Fredericka Martin

Fredericka "Freddie" Imogene Martin (June 2, 1905 Cooperstown, New York - October 4, 1992 Cuernavaca) was an American nurse, anthropologist, and photographer.

Life

She studied at Christ Hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey. She was a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the medical section of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades . She worked at Greenbelt, Maryland.[1]

She later studied the language of the indigenous Aleut people of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, Alaska, and advocated for their rights .[2][3][4][5]

Her papers are held at New York University.[2]

Works
  • Martin, Fredericka I. (2010). Before the storm : a year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942. Ray Hudson. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. ISBN 978-1-60223-103-0. OCLC 642205984. [3]
  • Geoghegan, Richard Henry. Martin, Fredericka I. (ed.). The Aleut Language: The Elements of Aleut Grammar with a Dictionary in Two Parts Containing Basic Vocabularies of Aleut and English.

References
  1. "Martin, Fredericka Imogen". The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  2. "Guide to the Fredericka Martin Papers ALBA.001". dlib.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  3. Martin, Fredericka (2010-04-15). Before the Storm: A Year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941-1942, by Fredericka Martin. ISBN 978-1-60223-076-7.
  4. Willen, Janet; Gann, Marjorie (2015-09-08). Speak a Word for Freedom: Women against Slavery. Tundra. ISBN 978-1-77049-653-8.
  5. Jones, Dorothy Knee; Jones, Dorothy Miriam (1980). A Century of Servitude: Pribilof Aleuts Under U.S. Rule. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-8191-1349-8.
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