Title	Catherine C. Hopley outside London home
Subject	Hopley, Catherine Cooper, 1817-1911 Scientists Authors Women Snakes
Time Period	1900s
Place	London (England)
Description	Photograph of Catherine Cooper Hopley (1817-1911) standing in the doorway of her home in the Kew district of London, England, June 27, 1903. 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	June 27, 1903
Collection	John P. Hopley Family Audiovisual Collection
Source	P 156; Box 1, Folder 12
Format	Picture Mounted on Board
Extent	14.3 x 19.1 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_013_01.tif
Image Height	4522
Image Width	3383
File Size	45906832 Bytes
Date created	2014-03-01

Catherine C. Hopley outside London home

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