This month, UWM’s Distinctive Collections are highlighting women for Women’s History Mon
This month, UWM’s Distinctive Collections are highlighting women for Women’s History Month. Throughout this month, each collection will be showcasing 5 women artists! Be sure to check out @uwmarchives & @uwmspeccoll for their artists. Our first artist is Mary Jo Read: Mary Jo Read (1911-1998), a specialist in the cultural geography of Latin America, was a faculty member in UWM’s geography department for 25 years and chaired the department 1958-63. She later served as professor of geography at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, retiring in 1975. Read was an avid traveler and photographer, and one of the first tourists to visit Antarctica. AGSL has digitized 250 images she took during a 1935 visit to China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. Other images can be found in the Mary Jo Read Collection on the AGSL Digital Collections website. -- source link
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