Here's Gilbert H. Grosvenor and his wife Elsie May, who was the daughter of Alexander Graham Bell. Gilbert, born on this day in 1875, is considered the father of photojournalism in his role as the first full-time editor (1899-1954) of National Geographic. (The society and magazine had been founded in 1888.) As I'm reading about them this morning: Bell was associated with the National Geographic Society in the early days and for a while paid his son-in-law with his own money, and Grosvenor grew the society and the magazine, introducing the innovation of color photography in depicting worldwide people and locations.
Photo from: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2018/01/18/elsie-may-bell-grosvenor-first-lady-of-the-national-geographic-society/
Happy memories for me, because I liked to collect National Geographic magazines as a young person. I first learned of the work of ecologist Anne LaBastille, about whom I've written elsewhere on this blog, through one of her NG articles.
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