Pleason, Herbert W. 1855-1937. HERBERT WENDELL GLEASON 1855-1937 Unteroon Author. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH HERBERT WENDELL GLEASON: Born Malden, Massachusetts June 5. 1855. Son of Herbert Gleason of Plymouth, Massachusetts and Elizabeth Upton of Wakefield, Massachusetts. EDUCATION: Public schools of Malden, Massachusetts. Graduated from Williams College in 1877. Union Seminary 1878-79; Resident Licentiate Andover Seminary 1882 ; H.M. Pelican Rapids, Minnesota 1883-85, Ordained March 7, 1887: Pastor Como Avenue Church Minneapolis 1885-88; Editor Northwestern Congregationalist (Later 'The Kingdom' ) 1888-99; Literary work and lecturer from 1899. residence Boston. MARRIED: He married his childhood sweetheart, Lulie W. Rounds of Malden, Massachusetts in 1883. The Gleason's celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary December 15. 1933. They had no children. DIED: Mrs. Gleason died in 1934. Herbert Wendell Gleason died October 4, 1937. PHOTOGRAPHY: In 1899 Gleason began his extensive travelling with his camera. The envelope that records his first photograph is inscribed "INTERIOR OF PARLOR AND HALL, 1815 COLUMBUS AVENUE, MINNEAPOLIS. #1, February 2, 1899. "Five days later Gleason was photographing much of the interior of "MR. GILEERT'S" home in Duluth, Minnesota. And on February 8, 1899 Gleason was at Knife Run, Minnesota where he photographed "LOGGING TRAIN ON TRESTLE, ALGER CAMP NO. 1". By the fall of 1899 Gleason was in the east shooting pictures of Walden Pond and Thoreau Country. He began his prolific camera work in 1899 at the age of 44, continuing until less than a month from the time he died in 1937 at the age of 82. continued HERBERT WENDELL GLEASON PAGE 2 In 1916 Gleason in reviewing his camera travels since 1900 wrote, "Lest any should assume that the fondness for New England scenery here avowed is due to a lack of acquaint- ance with other regions more famous for their grandeur, it may be stated that during this same period the writer made two trips to Alaska, six to California and the Pacific Coast, three to the Grand Canon of Arizona, seven to the Canadian Rockies, two to Yellowstone Park, and three tn the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Yet, after every one of these trips, it was a genuine delight to return to the simple beauty of New England." In November, 1915 Gleason presented a series of 8 illustra- ted lectures on NATIONAL PARKS OF AMERICA at Tremont Temple, Boston. The announcement for these lectures stated, "Mr. Gleason has personally visited the National Parks both of the United States and Canada-in many cases repeatedly, -and has taken what is said to be the largest and finest collection of photographs in existence of the wonderful scenery of these Parks. In addition to the scenic views many pictures of wild flowers, birds and animals will be included. All the lantern slides have been beautifully colored from Nature by Mrs. Herbert W. Gleason and Mrs. Helen E. Stevenson." In April 1908 Mr. Gleason presented his illustrated lecture GLORIES OF THE SIERRAS to members of the Appalachian Mountain Club in Boston. The talk was reviewed most favorably in the Boston papers: "Splendid as have been the photographic projections of picturesque views shown before the members of the Appalachian Mountain Club, the pictures of last evening in Huntington Hall surpassed them all. They were from the camera of Herbert W. Gleason, a club member It was a record audience of nearly a thousand persons, club members and their guests, to whom Mr. Gleason spoke, and the hearty applause of the company was almost constant." continued HERBERT WENDELL GLEASON PAGE 3 Gleason was an excellent naturalist and horticulturalist. He photographed many of the formal gardens and estates of the north and south shores of Boston, Newport, Connecticut and Long Island, New York. He photographed horticultural shows and garden club exhibits. One of Gleason's illustrated lectures was PERSONAL MEMORIES OF LUTHER BURBANK AND HIS MAGIC GARDENS. Included were superb photography of Luther Burbank and his horticultural experiments during the years of 1909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1919 and 1922. Gleason's photography illustrated articles for the National Geographic magazine and many books, including Houghton Mifflin's 20 volume edition of Thoreau's works in 1906, 'Through The Year With Thoreau', 1917. and John Muir's 'Travels In Alaska', 1915. Meticulously Gleason would record the name and the location and the date when he photographed the subject on the individual envelope in which the negative was filed. Often he would write the Latin name for a picture of a flower he had photographed on the envelope. Roland W. Robbins, Lincoln, Massachusetts has owned nearly 6000 of Gleason's original negatives for 30 years. Only recently did he turn to studying and cataloging this rare photographic treasure of the American past. Even at this early stage of his study of Gleason's camera artistry he comments: "Herbert W. Gleason's superb photography proves in a thousand different ways that A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS." LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK An Illustrated Lecture by HERBERT W. GLEASON Few localities in New England have been so long and so widely known for their scenic charim as Mt. Desert Island, off the coast of Maine. For years it has been the choice summer resort of many people who have prized its delightful climate and its superb combination of mountain and ocean scenery. Within its area of about one hundred square miles it includes a mountain system whose summits are the highest anywhere along the Atlantic coast, their lower slopes and intervening valleys being clothed with a luxuriant forest, while here and there are lovely lakes and tarns, with songful streams and a wealth of wild flowers. The shores of the island are wonderfully picturesque and varied, with broad visions of old ocean's majesty and beauty. It is unquestionably New England's most radiant ocean-girt gem. Mt. Desert has also a noteworthy historical background, dating from its discovery by Champlain in 1604 and the first French settlement in 1613, while with respect to the prehistoric story it presents a record of events of geologic time which is of surpassing scientific interest. But the most important event in recent days was the creation by act of Congress in 1919 of the Lafayette National P'ark. This, which is the only National Park east of the Mississippi River, comprises some 10,000 acr2s of the most scenically beautiful portion of the island, including all the highest summits and a considerable extent of shore line. It abounds in all those natural features which go to make up New England's peculiar charm, while numerous well-constructed trails make all portions of the Park readily accessible. Its popularity is evidenced by the fact that in the summer of 1922 the Park records show upwards of 73,000 visitors. Besides various visits on previous occasions, in the summer of 1922 Mr. and Mrs. Gleason spent three months at Mt. Desert, making many trips awheel, afoot and afloat; and out of a large nurnber of photographs taken, a series has been selected for this lecture-the slides being colored by Mrs. Gleason,-which vividly reproduces the rare beauty of the Island and the manifold attractions of the National Park. No other lecture on Mr. Gleason's list has been accorded 80 enthusiastic a welcome by New England audiences. For terms, dates, etc., address HERBERT W. GLEASON, 1259 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. Audia. Cleason fole / DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 3/28/19 360 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Sieur de Monts NATIONAL MONUMENT OFFICE OF THE CUSTODIAN Bar Harbor, Maine. December 2 1918 . My dear Mr. Albright: CBD modilia, as I am translating your Italian pamphlets and will re- turn them to you with their translation when I have them done. from slater Later I should like to get out a brief account of our own work here, with a few attractive illustrations, and send it over in fair quantity for distribution among the people taking active part in the movement there. I am using my own house as office now, as I held uo a new system of winter heating I had planned while there seemed uncertainty with regard to the lease we had arranged of the Wild Gardens of Acadia Building, but after our talk about it waking the other day in Washington, which save me assurance in regard to it, I telegraphed down to take up the work again and it should be completed shortly. I am putting in a hot-water system which will make it comfortable henceforth at any season. It has a summy exposure, too, and one sheltered from the cold winds. TANOLLAN 3H1 IV I am writing Mr. Mather also a letter by this mail, with regard to Mr. Gleason's contract, which I commend to your attention should Mr. Mather not yet have returned to Washing- ton. Mr. Gleason planned to write him himself upon the mt- ter in the same sense, and probably has already done so. He found the November light in this northern latitude too faint - even when the days are clear - for doing his best work and only took a few pictures upon this trip that satisfied him, although making a thorough study with me, so for as the time enabled, of the opportunities the Park presents for future work. He is ambitious to make this a record piece of work, moreover, and ex- pend his best skill upon it. It will be advisable accordingly to so modify the contract as to enable him to be paid pro rata for the pictures as he gets them and they are approved by Br. Mather. He has a few already, and will come down again to get others in the winter time, which I am anxious to secure, but he will not finish his collection until spring has come. Sincerely yours, Mr. Horace M. Albright, Assistant Director, National Park Service, Washington, D. C. HERBERT W. GLEASON ILLUSTRATED URES ON TRAVEL AND EEATURE-STUDY Alaska Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Mt. Monadnock The Wonderland of Southern Utah Our National Parks Grand Canyon of the Colorado The Yellowstone Wonderland . Our Romantic Southwest Afield with Henry David Thoreau . The John Muir Trail Old Spanish Missions of California . The Canadian Alps Deserts and Gardens of Southern California Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVE., BOSTON 34, MASS. January 11, 1923. My dear Mr. Burbank: At the request of the editor of the Boston Trans- cript I wrote a story the other day about Lafayette Park which he printed in last Saturday's issue. On opening the paper I was delighted to find another article about you, which delighted Mrs. Gleason and me very much. To make sure that the paper comes to your attention, I am sending herewith a copy of that portion of the paper containing the two articles. That is a most admirable scheme for a memorial of your work which is planned by your fellow-citizens of Santa Rosa, and I shall watch its development and final accomplishment with the greatest interest. How I wish I could be on hand at the dedication of the new park in March! It will surely be a notable occasion. Judging from the photographs in the Transcript (which are very poorly reproduced in both articles) I think that you and Mrs. Burbank must be in excellent health. I like especially that view in which you appear with Mr. Paderewski, and I am tempted to inquire where I may get a copy of the photograph from which I can make a lantern slide for use in my Burbank lecture. I sincerely hope that your good health will continue, and that your Golden Jubilee will bring with it the assurance of many years yet to come of honor and happiness. Mrs. Gleason and I did not get to California the past summer. I 1922 was called to undertake some special work for the government down on Mt. Desert Island, and we stayed there for three months, not returning home until November. We had a wonderfully fine time. Whether or not we shall go West again next year I cannot now tell. Please accept our heartiest congratulations and best wishes both for yourself and "Betty." Most cordially yours, stogbest If Eleason Mr. Luther Burbank, Santa Rosa, California. opy 182 HERBERT W. GLEASON University of Minnesota Archives ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON TRAVEL AND NATURE-STUDY Thomas S. Roberts Alaska Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Mt. Monadnock The Wonderland of Southern Utah Natural History Correspondence Our National Parks Grand Canyon of the Colorado The Yellowstone Wonderland - Our Romantic Southwest Afield with Henry David Thoreau - The John Muir Trail Old Spanish Missions of California The Canadian Alps Deserts and Gardens of Southern California Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVE., BOSTON 34, MASS. March 5, 1923. My dear Dr. Roberts: You have been so incautious as to speak in complimentary terms of my story-telling, and I therefore inflict upon you another screed which appeared in the Boston Transcript the other day. I had the page re- printed separately on better paper, hoping to bring the half-tones out in better shape; but newspaper cuts are pretty bum, as a rule, and I cannot get much satisfaction from them. Perhaps the story will interest you. I did not attend a single one of the Audubon Society's lectures this season, as my own engagements were so pressing. I felt the disappoint- ment less, however, knowing that there were none of your pictures to be shown. I was much interested in looking over the schedule of lectures at the University Museum. I know a chap here in Boston who I think could give a series under your auspices which I confidently believe you would find worth while and which would fit in very nicely with your general scheme. I don't know how much of a fund you have at your disposal, but if he could get a series of dates in the early part of May I am sure he would be willing to come for little more than his actual traveling expenses. He is just now very busy, with subjects printed above on this letter-head, but after April 15 he will be more at leisure. We have had a real Minnesota winter this year, though with no very low temperatures. But I have lost the whole winter, greatly to my sorrow. Have been kept on the jump all the while, with lecture engagements, story- writing, and special photographic work, not to mention two attacks of the "flu," - quite mild, fortunately, - so that I have had no first-hand touch with the winter at all. Spring is now in the air, and if I were out in the country I should be listening for bluebirds; but the only birds I hear are starlings and English sparrows - neither worth listening to. The coming of spring always revives my homesickness for Minnesota. I long to get back among the birds and wild flowers, and I can think of no more delightful program for the month of May than to spend the entire month among my old haunts in Minnesota. Our plans for the summer are not yet set- tled. They want me to go to Bar Harbor again, where we spent three months last summer, and there is also a scheme for going to Yellowstone Park again HERBERT W. GLEASON University of Minnesota ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON TRAVEL AND Archives NATURE-STUDY Alaska Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Thomas S. Roberts Mt. Monadnock - The Wonderland of Southern Utah Our National Parks - Grand Canyon of the Colorado Natural History Correspondence The Yellowstone Wonderland - Our Romantic Southwest Afield with Henry David Thoreau - The John Muir Trail Old Spanish Missions of California - The Canadian Alps Deserts and Gardens of Southern California - Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVE., BOSTON 34, MASS. with the Teton Mountains as special objective, but that is as yet quite un- certain. I hope you will be more fortunate this year and get away for a long outing. You are always so successful with your bird exploits, and the results are SO interesting to other people, you really ought to devote more time to this "avocation" and leave the medical practice for others to take care of. < But I must return to my preparations for a lecture on Mt. Desert which has been booked for the Appalachian Club and also the Boston City Club, both of which organizations always give me large audiences.> I wish you could see Mrs. Gleason's colored slides, - they are very fine. Remember us most cordially to Mrs. Roberts, and if at any time you have an errend this way be sure and let us see you. Faithfully yours, Harbert If. Eleason Dr. Thos. S. Roberts, Minneapolis. The National Park Service of the Department of the Interior cordially inbites you to an illustrated lecture by Mr. Terbert III. Gleason the fwell-known - lecturer of Boston, Hassachusetts on Tafagette National Park, Maine, at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, 1924 in the Auditorium of the Interior Department 18th and F Streets u- Manesota. DorrTmila of 11/15/07 Thomas >. Koberis HERBERT W. GLEASON latural History Correspondence ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON TRAVEL AND NATURE-STUDY Scenic Alaska The Old Spanish Missions of California Mt. Monadnock Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Our National Parks Volcanic Peaks of the Pacific Coast The Maine Woods Alpine Flowers. of the Rocky Mountains Our Romantic Southwest - Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees Lafayette National Park Wild Flowers. East and West Grand Canyon of the Colorado The Yellowstone Wonderland Island Gardens of Mt. Desert - Mushrooms and Other Fungi The Wonderland of Southern Utah - Over the John Muir Trail Afield with Henry David Thoreau The Spell of the Desert Ancient Cliff Dwellings of the Far West - The Canadian Alps Gardens and Deserts of Southern California Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON 34, MASSACHUSETTS April 18, 1924. Curator, My dear Dr. Roberts: (1915- Here is another story which I had in the Boston Trans- itusewing script this week. The pictures are punk (there were a number of others Natural History which got crowded out, perhaps just as well), but you may be interested in the story. By the way, if you should want any of these gull photos for your educational work, or any lantern slides of the same, I think I can secure them for you at nominal cost. The negatives are in my control, but I took them for Mr. Geo. B. Dorr, superintendent of the Lafayette National Park, and he is glad to have them used Lor educational purposes. We have spent the past two summers at Bar Harbor, - rather a mild substitute for our trips into the Far West but we have greatly en- joyed them, and plan to go there again this summer. It is a combination of business and pleasure for me (exclusively pleasure for Mrs. G.) which is very agreeable. My work during the summer is chiefly photographic, with occasional lectures, and with a motor-boat and automobile at my dispos- al, the time goes pleasantly. You ought to visit Mt. Desert. I am sending you copy of a pamphlet recently issued at Washington which will tell you more about it. The half-tones in this are very good, as I think you will observe. By the way, can you tell me where I can get a good "blind" for bird work? I remember Mr. Figgins used to make a good contrivance, but I think he has discontinued the business. Tell me about yourself and what you are doing. I would like immensely to spend next month in Minnesota among the birds. but that is hardly feasible this year. Sincerely yours, Dr. Thos. S. Roberts, Minneapolis, Minn. 10/10/16 Envelo Photogra Box pe Item Title Date Creator pher # 66 01 0001 Ben Emerys Cove N/A Herbert W. Gleason 01 66 02 0002 Ben Emery's Cove N/A Herbert W. Gleason 01 Star Point - Salisbury 66 03 0003 Cove - High Tide N/A Herbert W. Gleason 02 Surf on Ocean Drive with Otter Cliffs in 66 04 0004 Distance N/A Herbert W. Gleason 03 66 05 0005 Schooner Head Cliffs N/A Herbert W. Gleason 04 Coast Line from Hunters Beach to Seal 66 06 0006 Harbor N/A Herbert W. Gleason 07 Coast Line from Hunters Beach to Seal 66 07 0007 Harbor N/A Herbert W. Gleason 07 Coast Line from Hunters Beach to Seal 66 08 0008 Harbor N/A Herbert W. Gleason 07 Coast Line from Hunters Beach to Seal 66 09 0009 Harbor N/A Herbert W. Gleason 07 Cove at Schooner 66 10 0010 Head N/A Herbert W. Gleason 08 Anemone Cave, Late Afternoon, Bar 66 11 0011 Harbor, ME. Sept. 12, 1923 Herbert W. Gleason 11 Willow Tree at Seal Cove - FL Olmstead in Distance Rowing to 66 12 0012 Sail Boat Herbert W. Gleason 12 Seal Cove from the 66 13 0013 Bridge N/A Herbert W. Gleason 13 Seal Cove Through Branches of Tree 66 14 0014 Beneath Bridge N/A Herbert W. Gleason 14 A Breaking Wave 66 15 0015 (From Shore) N/A Herbert W. Gleason 18 Incoming Wave 66 16 0016 (Shore View) N/A Herbert W. Gleason 19 Breaking Waves 66 17 0017 (Shore View) N/A Herbert W. 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