Yvette borup andrews biography of albert einstein

American explorer and scientific illustrator (–)

Yvette Borup Andrews
Yvette Borup Andrews, feeding a Tibetan blue bear cub in
Born	Yvette Huen Borup ()February 28, Paris, France
Died	April 12, () (aged&#;68) Burgos, Spain
Nationality	American
Occupation	photographer
Years&#;active	s–s
Known&#;for	photographing Central Asia for the American Museum of Natural History

Yvette Borup Andrews (February 28, – April 12, ) was an American photographer associated with the American Museum of Natural History.

With the museum's director, Roy Chapman Andrews, she traveled to Central Asia twice during for the museum's First and Second Asiatic Zoological Expeditions.

Yvette borup andrews biography of albert einstein Scientific illustrators. Article Talk. To develop the motion picture negatives, Yvette utilised a special collapsible darkroom made of red cloth that could be attached to the inside of any tent, designed by the famed conservator Carl Akeley when he worked at the American Museum of Natural History. A Borup Andrews who is not just the wife of an explorer, but an explorer.

Early life

Yvette Huen Borup was born in Paris to American parents, Henry Dana Borup (–) and Mary Watson Brandreth Borup (–). Her father was an American military attaché in Paris and Berlin before World War I. Her maternal grandfather, George A. Brandreth, and her great-grandfather, Congressman Aaron Ward, were both New York politicians.

Her great-great-grandfather, Elkanah Watson, was a notable New York businessman. Her older brother, George Brandreth Borup (–), was assistant to Robert Peary on the North Pole Expedition, and wrote a book about his experiences in the Arctic. Yvette Borup was educated in France, Germany, Italy, and New York.^[1] One of her school friends at the Kaiserin Auguste Institute was Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.^[2][3]

Career

Yvette Borup Andrews was an ethnographic photographer and filmmaker^[4] for the American Museum of Natural History.

She was the photographer assigned to the museum's First Asiatic Zoological Expedition (–), to China, Tibet, and Burma, and the Second Asiatic Zoological Expedition (), to Mongolia and North China, both expeditions led by her husband.

Yvette borup andrews biography of albert einstein for kids Become a member Subscribe Get app Sign in Take Scroll With You Download the app to read our award-winning journalism on the go and stay up-to-date with our notifications. In addition to the still. She was not only proficient in creating black-and-white prints, she was also adept at the then-relatively new color techniques like using Paget color plates; and she was also able to create motion pictures. Andrews was the main author, though Borup Andrews contributed six chapters and all of the photographs, as well as her daily journals, which Andrews relied on heavily for his writing 5 Across Mongolian Plains told of the Second Asiatic Zoological Expedition, which explored the Gobi Desert from

She developed her still images and films in a portable "rubber darkroom" in the field. In the s she was again in the field with Andrews, as photographer on the museum's Central Asiatic Expeditions. On that trip, she photographed the last Maidari Festival in Ulaanbaatar, creating a valuable historical document of the custom.^[1]

Her photographs were published in Camps and Trails in China (), a book she co-authored with her husband.^[5] More photographs by Andrews appeared in Across Mongolian Plains &#;().^[6] Soon after their divorce, Roy Chapman Andrews told an audience that "Physically and intellectually, women may be the equals of men for the work of exploration, but temperamentally they are not.

They do not stand up under the little daily annoyances that loom large to them in the somewhat trying work involved on an expedition. The trivialities which men can ignore completely disturb them and prevent them from settling down to hard and conscientious work." The Society of Woman Geographers objected to his observations.^[7]

In , she was active with the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, volunteering as a "Minute Woman" at a phone bank to build support for the United States' entry into World War II.^[8]

Personal life

Yvette Borup married naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews (–) in ; he was an acquaintance of her late brother.^[9] She had two sons.

Biography of albert einstein pdf In short, her photographs introduced European and American audiences to Central Asia, offering readers a chance to become acquainted with the lives, cultures, economies, and politics of peoples living very different lives on the other side of the world. Her compelling series of images from the First Asiatic Zoological Expedition was published in in the extremely popular Camps and Trails in China. At the beginning of the 20th century, Central Asia piqued serious scientific curiosity across a plethora of disciplines from biology to paleoanthropology. Roy relied heavily on.

The father of George Borup Andrews (–) was Roy Chapman Andrews but, although Yvette was married to Roy Chapman Andrews at the time of the birth of her second son, Roy Kevin Andrews (–), the first man to visit her to see the newborn son was not Roy Chapman Andrews, but Harold St Clair (Chips) Smallwood. On the eve of Kevin’s marriage nearly 30 years later, Yvette announced to Kevin that Smallwood, and not Roy Chapman Andrews was his father.

Yvette and Roy Chapman Andrews were divorced in ^[10][11] She died in a traffic accident, near Bahabón de Esgueva, in the province of Burgos, Spain, aged 68 years.^[12]

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