Clara Louise Hagins
American photographer (1871–1957)
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Clara Louise Hagins (1871 – April 16, 1957) was an American photographer and clubwoman based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Early life
Clara Louise Hagins was born in Chicago, the daughter of John L. Hagins and Mary Ann McCormick Hagins. She had a younger sister, Alice Mary Hagins.[1]
Career
Hagins was a secretary and photographer at the William McKenzie Morrison portrait studio in Chicago. She was active in the Women's Federation of the Photographers' Association of America.[2] She served as first vice president in the federation's executive board in 1914 and 1915, working with Maybelle Goodlander and the Gerhard Sisters,[3] and she managed "the Circle", the federation's traveling collection of members' work.[4] In 1921 she was vice-president of the Photographers' Association of America, at their meeting in Buffalo, New York.[5][6] She was also active in the Association of Women's Clubs in Chicago,[1] and in the Dickens Fellowship of Chicago.[7]
Personal life
Hagins moved to Tampa, Florida by the 1940s, and died there in 1957, aged 85 years.[8]
