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Only twice in the time he has been established in this city has he taken pictures outside its environs. Once he went to Czechoslovakia to photograph president Jan Masaryk, then to Denmark to do King Christian
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at White Oak Shade on April 18, 1942, and died at a New York hospital four days later. In accordance with his wishes, all photographic
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organization, he founded the Norwalk Boy Scouts and maintained a camp for the scouts on his White Oak Shade estate in
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in 1883, where he worked as a photographer's apprentice prior to opening his own studio in
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The Pirie MacDonald Portrait Photograph Collection at the New York Historical Society
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Professional Photographers' Society of New York - President 1905 and 1907
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MacDonald married Emilie Van Dusen in 1890. Heavily involved in the
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In 1980 Pirie MacDonald was posthumously inducted into the
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Photographer's Association of America - Lifetime Member
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December 1941. 421:International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum 872: 770:"International Photography Hall of Fame profile" 653:. 28 January 1942. pp. 27 Section: Sports 901:Officiers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques 42:Portrait of Pirie MacDonald published in 1909 677:"Roosevelt Most Difficult Man To Photograph" 733:"Pirie MacDonald Cabin Swept by 1,500 Fire" 645:"Pirie Mdonald, at 75, works in his studio" 36: 906:Fellows of the Royal Photographic Society 545: 543: 764: 762: 760: 758: 756: 873: 830:International Photography Hall of Fame 774:International Photography Hall of Fame 614: 612: 610: 608: 606: 540: 108:Early and mid-20th century portraiture 145: 753: 501:from the original on 26 January 2021 495:The Royal Photographic Society (RSP) 150:Born in Chicago, MacDonald moved to 603: 551:"Ace Photographer Gives Big Secret" 13: 911:Royal Photographic Society members 427: 413:of Great Britain - Honorary Fellow 142:, religious leaders, and artists. 14: 927: 847: 896:Photographers from New York City 853: 579:"Ian Pirie MacDonald - obituary" 404:Officer of the French Academy - 369: 351: 333: 315: 297: 279: 261: 243: 227: 193: 118: 891:American portrait photographers 818: 792: 587:. 23 April 1942. 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portrait photographer
heads of state
Hudson, New York
Albany
Spencer Trask
Woodrow Wilson
William Ralph Inge
Seán O'Casey
Antoine Lumiére
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Christian X of Denmark
Theodore Roosevelt
Boy Scouts of America
Norwalk, Connecticut
cerebral hemorrhage
negatives
Theodore Roosevelt US President
William Butler Yeats Poet
William Butler Yeats
Albert Payson Terhune Writer
Albert Payson Terhune
Bruce Bairnsfather Cartoonist
Bruce Bairnsfather
Bliss Carman Poet

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