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831: 150: 285:"A camera is a very delightful adjunct, for it is pleasant to have some tangible results to show, on your return home. A Kodak, if no larger instrument can be managed, yields most satisfactory results, although the better records from a larger-sized camera are an increased delight, when one has the patience and skill to obtain them. For changing plates in camp, an improvised tepee can be made of the blankets, and, if this is done after sundown, is quite satisfactory." 142: 31: 198:
In 1880, her mother died and at 19 years old Vaux took on the responsibility of caring for her father and two younger brothers. After 1887, she and her brothers went back to western Canada almost every summer. During this time she became an active mountain climber, outdoors woman, and photographer.
222:. She played an active part in her husband's projects, returning to the Rockies with him several times and continuing to paint wildflowers. In 1925, the Smithsonian published some 400 of her illustrations, accompanied by brief descriptions, in a five-volume work entitled 207:, she was encouraged to concentrate on botanical illustration. She spent many years exploring the rugged terrain of the Canadian Rockies to find important flowering species to paint. On these trips, Vaux became the first woman to accomplish the over 10,000 feet ascent of 314:
Upon her death in 1940, Mary Vaux Walcott bequeathed $ 400,000 to the Smithsonian Institution as an addition to the fund she and her husband, Charles Walcott, created for geological research and publication.
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and raised money to erect the Florida Avenue Meeting House, so that the first Quaker President and his wife would have a proper place to worship. From 1927 to 1932, Mary Vaux Walcott served on the federal
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in Philadelphia in 1879, she took an interest in watercolor painting. When she was not working on the family farm, she began painting illustrations of wildflowers that she saw on family trips to the
211:. In 1887, on her first transcontinental trip via rail, she wrote an engaging travel journal of the family's four-month trek through the American West and the Canadian Rockies. 295:"The glaciers must be measured, and I shall hope to use the camera seriously, and get all I can. Last summer's work was such a disappointment in photographic results." 936: 941: 850: 931: 926: 393: 911: 906: 921: 916: 304:"Sometimes I feel that I can hardly wait till the time comes to escape from city life, to the free air of the everlasting hills." 792: 485: 329: 896: 458: 378: 226:, the proceeds of which went to the Smithsonian's endowment. In Washington, Vaux became a close friend of First Lady 235:
and, driven by her chauffeur, traveled extensively throughout the American West, diligently visiting reservations.
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When she was 75, she made her first trip abroad to Japan to visit lifelong friend and fellow Philadelphia Quaker,
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Over her father's fierce objections, in 1914 Mary Vaux, then 54, married the paleontologist
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in drawings and photographs. The trips to the Canadian Rockies sparked her interest in
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Images of paintings from the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
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A Delicate Art: Artists, Wildflowers and Native Plants of the West
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United States artist, photographer, botanist and naturalist
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Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Mary Morris Vaux Walcott
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Picture Journal including photographs of and by Mary Vaux
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No Ordinary Woman: The Story of Mary Schäffer Warren
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Smithsonian American Art Museum 364: 249:She was elected president of the 159:(arrowleaf balsamroot) by Walcott 756:Smithsonian Institution Archives 692:Smithsonian Institution Archives 686:Henson, Pamela M. (2015-03-26). 48:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. 912:20th-century American botanists 907:19th-century American botanists 809:International Plant Names Index 801: 768: 743: 704: 679: 602:Canadian Women Artists Database 259:Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal 922:20th-century American painters 917:19th-century American painters 655: 616: 590: 453:. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Press. 442: 422: 361:, and they were good friends. 1: 775:Beck, Janice Sanford (2001). 598:"VAUX, Mary Morris (Walcott)" 474:Mary-Beth Laviolette (2012). 435: 233:Board of Indian Commissioners 740:. Accessed October 10, 2017. 251:Society of Woman Geographers 108:Author abbrev. (botany) 68:Saint Andrews, New Brunswick 7: 449:Jones, Marjorie G. (2016). 224:North American Wild Flowers 10: 958: 371:North American Wildflowers 271:St. Andrews, New Brunswick 165:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 309: 216:Charles Doolittle Walcott 187:and recorded the flow of 116: 106: 96: 88: 81: 73: 53: 37: 28: 21: 897:American women botanists 415: 123:Mary Morris Vaux Walcott 717:Canadian Alpine Journal 290:On measuring glaciers: 220:Smithsonian Institution 145:Mary Vaux Walcott, 1914 136: 101:Smithsonian Institution 711:Vaux, Mary M. 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Index


Smithsonian Institution
Author abbrev. (botany)
naturalist
wildflowers


Balsamorhiza sagittata
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Quaker
Friends Select School
Rocky Mountains
Canada
mineralogy
glaciers
geology
arnica
botanist
Mount Stephen
Charles Doolittle Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Lou Henry Hoover
Board of Indian Commissioners
Mary Elkinton Nitobe
Inazo Nitobe
Society of Woman Geographers
Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal
pre-Cambrian
Cambrian
St. Andrews, New Brunswick

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