John Burroughs and Ursula Burroughs at Woodchuck Lodge, 1910-1915
THF241319 / John Burroughs and Ursula Burroughs at Woodchuck Lodge, 1910-1915
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Artifact Overview
In 1857, John Burroughs, a twenty-year-old itinerant schoolmaster and would be writer, married Ursula North, the daughter of a prosperous Ulster County, New York, farmer. Their marriage was unhappy almost from the start. As John became an internationally known nature writer, he became detached from his increasingly critical wife. The two, however, stayed married until Ursula's passing in 1917.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
1910-1915
Subject Date
1910-1915
Creator Notes
Photograph by Albert Houghton Pratt.
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
00.1334.400
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 3.313 in
Width: 2.313 in
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SetJohn Burroughs: American Naturalist
- 19 Artifacts
John Burroughs was a keen observer of the natural world. He hiked the woods around his native Catskills home, fished the streams, listened to birdsongs, and cataloged the world he found there in essays that influenced others to find that same love of nature. While other naturalists celebrated towering mountains, scenic vistas, and the untamed wilderness, Burroughs urged his readers to find grandeur in the local, accessible, and familiar.