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Ansel Adams is born on February 20, 1902
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Earthquake hits San Francisco causing an uncontrollable fire that lasts 3 days. Ansel Adams gets a broken nose during an aftershock. He was 4 years old.
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Ansel Adam's father looses the Family Fortune in the Banker's Panic.
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Ansel Adams' parents take him out of school and have him tutored at home.
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While on vacation in Yosemite National Park Ansel Adams takes pictures with his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie camera.
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Ansel Admam' first photographs are published in the Sierra Club Bulletin.
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Ansel Adams marries Virginia Best at Yosemite National Park.
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In 1932 Ansel Adams has his first solo show. It was held at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum.
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Ansel Adams had his first child, Michael. A daughter, Anne, was born about 2 years later.
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Ansel makes one of his best known photos called :'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.
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The Guggenheim Museum awards Ansel Adams with a fellowship
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With the help of several other people Ansel Adams co- founds "Aperture" a photography magazine.
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President Jimmy Carter presents Ansel Adams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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On April 22, 1984 Ansel Adams dies in Carmel, California, at the age of 82.
