Clara Louise Hagins

Clara Louise Hagins (1871 – April 16, 1957) was an American photographer and clubwoman based in Chicago, Illinois.

Clara Louise Hagins, from a 1914 publication.

Early life

Clara Louise Hagins was born in Chicago, the daughter of John L. Hagins and Mary Ann McCormick Hagins. She had a younger sister, Alice Mary Hagins.[1]

Career

Hagins was a secretary and photographer at the William McKenzie Morrison portrait studio in Chicago. She was active in the Women's Federation of the Photographers' Association of America.[2] She served as first vice president in the federation's executive board in 1914 and 1915, working with Maybelle Goodlander and the Gerhard Sisters,[3] and she managed "the Circle", the federation's traveling collection of members' work.[4] In 1921 she was vice-president of the Photographers' Association of America, at their meeting in Buffalo, New York.[5][6] She was also active in the Association of Women's Clubs in Chicago,[1] and in the Dickens Fellowship of Chicago.[7]

Personal life

Hagins moved to Tampa, Florida by the 1940s, and died there in 1957, aged 85 years.[8]

References
  1. "Miss Clara Hagins" The Tampa Tribune (April 17, 1957): 2. via Newspapers.com
  2. Pearl Grace Loehr, "The Relation of the Women's Federation to the Photographic Profession" Wilson's Photographic Magazine (January 1914): 10.
  3. Clara Louise Hagins, "To Women Photographers" Wilson's Photographic Magazine (January 1914): 39.
  4. Clara Louise Hagins, "The Traveling Exhibit of the Women's Federation of Photographers" Wilson's Photographic Magazine (April 1914): 190-191.
  5. "Demonstrate Art of Picture-Taking" Buffalo Times (July 19, 1921): 9. via Newspapers.com
  6. "In Passing By" Abel's Photographic Weekly (July 30, 1921): 789.
  7. "Our Branch's Beginnings" Dickens Fellowship of Chicago.
  8. Death notices, Tampa Tribune (April 18, 1957): 2. via Newspapers.com
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