{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2021}} {{short description|American photojournalist (1918-1969)}} {{for|the Norwegian handball player|Marie Rokkones Hansen}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Marie Hansen | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = PeterStackpolePhotoOfMarieHansen1944.jpg | imagesize = | alt = Marie Hansen, 1943, by Peter Stackpole | caption = Hansen in 1943 | birth_name = Marie Constance Hansen | birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|06|02}} | birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|06|06|1918|06|02}} | death_place = Pasadena, California, US | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LON|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} --> | spouse = {{marriage|David Wesley (born Nussbaum)|1944|}} | known_for = | field = Photography | training = | alma_mater = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | memorials = | elected = | website = | module = }} '''Marie Hansen''' (1918–1969) was one of the first female photojournalists employed by ''Life'' magazine. She joined the magazine in 1941 and was based in Washington, D.C. during the rest of the decade. Within a month of her appointment as staff photographer, she produced a photographic essay on the training of the first women officers in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Her photos from that assignment were featured in an exhibition held by the New-York Historical Society in 2019. Other major ''Life'' assignments included the reactions of Zoot suit lovers to wartime restrictions on extravagant clothing, the historic performance of Marian Anderson at DAR Constitution Hall, and a memorable photo of a billboard thermometer in Columbus Circle, Manhattan, displaying a temperature higher than 100°F. In April of 1945, when Harry S. Truman succeeded to the presidency, she was assigned to cover the White House and thereafter became one of the first women to join the White House News Photographers Association. Later that year, Hanson took a photo of Dwight D. Eisenhower, which he subsequently used as a quasi-official portrait.
==Early career==
As an undergraduate at the University of Missouri in the late 1930s, Hansen joined the staff of a student newspaper and took photos to accompany news items.<ref name="Missouri Journalism School 1946"/>{{refn|group=note|Hansen used an old Kodak Recomar camera to take the photos. Produced between 1932 and 1940, the Recomar was made by a German subsidiary of Eastman Kodak called Kodak AG Dr. Nagel-Werk. It was a folding camera that took both sheet and roll film at a maximum of 6.5 x 9 cm. sheet size.<ref name="Kodak Recomar 18"/><ref name="Kodak Recomar"/>}} In 1939, after graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the university's School of Journalism,<ref name="Gazette and Daily Jun 1969" /> she joined the newsroom of the ''Courier-Journal'' in Louisville, Kentucky. Although hired as a reporter, she was soon reassigned as a photojournalist and afterwards was promoted to editor of the paper's rotogravure section.<ref name="School of Journalism Graduates"/> In May of 1941, she left Louisville and traveled to New York City to become a researcher at ''Life'' magazine.<ref name="Life Sep 7 1942"/><ref name="Life Aug 31 1942"/>
==Life magazine== right|thumb|Marie Hansen, news photo of a WAAC officer candidate from the issue of ''Life'' for September 7, 1942 left|thumb|Marie Hansen, news photo of a young man wearing a zoot suit from the issue of ''Life'' for September 21, 1942 left|thumb|Marie Hansen, news photo of Coca-Cola sign on Columbus Circle from the issue of ''Life'' for September 25, 1944 right|thumb|Marie Hansen, Marie Hansen, news photo of Harry Truman from the issue of ''Life'' for April 30, 1945 left|thumb|Marie Hansen, news photo of Senator Tom Connally at his desk from the issue of ''Life'' for July 9, 1945 right|thumb|Marie Hansen, photographic portrait of Georges Braque in color as it appeared in ''Life'' May 2, 1949 left|thumb|Marie Hansen, photographic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower sitting at a desk, taken December 1945
Midway in the following year, the editors granted her request to become a staff photographer. Hansen was the third woman photographer ''Life'' had hired and one of two when her name first appeared on the masthead.<ref name="Life Aug 10 1942"/> The first woman photographer at ''Life'' was Margaret Bourke-White, who had been hired in 1936, left in 1940, and returned some years later.<ref name="Margaret Bourke-White camerawiki"/> The second was Hansel Mieth who was hired in 1937. She left the magazine in 1944 and was subsequently used on a freelance basis until the early 1950s, when she was blacklisted after refusing to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee.<ref name="San Francisco Gate"/> Hansen's first work appeared in the issue of August 10, 1942, where her photos of Congressman Hamilton Fish accompanied a scathing article describing him as thoroughly despised even by members of his own political party.<ref name="Life Aug 10 1942"/>{{refn|group=note|One of the photos showed him and his family informally posed behind their African-American housemaid. The caption read, in part, "He asked the photographer to put his Negro maid in front for this picture."<ref name="Life Aug 10 1942"/> }} A few weeks later she was given a major spread in an article about the newly formed Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. The article was a photographic essay of 34 images together with captions and a short informative text. The image of a WAAC officer candidate (at right) comes from this shoot. Hansen contributed two photos to the issue's next article, a narrative by a young woman, Frances Long, who had been interned in Manila for five months following the Japanese invasion. Hansen was also given a brief profile in a box on the issue's contents page. Included with a statement about her addition to the staff, was a photo showing her at work on the WAAC piece.<ref name="Life Sep 7 1942"/> Two weeks later, Hansen's photos illustrated a two-page spread on wartime restrictions that would effectively outlaw the zoot suit.<ref name="Life Sep 21 1942"/> The image of a young man in zoot suit (at left) comes from this shoot.{{refn|group=note|A letter to the editor in the issue of October 12 gave a reaction to the article in jive:"Sirs: Hurrah for your spread on zoot suits (LIFE, Sept. 21). A more solid set of pictures I've never seen. Any hepcat or ickie whose hearty isn't gladdened by those contagious grins spreading across the zoot-suit wearers' faces just ain't sending. Zoot suit's funeral is one more reason why we've got to win this war, but quick. Hitler can't do these things to us!"<ref name="Oct 12 1942"/> }} In mid-October, she contributed a full-page photo of a women's temperance union convention in an article on actions of the War Production Board to convert whiskey distillers into producers of industrial alcohol for wartime use; at the end of the month, photos she had taken showed women in war production jobs at the Sperry Gyroscope Company in Brooklyn and at a Curtiss-Wright plant in Paterson, N.J.<ref name="Life Oct 19 1942"/><ref name="Life October 26, 1942"/>
These early assignments showed the range of her work for the magazine, from elaborate photo spreads with minimal accompanying text to small groups of photos accompanying articles on various subjects, and from assignments where she was the only photographer to those where her work was one element in a larger framework of images. Some of her work fell into the category of serious news, some had cultural significance, and some concerned entertainment and social events.
The issue of January 18, 1943 contained photos she had taken showing wartime security at the United States Capitol, as well as shots of a New Year's Eve party given by a wealthy Washingtonian at which the 157 guests included a number of plain servicemen.<ref name="Life January 18, 1943"/> The next issue contained her photographs of the singer Marian Anderson at her historic performance at DAR Constitution Hall.<ref name="Life January 25, 1943"/> In February, she traveled to Savannah, Georgia, to shoot a Truman Committee investigation of unwarranted expenses and extreme delays in construction of concrete barges that were needed as part of the war effort; in April, she produced photos for a piece on how the upper-crust inhabitants of Newport, Rhode Island were contributing to the war effort; and in July, she photographed participants in a conference to discuss ways to produce an enduring peace following the assumed successful conclusion of the war.<ref name="Life Feb 22 1943"/><ref name="Life April 26, 1943"/><ref name="Life July 26, 1943"/> That summer, the magazine sent her to the Midwest on a major project to photograph the whole of the Missouri River. Appearing on August 30, the photo essay included large aerial images along with an array of ground-level ones.<ref name="Life August 30, 1943"/> Her other Life photos in 1943 accompanied articles on a genealogical society's field trip to an old graveyard and on five movie stars (including Ava Gardner) modeling a range of "fantasy" fashions.<ref name="Life August 2, 1943"/><ref name="Life December 20, 1943"/>
An article in the issue of January 3, 1944, entitled "Screen Test," described Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's attempt to capitalize on the popularity of women in traditionally masculine professions, particularly, as the author put it, "girl photographers", and the consequent screen test that Hansen was invited to take. The article notes that she had been taking photos of a studio orchestra when she was interrupted by producer Joseph Pasternak. It quotes her as saying, "I clambered dusty and disheveled from the catwalk. Pasternak came over and asked if I'd be interested in a screen test. I just laughed." After determining that it was not a gag, Hansen and the rest of the Life team on the assignment agreed with the idea and set up to record the event in photos and text. It's unclear how serious was the studio's offer and, in any event, Hansen ruled out any follow-up involving dramatic coaching and further tests saying, "I never have been more uncomfortable, for I was at the wrong end of the camera and the production crew was a skeptical audience."<ref name="Life Jan 3 1944"/> During the rest of the year, her photos appeared frequently in photo essays, such as one on the discharge and return home of a war dog named Goofy, another on the impresario Sol Hurok, and a third entitled "How Will Negroes Vote?".<ref name="Life August 21, 1944"/><ref name="Life August 28, 1944"/><ref name="Life October 16, 1944"/><ref name="Life September 11, 1944"/> Her 1944 photos also included articles on a labor political action committee, on the appearance of operetta star Jeanette MacDonald in a traditional opera, and on a wartime shortage of cigarettes.<ref name="Life November 20, 1944"/><ref name="Life November 27, 1944"/> On September 25, ''Life'' published one of Hansen's most memorable photos, showing a man in shirt sleeves standing on Columbus Circle in Manhattan with a billboard thermometer in the background displaying a temperature of greater than 100°F.<ref name="Life September 25, 1944"/>
Early in 1945, Hansen produced photos for an essay on Washington reporter, columnist, and bureau chief, May Craig. The spread included photos of her at home and at work. It shows her in posed shots with senators and informally with her friend Eleanor Roosevelt and it contains a memorable image of her reaching for a book on a set of floor-to-ceiling shelves that are arranged so that she can climb them to get a volume she needs.<ref name="Life February 19, 1945"/> After Harry Truman succeeded to the presidency in April of 1945, Hanson was assigned to join the White House corps of photographers. Thereafter, she mostly shot the president and his family, including photo essays on the high-level official visitors who came to see him during his first weeks in office, on his first 100 days on the job, and on his busy schedule before departing for a brief vacation after 16 months in office.<ref name="Life April 30, 1945"/><ref name="Life Aug 6 1945"/><ref name="Life Aug 26 1946"/> One of Hansen's first White House photos shows a young girl standing on the executive desk to pin a remembrance poppy on Truman's lapel.<ref name="Life April 30, 1945"/> A copy of this photo appears at right. In August of 1946, ''Life'' published a photo of a group of White House photographers who had tried to keep up with Truman during one of his fast-paced, early morning walks. The photo showed Hansen and ten male photographers who had managed to stay with the president for the two miles of his route. Its caption noted that another woman photographer had been left behind.<ref name="Life Aug 26 1946"/>{{refn|group=note|The other photographer was Marion Carpenter. Truman later joked about the incident, saying "It's good exercise if you keep it up, but not for high-heeled shoes, Miss Carpenter."<ref name="Remembering Marion Carpenter"/><ref name="Popular Photography Dec 1946"/> }} Hanson became one of the first women to join the White House News Photographers Association and, 1945 and 1947, that group awarded her prizes in its annual picture contest.<ref name="Washington Post Oct 1945"/><ref name="Popular Photography Feb 1947"/>{{refn|group=note|The first woman to join the association was Jackie Martin.<ref name="Popular Photography Dec 1947"/> She retired from the profession in 1940. During the Truman presidency Hanson and Marion Carpenter were association members.<ref name="Seeking Equity 2013"/> }}
Hanson photographed Senator Tom Connally on his return from signing United Nations Charter for the issue of July 9, 1945, and Leslie Groves, head of Manhattan Project, for a story on the Atomic Bomb that ran August 20.<ref name="Life July 9, 1945"/><ref name="Life August 20, 1945"/> One of Hanson's photos of Connally is shown at left. With the close of the war, there were no more nation-at-war photos to be taken, but the mix of subjects she was assigned was otherwise much the same as before: political figures, society figures, and celebrities, as well as a few topics of current interest. There were no large photographic essays by her in this period. The issue for January 6, 1947 was the last in which the masthead showed her as a staff photographer. Afterwards, she continued to contribute photos to the magazine, but did so as a freelancer while engaging in world travels with her journalist husband. The issue of January 13, 1947 contained her photo of Paul Yü Pin, Archbishop of Nanking, accompanying an article on Christianity in China.<ref name="Life January 13, 1947"/> A photo of hers headlined a 1949 article on Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the self-exiled head of the radical Apristas party in Peru.<ref name="Life March 28, 1949"/> That year, she also photographed a family of Argentinian quintuplets on the occasion of their sixth birthday and took a stunning color portrait of the artist Georges Braque for an article discussing his paintings.<ref name="Life August 1, 1949"/><ref name="Life May 2, 1949"/> The image of Braque appears at right.
During the war, Hansen took a photograph of Dwight D. Eisenhower that he thereafter used as his "official" photo.{{refn|group=note|Statements that Eisenhower chose a portrait she made as his official photograph appear in her ''New York Times'' obituary and some biographic sources.<ref name="New York Times Jun 1969"/><ref name="NY Historical Society 2019"/><ref name="ArtfixDaily"/><ref name="Kentucky Women Artists"/> }} Sources do not reproduce the photo and it cannot be found in issues of ''Life,'' but the photo archives of the magazine contain an image that is probably the one he liked. It is labeled "Dwight D. Eisenhower sitting at a desk" and is dated 1945–12.<ref name="Life Photo Archive"/> A copy of this photo is shown at left. Early in her career, Hansen contributed an article to ''Popular Photography'' magazine on the unexpected pleasure of photos taken while on vacation.<ref name="Popular Photography article Aug 1944"/> Shortly afterwards, the magazine assigned one photographer to take a portrait of her on holiday and another to record details about the shoot.<ref name="Popular Photography image Aug 1944"/>
In the early 1950s, Hanson stopped contributing work to ''Life''. She moved to California in 1965 and joined the staff of the California Institute of the Arts.<ref name="Gazette and Daily Jun 1969" /> She died at her home at the age of 51 on June 6, 1969.<ref name="New York Times Jun 1969"/><ref name="Gazette and Daily Jun 1969" /> A 2019 exhibit at the New-York Historical Society featured Hansen's photographs along with the work of five other women who worked for ''Life'' in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.<ref name="NYHS Six Women Photographers"/>{{refn|group=note|The other five women were Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Holmes, Lisa Larsen, Nina Leen, and Hansel Mieth. The exhibition was favorably reviewed in the ''New York Times'', ''Smithsonian Magazine'', and other sources.<ref name="New York Times Jul 2019"/><ref name="Smithsonian Magazine 2019"/> }}
==Career==
During Hanson's employment by the magazine, ''Life'' had few women photographers on its staff. As noted above, Margaret Bourke-White and Hansel Mieth preceded her in the position. In the 1940s, Bourke-White preferred to work as a freelancer for the magazine. After Mieth left the staff in August of 1944, Hansen remained as its only woman photographer until June, 1946 when Martha Holmes came on board.<ref name="Life June 3, 1946"/>{{refn|group=note|As noted above, Hanson transitioned from staff to freelance in January 1947.}} Similarly, during the same period, the large corps of photographers based in Washington D.C. included very few women. A photo taken of the White House News Photographers Association in October, 1947 shows one woman (probably Marion Carpenter) among the 70 members of the group who were then present.<ref name="White House Photographers 1947"/>
In 1946, Hansen wrote an article in which she explained the requirements, as she saw them, for succeeding in a male-dominated profession. It was obvious to her that she had to work just as hard and, in time, become just as good as the men. It was also important that she fit in, first by self-consciously minimizing her presence and eventually by becoming so much a regular colleague as to be "one of the boys". She said, "Perhaps I've mastered the formula over the years. I certainly felt I might have when one of the tougher Capitol newsmen patted me on the back and told me he had finally been convinced after watching me work; I was a gentleman, he said, and as such, had his backing. I consider it a compliment, and a clue as to the proper psychological approach we women must employ."<ref name="U of Missouri Bulletin 1946"/>
She said she was not an ardent feminist but felt women should not use feminine wiles or rely on male deference if they wished to succeed in the profession she had chosen; they should not routinely accept assignments that are slanted to the "woman's angle" of a subject. She told how she worked hard to be accepted as an equal and gave an example of a time early in her career when she overcame a concern that it would be unethical for a woman to share a darkroom with a man. Addressing the pressing post-war issue of jobs for demobilized servicemen, she maintained merit should be valued irrespective of sex. Of women in her field she said, "When we are sure that what we accomplish with our cameras can contribute toward raising picture standards on a newspaper or a periodical, we are justified in continuing our work."<ref name="Missouri Journalism School 1946"/>
She noted that the women photographers she knew had almost all the same basic qualifications as men. They understood the capabilities and operation of the equipment they used. They were good reporters, knew how to recognize and catch action at its peak, could produce pleasing compositions, and use natural and artificial lighting to advantage. They could plan picture stories and had the diplomatic skills that were needed to handle the interpersonal aspects of the work. The one area of weakness she recognized in other women photographers was not one of her own. She said, "But women, I fear have to push themselves into an interest in the chemistry of the darkroom or the mathematical background of their lenses or new developments in film and lighting. Lack of technological knowledge is the woman photographer's one salient weakness."<ref name="Missouri Journalism School 1946"/> {{Quote box |title = |quote = A good news photographer, particularly in magazine work, must fill some rather awesome qualifications. He, or she, must have a reporter's nose for news, a movie director's sense of the dramatic, an artist's eye for composition and lighting, a scientist's interest in chemistry and optics, and a public relations expert's diplomacy. For the best newspictures and news-feature picture sequences are a combination of good reporting, spontaneous action caught at its peak, pleasing composition and appropriate lighting—all built upon a basic, almost automatic knowledge of the camera and understanding of the people on whom the pictures are focused. — Marie Hansen, "A Woman's Place in Photography," ''University of Missouri Bulletin'' (vol. 48, no. 1, 1946)<ref name="Missouri Journalism School 1946"/> |align = right |width = 22em |border = 0px |bgcolor = #BCD4E6 |quoted = 1 }}
==Personal life and family==
Hansen was born on June 2, 1918, in St. Louis, Missouri.<ref name="Immigration 1948"/><ref name="Gazette and Daily Jun 1969" /> Her full name was Marie Constance Hansen.<ref name="New York Times Feb 1944"/> Her parents were Walter William Hansen and Alma Bantrup Hansen.<ref name="SSDI Walter Hansen"/> He was an accountant and controller at the Memphis Publishing Company.<ref name="New York Times Feb 1944"/> Hansen had a brother, Walter W. Hansen, Jr., and two sisters, Betty A. Hansen and Aurelia Hansen.<ref name="US Census 1930"/> In 1944, she married David Wesley Nussbaum (1917-2001).<ref name="New York Times Feb 1944"/><ref name="SSDI David Wesley"/> During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy as a chief pilot of a blimp.<ref name="Popular Photography 1944"/> Before and after the war, he was a reporter for newspapers in the Mid-Atlantic region, including the ''York Daily and Gazette'' (York, Pennsylvania) and, for a while, was a writer for ''Life'' magazine.<ref name="Kentucky Women Artists"/> Some time after 1948, Nussbaum changed his surname to Wesley. Hansen and her husband had one child, a daughter, Judith Ann Wesley.<ref name="Missouri Journalism Graduates 1958"/>
===Other names used===
Hansen's professional name was Marie Hansen. She also was identified by her full birth name and by two married names: Mrs. David Wesley Nussbaum and (after the surname was changed) Mrs. David Wesley.<ref name="Missouri Journalism School 1946"/><ref name="Missouri Journalism Graduates 1958"/>
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<ref name="Life Aug 10 1942">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sk4EAAAAMBAJ | magazine=Life |volume=13 |issue=6 |page=28 |title=Summer Politics | date=August 10, 1942 |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}</ref>
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<ref name="Life Sep 21 1942">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oE4EAAAAMBAJ | magazine=Life |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=44–45 |title=Zoot Suits | date=September 21, 1942 |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}</ref>
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<ref name="Life April 26, 1943">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EU4EAAAAMBAJ |magazine=Life |volume=14 |issue=17 |pages=31–34 |title=Newport, R.I. at War |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}</ref>
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<ref name="Popular Photography article Aug 1944">{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmIzAQAAMAAJ |author=Marie Hansen |journal=Popular Photography |volume=15|issue=2 |pages=49–50, 92 |title=Busman's Holiday |date=August 1944 |access-date=August 16, 2019 }}</ref>
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<ref name="U of Missouri Bulletin 1946">{{cite journal |url=https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/56307 | journal=University of Missouri Bulletin |volume=48 |issue=1 |page=58 |title=The Third Annual Fifty-Print Exhibition of News and Feature Pictures |format=PDF |access-date=August 19, 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Life June 3, 1946">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I0oEAAAAMBAJ | magazine=Life |volume=20 |issue=22 |page=22 |title=[masthead]; Photographers | date=June 3, 1946 |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Life Aug 26 1946">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nkkEAAAAMBAJ | magazine=Life |volume=21 |issue=9 |pages=30–31 |title=The Presidents Album | date=August 26, 1946 |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Popular Photography Dec 1946">{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KmczAQAAMAAJ |author=A.J. Ezickson |journal=Popular Photography |volume=19|issue=6 |page=16 |title=Press |date=December 1946 |access-date=August 16, 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Life January 13, 1947">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TEoEAAAAMBAJ |magazine=Life |volume=22 |issue=2 |page=39 |title=Christianity in China |date=January 13, 1947 |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}</ref>
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<ref name="Life March 28, 1949">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b00EAAAAMBAJ |magazine=Life |volume=26 |issue=13 |page=43 |title=People; A Refugee Peruvian Leader Finds Dangerous Sanctuary |date=March 28, 1949 |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Life May 2, 1949">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hk4EAAAAMBAJ |magazine=Life |volume=26 |issue=18 |page=80 |title=George Braque; Great French Innovator Has Evolved a Serene Modern Art of His Own |date=May 2, 1949 |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Life August 1, 1949">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_U4EAAAAMBAJ |magazine=Life |volume=27 |issue=5 |pages=28–29 |title=Argentine Quints Are Six |date=August 1949 |access-date=August 1, 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Popular Photography 1944">{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r2IzAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22marie+hansen%22+photographer&pg=PA16 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=July 1944 |title=Candid Shots |journal=Popular Photography |volume=15 |issue=1 |page=16 |access-date=July 16, 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="Smithsonian Magazine 2019">{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-exhibition-spotlights-six-life-magazines-earliest-female-photojournalists-180972513/ |title=''Life'' Magazine's Earliest Women Photojournalists Step Into Spotlight |author=Meilan Solly |date=June 27, 2019 |work=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=August 2, 2019}}</ref>
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<ref name="Missouri Journalism Graduates 1958">{{cite book |title=A directory of graduates and former students of the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 9th edition |url=https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/55364?show=full |year=1958 |publisher=University of Missouri |format=PDF |page=202 }}</ref>
<ref name="Seeking Equity 2013">{{cite book |author1=Ramona R. Rush |author2=Carol E. Oukrop |author3=Pamela J. Creedon |title=Seeking Equity for Women in Journalism and Mass Communication Education: A 30-year Update |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UyVC_17jWAcC |date=April 3, 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-62399-9 }}</ref>
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<ref name="Missouri Journalism School 1946">{{cite web |url=https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/56307/JournalismSeries.pdf |title=Third Annual Fifty-Print Exhibition of News and Feature Pictures |work=School of Journalism, University of Missouri |date=1946 |page=6 |access-date=July 14, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="School of Journalism Graduates">{{cite web |url=https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/55364 |title=A directory of graduates and former students of the School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 9th edition |work=University of Missouri Library Systems |access-date=July 16, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="NY Historical Society 2019">{{cite web |url=https://www.nyhistory.org/press/releases/six-pioneering-women-photographers-be-featured-summer-exhibition-new-york-historical |title=Life: Six Women Photographers |date=2019 |work=Museum and Library, New-York Historical Society |access-date=July 6, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="Kentucky Women Artists">{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/kentuckywomenartists/Home/marie-hansen |title=Marie Hansen|work=Kentucky Women Artists |access-date=July 15, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="ArtfixDaily">{{cite web |url=http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/2120-six-pioneering-women-photographers-featured-in-summer-exhibition- |title=Six Pioneering Women Photographers Featured in Summer Exhibition at New-York Historical Society |work=Artwire Press Release from ArtfixDaily.com |access-date=August 2, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="Life Photo Archive">{{cite web |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/2AH2vC8aIzSKSQ |title=Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower sitting at a desk |work=Life Photo Collection via Google Arts & Culture |access-date=August 2, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="Remembering Marion Carpenter">{{cite web |url=https://www.whnpa.org/main/remembering-marion-carpenter/ |title=Remembering Marion Carpenter |work=White House News Photographers Association |access-date=August 16, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="White House Photographers 1947">{{cite web |url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/president-truman-is-seen-from-the-back-making-a-picture-of-news-photo/515339454 |title=President Truman Takes a Photo of Photographers |work=gettyimages; Bettmann Collection |access-date=August 16, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="NYHS Six Women Photographers">{{cite web |url=https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/life-six-women-photographers |title=LIFE: Six Women Photographers |work=New-York Historical Society |access-date=August 20, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="Immigration 1948">{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVPZ-XHCC |title=David Wesley Nussbaum, 1948 |work="New York City Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch; citing Immigration, New York City, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.) |access-date=July 16, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="US Census 1930">{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP76-LY4 |title=Walter W Hansen Jr. in household of Walter W Hansen, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States |work="United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 207, sheet 13B, line 68, family 172, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2279; FHL microfilm 2,342,013 |access-date=July 16, 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="SSDI Walter Hansen">{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSW9-R97 |title=Walter Hansen, 17 Nov 1976 |work="United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing }}</ref>
<ref name="SSDI David Wesley">{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J25C-BWB |title=David Wesley, 14 Dec 2001 |work="United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing |access-date=July 16, 2019 }}</ref>
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<ref name="New York Times Feb 1944">{{cite news |title=Miss Marie Hansen Becomes Affianced: Troth to Lt. D.W. Nussbaum, Naval Air Arm, Announced |work=New York Times |date=February 6, 1944 |location=New York City |page=38 }}</ref>
<ref name="Washington Post Oct 1945">{{cite news |title=Awards Given for D.C. News Photographs |newspaper=Washington Post |date=October 21, 1945 |location=New York City |page=M2 }}</ref>
<ref name="New York Times Jun 1969">{{cite news |title=Marie Wesley Dies; Life Photographer |work=New York Times |date=June 10, 1969 |location=New York City |page=47 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/10/78349888.html?zoom=14.870000000000001 |url-access=subscription |access-date=August 10, 2020}}</ref>
<ref name="Gazette and Daily Jun 1969">{{cite news |title=Mrs. David Wesley, 51, Former Yorker, Is Dead | work=The Gazette and Daily | location=York, Pennsylvania | date=June 10, 1969 | page=30 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57104249/mrs-david-wesley-51-former-yorker/ | access-date=August 10, 2020 | via=newspapers.com }}</ref>
<ref name="San Francisco Gate">{{cite news |title=Hansel Mieth — Admired Photojournalist |author=Ken Conner |work=San Francisco Gate |date=February 17, 1998 |location=San Francisco, California |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hansel-Mieth-Admired-Photojournalist-3013897.php |access-date=July 30, 2019 }}</ref>
<ref name="New York Times Jul 2019">{{cite news |title=The Female Gaze at Life Magazine |author=Will Heinrich |work=New York Times |date=July 5, 2019 |location=New York City |page=C12 }}</ref>
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