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Last Name Jacques / Jaques

Given Name Bertha Evelyn

alt. Names B. E. J.; Jaques / maiden name: Bertha Clausen ;

Marriage ? w. Mr. Jacques?

Children

Year born 1863 in Covington, Ohio

Year died 1941

Place of death

Father's occupation Mr. Clausen, a surgeon (an 1883 graduate of Cornell College whom she met in Mt. Vernon, Iowa)

Relatives

Education autodidact

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for more than 1000 cyanotypes of local flora, c. 1910 near Chicago ;

Patronage Wildflower Preservation Society (member); Chicago Society of Etchers (founder in 1910);

Collaborators

Techniques botanical drawing, etching, and cyanotype prints

Sample(s) www.allinsongallery.com/jaques/ ; www.crma.org/Event/Detail/740/Exhibition-Closes-Bertha-Jaques-Botanical-Prints-and-Photographs.aspx

Archival sources http://thebluelantern.blogspot.de/2008/07/bertha-jaques.html ; www.crma.org/content/collection/Bertha-Jaques.aspx

Published sources

other Born in Covington, Ohio, lived in Cedar Rapids 1885-89; later in Chicago.

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