• Source: Crete Hutchinson

      • Crete Hutchinson (née, Sprague; 1884–1970) was an American writer. She served as Director of Publicity with the American Library Association's Library War Service during World War I. In January 1936, she became the first Director of the New York Historical Records Survey. During World War II, Hutchinson was the assistant director, division of films, Committee on Public Information, and director, of its division of pictures.


      Biography


      Crete Pauline Sprague was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 31, 1884. Her parents were Norman Clark and Sarah (Samms) Sprague.
      She was educated at Westtown Boarding School, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Berkeley. She earned a B.A. degree.
      With her husband, Raymond Wilson Hutchinson, a mining engineer, she lived in the mountains of El Salvador, 45 miles (72 km) from the Pacific Coast by muleback. The couple had one daughter, Ruth.
      She served as Director of Publicity with the American Library Association's Library War Service during World War I. During the inter-war period, she managed the Bachrach Studios.
      During World War II, Hutchinson was the assistant director, division of films, Committee on Public Information, and director, of its division of pictures.
      She wrote travel stories, as well as Your Job Back Home and In Cloudland.
      She was a member of the Washington Advertising Club, National League of American Pen Women (Auditor), Women's National Press Club, and Westtown Old Scholars' Association.
      In religion, she was a Christian Scientist.
      Hutchinson was a resident of Washington, D.C. intermittently since 1893.


      Selected works




      = Books

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      Your Job Back Home
      In Cloudland, 1920


      = Articles

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      "The Leviathan's Machine Shop", American Machinist (New York, April 16, 1925), vol. 62, no. 16, pp. 614-15 (text)
      "Books for the Navy", Sea Power: Warships, Merchant Marine, Naval Bases (July 1919), Volumes 7-8, no. 1 pp. 30-32 (text)
      "North Carolina's Contribution to the Winning of the War", American Forestry (November 1918), vol. 24, no. 299, pp. 675-78 (text)


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