The Fine Art of Exploration
Else Bostelmann was the artist who created the iconic imagery depicting William Beebe’s record-breaking bathysphere dives off Bermuda in the 1930s. Although she has been largely relegated to history’s footnotes, the discovery of a cache of her works and papers provides some new insights into her lif...
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| description | Else Bostelmann was the artist who created the iconic imagery depicting William Beebe’s record-breaking bathysphere dives off Bermuda in the 1930s. Although she has been largely relegated to history’s footnotes, the discovery of a cache of her works and papers provides some new insights into her life and the part she played in the history of deep-sea exploration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-016f813a090542e188d1954383e54e6c2022-12-22T01:22:06ZengThe Oceanography SocietyOceanography1042-82752016-12-0129417017710.5670/oceanog.2016.86The Fine Art of ExplorationEdith Widder0Ocean Research & Conservation AssociationElse Bostelmann was the artist who created the iconic imagery depicting William Beebe’s record-breaking bathysphere dives off Bermuda in the 1930s. Although she has been largely relegated to history’s footnotes, the discovery of a cache of her works and papers provides some new insights into her life and the part she played in the history of deep-sea exploration.https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/29-4_widder.pdfElse BostelmannWilliam Beebescientific illustrationscience historyocean history |
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