Anderson Sisters

Ruth Matilda Anderson was an American photographer who traveled abroad in the 1920s to document Spanish culture. Ruth worked for the Hispanic Society of America. During her travels she took over 10,000 images of Spanish people, places and genre scenes such as people at work, doing chores, children playing, and holiday customs. Alfred accompanied Ruth on her first trip to Spain. They toured in a Ford, and also traveled by horses, boats and 'on foot.' Ruth focused on the study of Spanish costumes, making several more trips to Spain in search of related information and photographic images. In 1954, she was appointed Curator of Costumes of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library.

Miriam Anderson Worlock was described as a "Kearney woman who can sing, paint, take photographs, ride horses, climb mountains and is an expert at baking bread." Miriam successfully pursued her talent for landscape and still life painting as well as ink drawing. She is the first Kearney artist to have her work included in the Nebraska Art Collection and some of her art is still held in the collections of the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney today.

Elizabeth Theodora Uldall was an American linguist and phonetician. Elizabeth taught at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. She produced some of the earliest video recordings of vibrating vocal folds, using herself as a subject. Elizabeth also worked on the intonation and rhythm of African languages.

All three sisters had pride in their hometown of Kearney, NE. Ruth, Miriam, and Elizabeth obtained many of the skills that they used to follow their passions in the arts from their parents, Alma Matilda (described as a "quiet, artistic" woman who liked to paint) and Alfred T. Anderson (a local photographer and an "energetic, talented man"). Miriam stayed in Kearney for the remainder of her life and taught Latin and Music while continuing to run the photography business. Later in their lives Elizabeth and Miriam stayed in Kearney NE. Ruth stayed in New York. All three are buried in the Kearney Cemetery.

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