 1966 she had access to the official papers and files of the British nuclear weapons programmes. She was the first occupant of a chair in the history of science at the University of Oxford, which she held from 1972 until her retirement in 1986. As co-founder with physici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Cross Norton
Margaret Cross Norton (July 7, 1891 – May 21, 1984) served as the first State Archivist of Illinois from 1922 to 1957 and co-founded the Society of American Archivists in 1936, where she served as the first vice president from 1936–1937 and president from 1943–1945. She also served as editor of the ''American Archivist'' from 1946–1949. Norton was posthumously recognized in the December 1999 ''American Libraries'' article naming "100 of the most important leaders we had in the 20th century" for her influence on the archival profession. Norton promoted the establishment of archives as a profession separate from history or library science and developed the American archival tradition to emphasize an administrator/archivist rather than an historian/archivist. She encouraged learning through experimentation, practical usage, and community discussion. While editor of ''The American Archivist'' she emphasized technical rather than scholarly issues, believing that archival r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Favier
Lucie Favier (4 August 1932, Fes, French Morocco The French protectorate in Morocco (french: Protectorat français au Maroc; ar, الحماية الفرنسية في المغرب), also known as French Morocco, was the period of French colonial rule in Morocco between 1912 to 1956. The prote ... – 19 October 2003) was a French archivist, married to French historian Jean Favier. Biography She studied at the École nationale des chartes, obtaining the title of archivist paleographer in 1956. She then spent two years in Rome as a researcher at the CNRS. On her return, she was appointed to the National Archives, where she spent most of her career from 1959 to 1988. She started as a curator in the information service (1959-1984) and was appointed secretary general in 1984. In this capacity, she piloted the construction of the Reception and Research Center of the National Archives, known as CARAN. She also contributed to the renovation of the Museum of the History of Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilli Gjerløw
Lilli Gjerløw (19 June 1910 – 4 December 1998) was a Norwegian archivist and liturgical historian. She was employed at the National Archives of Norway for 45 years. Biography She was born in Nord-Audnedal as a daughter of vicar John Jenssøn Gjerløw (1856–1915) and Agnes Christine Boye. The family (after the father's death) moved to Arendal when she was young. She was a niece of Mons Klingenberg Gjerløw and Ragnvald Gjerløw and a first cousin of Olaf Gjerløw. From 1946 to 1949 she was married to Albert Lange Fliflet (1908–2001). She took the examen artium in 1929 in Arendal and then the preparatory tests at the University of Oslo. She studied palaeography at the École Nationale des Chartes from 1932 to 1935. In 1937 she did archival studies in Sweden, Finland and Scotland, and in 1938 in the Vatican Archives. She worked at Norsk Historisk Kjeldeskriftinstitutt, a department of the National Archives of Norway from 1935 to 1980. She took the dr.philos. degree in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Buck
Julie Anne Buck (born December 9, 1974) is an American film producer, collage artist, photographer, experimental filmmaker, and film archivist. Life Buck studied at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. After graduating, she became the manager for the Harvard Film Archive at Harvard University. While sorting and preserving films in the Archive's collection, she and her friend and co-archivist Karin Segal became interested in the images of women (known as "China girls") which often appear on the leaders of older films. Buck and Segal began the long process of digitally cleaning, restoring and printing these enigmatic images for an art exhibit titled "Girls On Film," a visual tribute to the many anonymous women who worked in the film industry. At the same time, Buck began to experiment with collage. Her first large-format collage, ''Black-Haired Girl: Karin'', depicted Segal, with a challenging stare, raising a glass of orange juice at the viewer. Buck has creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Sinar
Joan Collier Sinar, later Ferguson, (1 May 1925Her ''Telegraph'' obituary gives her birthdate as 1 June, but this is corrected in Riden 2015. – 18 January 2015) was an English archivist who set up the county record offices for Devon and Derbyshire. Career Sinar was born in Leigh, Lancashire, the daughter of Frank Sinar, a mining surveyor, and his wife Ruth, Collier. She was educated at Leigh Girls' Grammar School and at Somerville College, Oxford University, where she studied Modern History.Riden 2015. At Somerville she was a contemporary and friend of Margaret Roberts (later Thatcher).''Telegraph'' obituary. She graduated in 1946, and went on to study for an MA at the University of Manchester, awarded in 1949. She began work in 1948 as an assistant archivist at Staffordshire Record Office (established a year earlier). In 1952 she took up an appointment as Assistant Records Officer (effectively county archivist) for Devon, where she established the Devon Record Office. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jehanne Wake
Jehanne Deirdre Alexandra Wake (née Williams) is a British biographer, historian and archivist. She has written critically acclaimed biographies of Princess Louise, the sixth child of Queen Victoria, and of the four early American Caton sisters known as "the American graces", amongst other books. Life Jehanne Wake had an international upbringing before she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford University. She was one of the first generation of female graduate trainee investment bankers in the City of London. She is married and lives with her family in West London. Works Wake is the author of several non-fiction books and corporate histories. She has also contributed to BBC television and radio programmes as a talking head. She appeared on ''Reputations: Florence Nightingale'' (BBC) and ''Reputations: Prince Albert'' (BBC). Her books to date include: Her latest book, ''Sisters of Fortune'', published in August 2010, is a biography of four American heir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Henriette Van Eeghen
Isabella Henriette van Eeghen (3 February 1913 – 26 November 1996), usually cited as I. H. van Eeghen, was a Dutch historian who worked for the Stadsarchief Amsterdam. Early life and education Van Eeghen was born in Amsterdam as the daughter of the banker Christiaan Pieter van Eeghen in an Amsterdam canal mansion on 497 Herengracht that today is known as the KattenKabinet. Her father and grandfather were directors of Van Eeghen & Co. a bank active on the Herengracht since the 17th-century. Today, what remains of the firm is part of Bank Oyens & Van Eeghen. The young Isa was therefore quite wealthy, and determined to follow in the footsteps of her grandfather, also called Christiaan Pieter van Eeghen, who in his free time set up the Vondelpark and was responsible for various improvements to the Van der Hoop museum in 1854, the forerunner of the Rijksmuseum. It was the elder Van Eeghen who paid to have the paintings in the Amsterdam surgeons' guild restored in 1865, among them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Willa Samuels
Helen Willa Samuels (born 1943) is an American archivist and scholar in archival studies. She is best known for her essay "Who Controls the Past", which introduced the concept of archival documentation strategy, and her book ''Varsity Letters: Documenting Modern Colleges and Universities''. Biography Helen Samuels was born in Queens, New York City, in 1943. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College in 1964 and a Masters in Library Science from Simmons College in 1965. She began her career in libraries in 1967 as the Music Specialist at the Massachusetts Public Library in Brookline, and worked as the Music Librarian at the Hilles Library at Radcliffe College until 1972. In 1972 she was hired by the University of Cincinnati to run their fledgling archival program, a repository participating of the Ohio Historical Society's regional network. There she collaborated with faculty in the history department in order to create the university's first institutional archive, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
