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Crete Hutchinson (née, Sprague; 1884–1970) was an American writer, publicist, and the manager of Bachrach Studios.
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, 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 Publicitywith the American Library Association during World War I. During World War II, Hutchinson was the assistant director, division of films, Committee on Public Information, and director, of its division of pictures.
She was the author of 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), and the Women's National Press Club.
In religion, she was a Christian Scientist.
Hutchinson was a resident of Washington, D.C. intermittently since 1893.
Selected works
- Your Job Back Home
- In Cloudland, 1920
References
- ^ "HUTCHINSON, Crete Pauline (Mrs.)". Who's who in the Nation's Capital. Consolidated Publishing Company. 1926. p. 304. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- "40 'Cleopatra' Aspirants Chosen". Times Herald. 19 May 1923. p. 5. Retrieved 12 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- "Address on Journalism". Evening Star. 17 May 1921. p. 27. Retrieved 12 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "The League of Pen Women". The Washington Herald. 20 November 1919. p. 7. Retrieved 12 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Advertising Club Opens Membership to Women". Times Herald. 7 February 1920. p. 9. Retrieved 12 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- J. Berg Esenwein, ed. (October 1922). "The Bulletin Board". The Writer's Monthly. XX (4): 350. Retrieved 12 December 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Library of Congress Copyright Office (1920). Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1730. Retrieved 12 December 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.