Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
American photojournalist and magazine editor · United States · Artists · Lived 1875 to 1966 · aged 90
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Something wrong?Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was an American magazine editor who was the first full-time editor of the National Geographic magazine from 1899 to 1954, and is credited with having consolidated the nascent magazine.
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Hovey at work at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C. (1914)
Grosvenor traveled in California with Stephen Mather and helped write the act that created the National Parks.
'Ape'ape trees on Maui, with man for scale. Photograph by Grosvenor, 1924
Elsie and Gilbert holding their son, Melville, Library of Congress.
Gilbert Grosvenor holds his young son, Melville Bell Grosvenor, 1902. Library of Congress.
Memorial for Gilbert and Elsie Grosvenor in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.Awards
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Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was an American magazine editor who was the first full-time editor of the National Geographic magazine from 1899 to 1954, and is credited with having consolidated the nascent magazine. As President of the National Geographic Society from 1920 to 1954, he assisted its rise to one of the world's largest and best known science and learning organizations, aided by the chronicling in its magazine of ambitious natural and cultural explorations around the globe.
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