Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1905, Oct. 2 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1927 | A.B., Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. |
| 1928 | Courier and guide for doctors with the Frontier Nursing Service in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky |
| 1929 | Became the first female pilot in Maine |
| 1930 | Cinematographer, The Forgotten Frontier, a silent film about the Frontier Nursing Service |
| 1930-1932 | Secretarial assistant to Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee |
| 1931 | Cinematographer for She Goes to Vassar, documenting a student’s arrival on the campus of Vassar College |
| 1932 | Accompanied Olivia Stokes Hatch, a friend, and Hatch's parents from Capetown, Africa, to Cairo, Egypt |
| 1934-1935 | Intern for Congresswoman Isabella Selmes Greenway, her cousin and godmother |
| 1936 | Student of photography, Clarence White School, New York, N.Y. |
| 1936-1939 | Operated her own photography studio, New York, N.Y. |
| 1936-1955 | Trustee, Frontier Nursing Service |
| 1939 | Photographer of the first pictures of a London, England, air-raid shelter at the beginning of World War II |
| 1939-1940 | Broadcaster, "World News Roundup," CBS Radio Network |
| 1940 | Married Jefferson Patterson in Berlin, Germany (died 1977) Resigned from the CBS Radio Network |
| 1960-1975 | National chairman, Frontier Nursing Service |
| 1972-1978 | Member, National Council of Society of Woman Geographers |
| 1974 | Donated River House, the Isabella Goodrich family house, located in York, Maine, to Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine |
| 1980 | Photographer for illustrations of Olivia’s African Diary |
| 1983 | Donated her and her husband’s farm on the Patuxent River in Calvert County to the state of Maryland |
| 2002, Dec. 4 | Died, Washington, D.C. |