Gibson
Gibson names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Gibson HUGH, an American diplomat
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HUGH, an American diplomat, born at Los Angeles, Cal., in 1883. He was educated in France, and in 1908 was appointed secretary of of legation at Honduras. In 1909-1910 he was 2d secretary of the American Embassy in London, and in 1910-1911 he was private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of State, in Washington. He served in Legations in Havana and Santo Domingo and in 1914 was appointed secretary of Legation, in Brussels, where he remained until 1916, when he was assigned to the Embassy in London. In the following year he was on duty at the Department of State in Washington. He was appointed in 1918 1st secretary of the American Embassy in Paris. He was a member of the Inter-Allied Mission to the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1918-1919. In the latter year he was appointed first American Minister to Poland. He was the author of "A Journal from Our Legation in Belgium" (1917).
Gibson CHARLES DANA, an Amercan artist and illustrator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES DANA, an Amercan artist and illustrator, born at Roxbury, Mass., in 1867. He was educated in private schools and studied art at the Art Students' League at New York. He early attained success with his black and white drawings in magazines; and his drawings of social subjects done in a gently satiric vein gained for him a wide reputation. He became one of the most widely known artists, not only in the United States but in England. Much of his work was done for the humorous periodical "Life," which he purchased in 1920. His published books of pictures include "Sketches in London"; "People of Dickens"; "Drawings"; "The Education of Mr. Pipp"; "A Widow and Her Friends"; and "The Social Ladder". He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Gibson WILLIAM HAMILTON, an American artist and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM HAMILTON, an American artist and author; born in Sandy Hook, Conn., Oct. 5, 1850; contributed to the "American Agriculturist" and "Hearth and Home," and supplied many natural-history subjects for the "American Cyclopædia." Many of his illustrations appeared in the "Art Journal" and in "Picturesque America"; and Mis illustrations of books were numerous and popular. He was a member of the Art Union and the Authors' Club. The essays, "Birds of Plumage," "A Winter Idyl," and "Springtime," appeared in "Harper's Magazine." His later works included "Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms." He died in Washington, Conn., July 16, 1896.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's, writing in 1921, praised Charles Dana Gibson's "gently satiric" social drawings without once using the phrase that now carries his name: the Gibson Girl, the pen-and-ink ideal of the American woman that defined the look of the 1890s and 1900s. He kept "Life" until the Depression drained it; the title was sold in 1936 to Henry Luce, who converted it into the photographic weekly most readers now think of as Life, and Gibson died in 1944. Hugh Gibson, in 1921 the new first American Minister to Poland, went on to serve as ambassador to Switzerland, Brazil and Belgium, to represent the United States at interwar disarmament talks, and to write on postwar peace with Herbert Hoover before his death in 1954. William Hamilton Gibson, already dead when the entry was compiled, is now the least remembered of the three, though his popular field books on wildflowers and edible mushrooms are still collected.
Written for this edition, 2026.