the john muir exhibit - people - charles keeler

Charles Keeler

1872 - 1937

 

• Poet and ornithologist, and a prolific writer.

• Director of the Natural History Museum at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

• Keeler was a charter Sierra Club member. Keeler met Muir through artist William Keith

• Keeler was Muir's cabin-mate aboard the George W. Elder on the Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899).

• He worked for the preservation of the Berkeley hills

• Recollections of John Muir by Charles Keeler

• "To Joseph LeConte" by Charles Keeler, a poem read at the Wild Flower Show in 1907 at the LeConte Memorial Lodge (now the Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center), attended by John Muir.

• The Simple Home - by Charles Keeler - A short book promoting rustic homes (often referred to as "Arts & Crafts Architecture") and a healthy lifestyle (Off-site link to archive.org)

• Biography from Harriman Expedition Retraced - From pbs.org (Off-site link)
  
  
• Biography from Wikipedia (off-site link)

Portrait of Charles Keeler [Photographer unknown], courtesy of California Faces: Selections from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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