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Number 00517 |
Scan Date 6/10/02 |
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Time Period 1942 |
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Subject Matter Camp Sutton |
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Location Monroe, North Carolina |
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Description |
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Photographer (if known) |
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Notes Kathryn "Kat" Shute Pearson was an accomplished and professional photographer, particularly during the 1940s. Daughter of J. Raymond and Kitty Summerset Shute, many of the photos in this on-line collection including others besides Camp Sutton ones, were taken by her but not always identified as such. A good portion of her Camp Sutton photos were published in The Charlotte Observer or News during WWII. She was a graduate of Monroe High School (1919) and also Queens College (now University) in Charlotte in 1921. While in college she participated in most every club imaginable. An obvious lover of the arts, she honed her skills as a musician and poet, playing the guitar and ukelele in the college Jazz Band and serving as the Class Poet her senior year. She married Dr. Raymond Pearson June 9, 1928. He died in 1936; she never remarried. She appears in "Photographers in North Carolina, The First Century, 1842 - 1941" as 'active' in 1939 and afterwards. Sometime around 1953 she moved to Morehead City (N.C.) and made her home there until her death November 7, 1968. She is buried at Monroe City Cemetery (Suncrest) next to her husband. -pmp, 8/7/2011 (other sources for this information came from obituary notices and information shared by staff of the Archives Room at Queens University) |
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Measurements of original photograph |
Height 8" |
Width 10" |
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Type of photograph Black and White |
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