Background
Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. was born on June 7, 1910, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Photographer museum director mountain climber
Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. was born on June 7, 1910, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Henry Washburn, Jr. received a Bachelor of Arts in 1933 and Master of Arts in 1960, both from Harvard University in Cambridge. He also had two years of graduate study at Harvard's Institute of Geographical Exploration in 1934-1935.
Since 1939 Henry Washburn, Jr. has been director of the Museum of Science in Boston. From 1971 to 1975 he did fieldwork for a map of the Grand Canyon, published by the National Geographic Society and the Museum of Science, Boston.
Beginning in 1926 and continuing until 1955, Henry Washburn, Jr. led several mountain-climbing expeditions. He is best known for the National Geographic Society expeditions to Alaska that resulted in mapping out of Mount McKinley and the surrounding area.
From 1935 to 1942 Henry Washburn, Jr. was an instructor at Harvard University's Institute of Geographical Exploration.
Henry Washburn, Jr. became a member of the national advisory board of the World Center for Exploration in 1969. He was named an Honorary Fellow of the American Geographical Society in 1961. Henry Washburn, Jr. joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1960, the Royal Geographical Society (London) in 1936, and the Explorers Club in 1931.