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  Charles Hitchcock Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in Belmont, California, the son of William and Cassandra Adams and the last of five children.
Charles was married to Olive Bray, and his wife gave birth to Ansel Easton Adams, the renowned artist-photographer.
The Adams crater on the Moon is co-named in his honor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Hitchcock_Adams   (259 words)

  
 Ansel Adams
Adams' explanation may give credit to luck, but in reality, each of his finished prints was a studied effort to achieve an artistic result.
Adams met Strand in 1930 in Taos, N.M. In the presence of Strand's dedication to creative photography, Adams decided to commit himself to a full-time career in photography and began accepting commercial assignments.
Adams celebrated his 80th birthday in 1982 amid 200 guests at a dinner sponsored by The Friends of Photography, during which he was presented with the Decoration of Commander in the Order of the Arts and Letters, the highest cultural award given by the French government to a foreigner.
www.apogeephoto.com /jan2001/ansel_adams.shtml   (1755 words)

  
 American Experience | Ansel Adams | People & Events
Adams, however, suffered a broken nose in an aftershock, when he was thrown against a brick wall.
Charles Adams was a very nurturing, understanding parent, who always encouraged his son to be the individual he was.
In the same year as his exhibit at "An American Place," which was a huge success, Adams was asked by the Sierra Club's board of directors to attend a conference on the national parks in Washington, D.C. He was to lobby in favor of establishing Kings Canyon as a national park.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ansel/peopleevents/p_aadams.html   (1455 words)

  
 Ansel Adams, roaming photographer, always came back to Yosemite - Roanoke.com
Adams' pictures fueled the modern environmental movement; but more than that, they captured the imagination of all America in a way that few visual artists have done before or since.
Adams' father, Charles Hitchcock Adams, owned a lumber company that failed; he spent much of the rest of his life paying off his debts.
Adams was a technical innovator who developed an 11-zone printing process to bring out a range of subtleties between light and dark.
www.roanoke.com /extra/28098.html   (1206 words)

  
 A Tribute to Ansel Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This shot of Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park California was shot in 1965, by Ted Spiegel.
Ansel Adams is was born in San Francisco in 1902, This shot of the Family House on Dunes San Francisco California, was taken in 1903, by Charles Hitchcock.
Adams Adams gave up a promising musical career when he discovered that a photograph could capture the emotion and awe with which he viewed the natural beauty of the world..
home.pacbell.net /thammon/online-art/AAdams.html   (426 words)

  
 Miscellaneous Adams County, NE, Obituaries
Survivors are her husband; three sons, Charles of Minden and David and Jeffrey, both of Grand Island; her mother of Minden; one brother, Gary Morrow of Cozad; and seven grandchildren.
Survivors are her husband; one son, Charles of Topeka, Kan.; two daughters, Joyce Hancock of Wichita, Kan., and Theresa Terry of Salina, Kan.; three sisters, Lois Thronson of Mankato, Opal Lyman of Mesa, Ariz., and Mary Crumrine of Apache Junction, Ariz.; nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
Hitchcock was born Jan. 20, 1933, to Thomas and Gladys (Bartley) Elliott in Webster County.
www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/ne/ne-adams34.htm   (3780 words)

  
 American Experience | Ansel Adams | Timeline
Charles Weed photographs Yosemite and displays his work in Sacramento at the Fifth Annual Fair of the State Agricultural Society.
Charles Hitchcock Adams, Ansel Adams's father, is born in California.
Winter: Adams is infected with the Spanish influenza, at the tail end of the worst epidemic in American history.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ansel/timeline   (944 words)

  
 Charles Baker Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hitchcock at the Geological Survey of New York.
Adams, C.B. Catalogue of the Mollusca of Middlebury, Vt., and vicinity, with observations.
Adams, C.B. Fresh-water and land shells of Vermont.
www.inhs.uiuc.edu /~ksc/Malacologists/AdamsC.B.html   (302 words)

  
 2005 Fine Art Auction • San Antonio Northwest Rotary Club Website
The grandson of wealthy timber baron, Adams grew up amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate, until his family fortune collapse in the financial panic of 1907.
In 1919 Adams joined the Sierra Club which proved to be a vital move in his early success as a photographer.
Adams felt an intense commitment to promoting photography as fine art and using it for the cause he committed his life to, the wilderness and the environment.
www.rotarynorthwest.com /2005ArtAuction_ArtistBios.html   (4877 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Heartbreaker: Music: Ryan Adams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But Adams, the notoriously raucous frontman for the defunct Whiskeytown, is a country boy at heart if not in attitude, so there is a lingering pastoral beauty that imbues the album with a happy sweetness as well.
With a touch of Robyn Hitchcock in his vocal timbre, a smidgen of Steve Earle in his narratives and instrumental writing, and a heap of Gram Parsons in the fullness of his overall sound and structure, Ryan Adams steps well above Whiskeytown with Heartbreaker, his solo debut.
Adams signals occupancy of the post-alt-country vanguard--if there is such a thing.
www.amazon.com /Heartbreaker-Ryan-Adams/dp/B00004XSKU   (1061 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Obituaries -- Engineer, inventor Lloyd M. Adams, 80
Adams was instrumental in developing Vista Vision, a wide-screen, deep-focus system that Paramount Studios introduced in the movie "White Christmas" in 1954.
Adams, a New York native, served as an Army cryptographer in World War II and was stationed in New Guinea and the Philippines.
Adams is survived by his wife, Donna; daughter, Lycia Adams of Loveland, Colo.; son, Mark of Los Angeles; and sisters, Frances Mannix of Lake San Marcos, Marion Flint of San Diego and Dorothy Wildforester, of Middletown, N.Y. Services were held June 29 at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/obituaries/20020709-9999_1m9adams.html   (404 words)

  
 About the Charles Ives Society
The Charles Ives Society was activated in 1973.
The aim of the Society has been to further and support the preparation along scholarly critical lines of performing editions, both new and revised, of the works of Ives.
Charles E. Ives." Private individuals have also contributed to the work of the Society, and in 1983 it received a substantial bequest according to the wills of Rhoda and Vladimir Lakond; Mr.
www.charlesives.org /05about.htm   (210 words)

  
 Charles Dunn Company - Your Real Estate is Our Business...Since 1921.
Adams’ primary responsibilities included all the administrative and operations aspects of the office in support of the property management and brokerage team.
Prior to joining Charles Dunn, she was a facilities manager for HR Logic, where she was responsible for six of the firm’s corporate western region offices.
According to Bob Hitchcock, regional vice president of Charles Dunn’s San Diego office, the owner’s goals are to enhance the value of the property through selected capital improvements and strategic leasing of the remaining available space.
www.charlesdunn.com /news2004.htm   (5931 words)

  
 Jones Burials
Charles Jones, 70 years old at Stratton, Nebr. The cause of her death was apoplexy.
The body of Charles B. Jones, an old resident of Jasper county in the neighborhood of Metz, was brought here for burial Wednesday night.
Charles B. Jones was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, June 15, 1840, and quietly passed from this life June 27, 1920, at his home in Stratton, Nebraska, at the age of eighty years and twelve days.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ia/county/jasper1/metz/cemetery/jones   (1471 words)

  
 Free Essays on Ansel Adams
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Ansel Easton Adams was the only child of New England parents, Charles Hitchcock and Olive Adams.
Adams' father was a businessman, whose company included an insurance agency and chemical plant.
His photographs are known and Ansel Easton Adams will always be known as one of the finest technicians in the history of photography.
www.123student.com /5002.htm   (999 words)

  
 USS Charles F. Adams - Former Crewmen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Comments: Charles F Adams was one of the 3 destroyer types that I served in during my 20 years in the Navy.
Comments: It was a great honor to me to serve on the Adams under the command of Cmdr. Roy F. Hoffmann and with the men of that crack crew that set new 6th fleet records for anti-aircraft fire and shore bombardment in the fall of 1967.
The Adams was a hull and superstructure when I first saw her, no paint and not much interior finished.
www.bozair.com /adamsmen/crewmen.html   (12199 words)

  
 Charles Hitchcock Adams - Wikipedia
Charles Hitchcock Adams (1868 1951) fu un astronomo amatoriale statunitense.
Charles fu sposato con Olive Bray, da cui ebbe Ansel Adams, un celebre fotografo.
Il cratere Adams sulla Luna porta il suo nome.
it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Hitchcock_Adams   (211 words)

  
 Ansel Adams
The Emmy-nominated PBS documentary about Adams' life and work first aired on April 21, 2002.
Adams, Ansel (Feb. 20 1902 Apr. 22 1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray.
This collection was compiled as a royalty-free resource of Ansel Adams' early photographs, and will be especially useful to web designers, desktop publishers and graphic artists.
www.shambles.net /pages/learning/Photo/anseladams   (212 words)

  
 DBHS Reunion News
Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902.
Despite spending the rest of his life trying, Charles Adams was unable to regain the former wealth that timber industry provided.
By 1934 Adams had been elected to the club's board of directors and was well established as both the artist of the Sierra Nevada and the defender of Yosemite.
www.personal.psu.edu /users/j/f/jfm227/news.htm   (2376 words)

  
 Julie Adams at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Universal cast Adams in mostly westerns early on, but in 1954 the studio starred her in its 3-D feature Creature from the Black Lagoon, the film for which Adams is best known.
In the 1970s, Adams began taking on more roles, mostly on television; in 1970, she accepted a lead role on the series The Bold Ones, but the show was canceled in 1971.
Adams and husband Ray Danton worked together a number of times in film and on television.
www.briansdriveintheater.com /julieadams.html   (2178 words)

  
 EI > Interviews > Kathryn Adams and Peggy Stewart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kathryn Adams and Peggy Stewart were two others who I was unable to ask more than a few questions of.
Part of this is my fault, in that I had not done the research necessary to ask them more than a few questions.
Katherine Adams: I haven't given my career a second thought in 20 years.
www.einsiders.com /features/interviews/adams_stewart.php   (903 words)

  
 Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Adams and Jewett, "Plan for the Collection of books, pamphlets, and other documents," 1851
Edward "Doc" Hitchcock (Class of 1849), father of the modern archives
Index and chronology of pamphlets prepared by "Doc" Hitchcock for the Memorabilia Collection
www.amherst.edu /library/archives/exhibitions/archives150/toc.html   (205 words)

  
 Silver Investor
Charles P. Coleman of The Pilgrims (born 1865) who was associated with the Lehigh Valley Railroad (Vanderbilt and Rockefeller ownership) was a director of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce from its founding in 1922.
Charles F. Adams was also brother in law of Pilgrim Society member Henry Sturgis Morgan of Morgan Stanley and Company, grandson of J.P. Morgan.
Charles G. Dawes of The Pilgrims wrote “The Banking System of the United States” (1892)---naturally, since that Society is so deeply in control of the system.
www.silver-investor.com /charlessavoie/cs_jan05_worldmoneypower3.htm   (15237 words)

  
 Charles Fraser ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Charles Hobson, Illustration for the second story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson (San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996
Charles Hobson, Illustration for the first story in in the book Shipwreck Stories by Charles Hobson (San Francisco: Pacific Editions, 1996), 1996
Antoine-Louis Barye - Charles VII the Victorious on Horseback c.
www.wwar.com /masters/f/fraser-charles.html   (1854 words)

  
 Charles Strouse - Collaborators
Written with Charles Strouse (music) and Michael Stewart (book), BIRDIE has gone on to become the most-performed musical for school and amateur theatre groups.
Adams and Strouse went on to collaborate on six other Broadway shows, including GOLDEN BOY, starring Sammy Davis, and APPLAUSE, starring Lauren Bacall, which earned Adams his second Tony.
Adams' lyrics for "Those Were the Days," the theme song of TV's ALL IN THE FAMILY, have been heard more often than any other television theme.
www.charlesstrouse.com /collaborator.html   (3161 words)

  
 Leavenworth County, Kansas OBITUARIES
Lena Adams, 3010 Iowa; two sons, Robert S. Schonherr, Alexandria, Va., and Leggo R. Schonherr, 1231 Ottawa; a brother, Emil F. Schonherr, Riverfront and Cherokee; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Charles W. Zule, 82, Easton, lifetime resident of Leavenworth County, died this morning at Topeka following an illness of several years.
Sparrow was born in Wisconsin on Nov. 11, 1887, a son of Charles A. and Nellie Hayes Sparrow.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/leavenwo/Lvobits/query024.html   (1896 words)

  
 Walter Sydney Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Sydney Adams (December 20, 1876 – May 11, 1956) was an American astronomer.
He was born in Antioch, Syria to missionary parents, and was brought to the U.S. in 1885.
The Adams crater on the Moon is jointly named after him, John Couch Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Sydney_Adams   (267 words)

  
 maud adams | biography (born 1945)
Bond girl Maud Adams was born Maud Wikstrom in Sweden in 1945.
After working as a fashion model and marrying her first husband in 1966, she started her acting career in Hollywood.
She was the host and director of Kafé Luleå and a regular cast member on Radioskugga and Vita Lögner.
www.leninimports.com /maud_adams.html   (295 words)

  
 Charles Laughton page in Classic Horror Players Directory
With Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Zasu Pitts, Roland Young and Leila Hyams.
As brilliant but impoverished composer "Charles Smith," experiencing the worst night of his life (and the greatest) because of a tailcoat in the episodic comedy-drama Tales of Manhattan (1942), directed by Julien Duvivier.
Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Louis Jourdan, Ann Todd, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore, Leo G. Carroll, Lester Matthews, Edgar Norton, Elspeth Dudgeon and Alfred Hitchcock (carrying a cello case).
myweb.wvnet.edu /~u0e53/charleslaughton.html   (1814 words)

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