Clara Louise Hagins
Illustration — Clara Louise Hagins, from a 1914 publication. Clara Louise Hagins (1871 – April 16, 1957) was an American photographer and clubwoman based in Chicago, Illinois.
Clara Louise Hagins
Morrison. derivative work: Begoon · Wilson's photographic magazine. v.51 (1914). Derived from https- see the history of this file below · Public domain
- Born
- 1871 · Chicago.
- Died
- 1957
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer
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Illustration — Clara Louise Hagins, from a 1914 publication. Clara Louise Hagins (1871 – April 16, 1957) was an American photographer and clubwoman based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Clara Louise Hagins (1871–1957) was a photographer, of American nationality. The photographer was born in Chicago.
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Early life
Early life
Clara Louise Hagins was born in Chicago, the daughter of John L. Hagins and Mary Ann McCormick Hagins. She had a younger sister, Alice Mary Hagins.
Career
Career
Hagins was a secretary and photographer at the William McKenzie Morrison portrait studio in Chicago. She was active in the Women's Federation of the Photographers' Association of America. She served as first vice president in the federation's executive board in 1914 and 1915, working with Maybelle Goodlander and the Gerhard Sisters, and she managed "the Circle", the federation's traveling collection of members' work. In 1921 she was vice-president of the Photographers' Association of America, at their meeting in Buffalo, New York. She was also active in the Association of Women's Clubs in Chicago, and in the Dickens Fellowship of Chicago.
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Personal life
Hagins moved to Tampa, Florida by the 1940s, and died there in 1957, aged 85 years.
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- 1."Miss Clara Hagins" The Tampa Tribune (April 17, 1957): 2. via Newspapers.com
- 2.Pearl Grace Loehr, "The Relation of the Women's Federation to the Photographic Profession" Wilson's Photographic Magazine (January 1914): 10.
- 3.Clara Louise Hagins, "To Women Photographers" Wilson's Photographic Magazine (January 1914): 39.
- 4.Clara Louise Hagins, "The Traveling Exhibit of the Women's Federation of Photographers" Wilson's Photographic Magazine (April 1914): 190-191.
- 5."Demonstrate Art of Picture-Taking" Buffalo Times (July 19, 1921): 9. via Newspapers.com
- 6."In Passing By" Abel's Photographic Weekly (July 30, 1921): 789.
- 7."Our Branch's Beginnings" Dickens Fellowship of Chicago.
- 8.Death notices, Tampa Tribune (April 18, 1957): 2. via Newspapers.com
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