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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Camilla Short
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Camilla Short

active 20th century
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Biography...daughter of an Austrian nobleman, studied horticulture in England. She came to America in 1912 when she married architect Charles Wilkins Short Jr. With such close ties to England, Camilla Short watched intently as her friends there assumed important roles in the war effort. As a woman trained in horticulture.
Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War
By Elaine F. Weiss
https://books.google.com/books?id=v0VXRghWgc4C&lpg=PA44&ots=IZyuOqxyok&dq=camilla%20short%20hoyos&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q=camilla%20short%20hoyos&f=false I.S. 1/8/2018

corresponded with ISG 1913-1922
I.S. 1/8/2018
Person TypeIndividual
Last Updated8/7/24
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