Background
The daughter of Henry Ward Johns of the Johns Manville Corporation, Kirtland grew up in Yonkers.
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Helen Kirtland
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Education
In 1904, she attended a girls school in Germany.
Career
While young, she also visited Switzerland and France. During World War I, Kirtland was based in France as a correspondent for Leslie"s Illustrated Weekly. As an acknowledged journalist, she competed with her male counterparts, seeking out action.
One of her stories covers battles near the Piave River in northern Italy with pictures of the Austrian trenches captured by the Italians.
In 1919, Leslie’s Photographic Review of the Great War included several pages of her war photographs. During the war, she had also written an illustrated article, "A Tribute to Women War Workers", explaining how women had helped the Allies.
lieutenant included a rare portrait of Madame Poincaré, the prime minister"s wife. Lucian contributed to journals including Harper’s Monthly, American Legion Weekly, and the New York Herald Tribune, his stories illustrated with photographs taken by Helen but seldom attributed to her.
Following her husband"s death in 1965, Helen Kirkland died at their home in Bronxville on 3 October 1979.
