Mary Jobe Akeley, explorer, museum adviser

Carol W. Kimball

Akeley, Mary Jobe
Explorer, a local woman
Africa

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Scrapbook

8: Communication Artifact

Documentary Artifact

The Day

New London, CT

09/28/1989

Carol W. Kimball

Mary Jobe Akeley, once nationally known for her explorations in Canada and Africa and her role as adviser to the Akeley African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, her successful camp for girls, Camp Mystic, on River Road (1914 to 1930) and, in 1925, the unexplored peak in the northern Rockies named Mt. Jobe. She also wrote seven books and held photograph rich travel lectures only to die at a Mystic nursing home July 19, 1966, all but forgotten. However, more than 20 years after her death, Canadian park warden Cyndi Smith published a book entitled "Off the Beaten Track: Women Adventurers and Mountaineers in Western Canada" with a chapter devoted to Mary L. Jobe and in the summer of 1989, Patricia Gilmartin from the University of South Carolina, wrote an article commemorating the 75th anniversary of Jobe's ascent of Mt. Sir Alexander while Dawn-Starr Crowther, graduate student at Arizona State Univ., published a monography of Mary Jobe.

Akeley, Mary L. Jobe
Jobe, Mary L.
Akeley, Carl
Ranger, Henry W.
Davis, Charles
Gilmartin, Patricia
Crowther, Dawn-Starr

explorer
museum adviser
author
Camp Mystic
Canada
Africa
Mystic
River Road
photographs
Hunter College
Noank
Starr Street
Canadian Rockies
Mystic River Historical Society
Mt. Sir Alexander
Mt. Jobe
woman explorer