MRS. OSGOOD FIELD DEAD.; Husband's Bric-a-Brac Collection Now Goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It was learned here yesterday that Mrs. Osgood Field of this city died at the Hotel National, in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Friday last. Her three cousins, Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Julia Wells, were present when she died. She was the widow of Osgood Field, who died in Paris last November.
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Alice Withrow is mainly identified with her work as a social scientist and her affilitation with the Kinsey Institute for research in sex, gender and reproduction. 1n 1929 she married William Osgood Field, a glaciologist who specialized in Russian geography and culture. The couple would travel to the Soviet Union at least twice, where Alice reported on education and women and family relations there in the 1920s and 30s. See the Alice Withrow Field Reference Library.
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Great Link: Images of Russia & Caucasus Region 1929 - 1933
This digital collection presents over 700 images of Russia and the Caucasus region, particularly of rural areas in Georgia and Dagestan. The photographs, taken by William O. Field in the late 1920s and early 1930s, are housed at the American Geographical Society Library. The photographic collection is supplemented by Field's diaries and travel notes, and a selection of maps of the Caucasus region. Read more about the project...
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