Ellsworth, Mary Louise, -1993

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1900 - 1993

Summary

Abstract:

Mary Louise Ulmer Ellsworth was a naturalist and historian.

Marie Louise Ulmer was the daughter of Jacob Ulmer, a banksman and entrepreneur from Philadelphia and Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Ulmer was taught how to fly by Walter Mittleholzer in Zürich, and in his airfield, she met Polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth who she married in New York on May 23, 1933. In 1935, during his Transantarctic flight, he named a peak of the Ellsworth Mountains after her: Mount Ulmer. After Ellsworth death, Ulmer would work in keeping his legacy alive through her work with the “Lincoln Ellsworth” Foundation, actively participating in the upkeep and renovation of the “Lincoln Ellsworth” exhibit in the American Museum of Natural History.

Sources

(1) https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mount_Ulmer

(2) https://frammuseum.no/polar-history/explorers/lincoln-ellsworth-1880-1951/

(3) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6444877/mary-louise-ellsworth

(4) https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll109/id/4770/

Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fv05w6

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Lincoln Ellsworth Polar Expeditions Collection

Collection

Identifier: Mem 48

Scope and Contents The Lincoln Ellsworth Polar Expeditions Collection is comprised of papers and objects that document Ellsworth’s North Pole and Antarctic expeditions between 1925 and 1939. Select items from the collection are currently on display in the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibition, “Lincoln Ellsworth, 1880-1951" and have been featured in past ones, such as “Partners in Discovery” (1963-1964) and “From the Museum’s Attic” (1985-1951). Various reproductions were made by the museum for these...

Dates: Usage: 1925-circa 2005

Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Lincoln Ellsworth Polar Expeditions Collection