DONOR:

Godfrey Crane

SIZE:

.25 cubic foot

SCOPE & CONTENT:

Photos:  Slides of travel and local scenery, 1960-1963, including: Champaign-Urbana, IL, Chicago, Glencoe, O’Hare Field, Los Angeles, and New York City.

Topics include: buildings, cars, buses, trains, planes, military (U.S. Army WAC School), people, hotels, YMCA (Chicago)

BIOGRAPHY:

Godfrey Crane was born in London, England, and immigrated to the United States in 1958.  He traveled widely for several years, during which he took the photographs in the collection that has been donated to IHSF.

After two years in the U.S. Army, during which he graduated with honors from the U.S. Women’s Army Corps School, Crane moved to New York City where he attended CCNY at night to earn his bachelor’s degree in chemistry.  He continued his education at Columbia University, receiving a doctorate in 1979 in biochemical x-ray crystallography.  Studying under Barbara Low at Columbia University, Godfrey is truly the intellectual great-grandson of the renowned J.D. Bernal of Oxford.

After a career in industrial chemistry, mainly in marketing and analytical method development, Crane moved to New Mexico, where he taught high school chemistry for ten years.

Now retired, Godfrey and his wife, Johanna Binneweg, are busy with volunteering and in visiting grandchildren and great-grandchildren on two coasts.  Godfrey is a regular volunteer at IHSF.