Title	Catherine C. Hopley photograph
Subject	Hopley, Catherine Cooper, 1817-1911 Scientists Authors Women Snakes
Time Period	1880s 1890s
Place	London (England)
Description	Photograph of Catherine Cooper Hopley (1817-1911) of England, seated and talking with an unidentified man. Catherine was the elder sister of John P. Hopley of Bucyrus, Ohio, and this and other portraits are included in the Hopley Family Photographs Collection. Catherine authored one of the first popular books on snakes, titled "Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life" in 1882. She made a number of other important contributions to the study of herpetology and did fieldwork on snake populations in Ohio. Hopley authored a variety of other texts, including "Sketches of the Ophidians" (1873), "Life in the South" (1863), and "Adventures in the Wilds of the West" (1872).
Date of Original	ca.1880-1900
Collection	John P. Hopley Family Audiovisual Collection
Source	P 156; Box 1, Folder 12
Format	Picture Black-and-white photographs
Extent	8.6 x 11.1 cm
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	P156_B01F12_006.tif
Image Height	2612
Image Width	2034
File Size	15950820 Bytes
Date created	2014-03-01

Catherine C. Hopley photograph

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