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Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (October 2, 1905 – December 11, 2002), was an American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist. She used her middle name, Marvin, both professionally and personally to distinguish herself from her cousin Mary Breckinridge (founder of the Frontier Nursing Service ) and to avoid the ...
- John C. Breckinridge & Isabella Goodrich
- Jefferson Patterson
- December 11, 2002 (aged 97), Washington, DC
When World War II broke out in 1939, freelance photojournalist Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (b. 1905) took the first pictures of a London air-raid shelter. She was, however, new to radio when friend Edward R. Murrow hired her as the first female staff broadcaster in Europe for CBS.
11 dic 2002 · by Charles Tepperman. Marvin Breckinridge was an amateur filmmaker, best known for her 1930 silent film The Forgotten Frontier. This film presents the activities of the Frontier Nursing Service, a group (primarily women) that provided medical services in remote and rural areas of Kentucky.
Describing the Nazi newspaper Voelkische Beobachter, she observed, “The motto of this important official paper is Freedom and Bread. There is still bread.”. During her assignment in Berlin, Marvin met Jefferson Patterson, first secretary of the United States embassy in Berlin, whom she married on June 20, 1940.
Marvin Breckinridge Patterson. American, 1905 - 2002. Patterson, Mary Marvin Breckinridge; Patterson, Jefferson Mrs.; Breckinridge, Mary Marvin
Photojournalist Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson was in Switzerland in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland during World War II. She was one of only four American photographers in England in the early months of the war and captured photos of the evacuation of English children from the cities to the countryside.
2 ott 2014 · Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, one of the first female CBS broadcast journalists, was born on October 2, 1905. At the beginning of World War II she served as part of Edward R. Murrow’s...
