Alice Curtis Desmond

Background

Desmond, Alice Curtis was born on September 19, 1897 in Southport, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Lewis Beers and Alice (Beardsley) Curtis.

Education

Graduate, Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Connecticut, 1916. Student, Parson's Art School, New York City, 1920. Doctor of Letters, Russell Sage College, 1946.

Doctor of Letters, Suffolk University, 1975.

Works

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  • Barnum presents General Tom Thumb

    ("236 pages + 24 informational pgs; 28 b+w illustrations (...)

  • Boys of the Andes (New World Neighbors Series)

    (Three short stories: Farm Boy of the Andes by Alice Desmo...)

  • Titus of Rome

    (A biography of the second Flavian emperor who was noted f...)

  • South American Adventures

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Bewitching Betsy Bonaparte

    (The Baltimore belle who almost became a queen.)

  • The Talking Tree

    (Juvenile native studies, Totem pole making. Tlingit India...)

  • Soldier of the sun : a story of Peru in the days of the Incas; illustrated by Ernest W. Watson.
  • Your Flag and Mine
  • Soldier of the Sun a Story of Peru in TH
  • Glamorous Dolly Madison
  • Teddy Koala,: Mascot of the Marines
  • Martha Washington, our first lady
  • Soldier Of The Sun; A Story of Peru in the Days of the Incas.
  • Sword and pen for George Washington

Membership

Fellow Society of America Historians. Member National League Pen Women (Juvenile award 1949), American Anthropological Association, American Folk Lore Society, National Association University Women, Society Mayflower Descendants, Colonial Dames American, Daughters Founders and Patriots American, New York State History Association, Society Woman Geographers, Federated Garden Clubs New York State (honorary), New York History Society (Pintard fellow), National Academy of Design, American Water Color Society, Photograph Society of America, Royal Photograph Society Great Britain, American Numismatic Association, American Philatelic Society, National Association Women Artists, Print Club Albany, Authors League American, Pen and Brush. Clubs: Women's National Republican, Colony, Junior League, Collectors (New York City).

Garden of America.

Connections

Married Thomas C. Desmond, August 16, 1923. Married Hamilton Fish, October 16, 1976 (divorced 1984).

Father:

Lewis Beers Curtis

Mother:

Alice (Beardsley) Curtis

Spouse:

Hamilton Fish

Spouse:

Thomas C. Desmond