page_title: Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Book plate for The Plastics Club designed by Elisabeth M. Hallowell
context_page_description: Elisabeth Moore Hallowell Saunders was an American botanical illustrator, author and photographer. Her best known works are illustrations and photographs she completed for her and her husband's books. A collection of her photographs is held by the Huntington Library.
context_section_description: Saunders worked at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art in 1893 as an instructor in pen and ink drawing. She continued to teach there until 1900 when she took a leave of absence as a result of ill health.
  During this time Saunders was a member of The Plastic Club, an arts organisation for women to promote collaboration and members' works. In 1902 Saunders designed the bookplate and insignia for the club.
  Also in 1902 she married Charles and they honeymooned in California and the American southwest. In 1904 Charles published his first book, a book of poems dedicated to Saunders and entitled In a Poppy Garden. Saunders illustrated that volume. The following year Saunders published a book of illustrations, California Wild Flowers. Charles wrote the descriptive text for that work.
  Partly in an attempt to improve Saunders failing health, the couple moved to Pasadena in 1906. Along with her illustration work, Saunders was a keen photographer. Many of her photographs were used to illustrate Charles' books including The Indians of the Terraced Houses and Under the Sky in California, both of which were published after her death.
  Saunders died in Pasadena in 1910.
caption: Bookplate for The Plastic Club
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