Colcord, Joanna C. (Joanna Carver), 1882-1960

LC control no.	n 84108345
Personal name heading	Colcord, Joanna C. (Joanna Carver), 1882-1960 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Colcord, Joanna Carver, 1882-1960
Found in	Her Sea language comes ashore, 1977: t.p. (Joanna Carver Colcord) Roll and go, 1924: t.p. (Joanna C. Colcord) LC data base, 9-1-84 (Colcord, Joanna Carver, 1882-1960) Penobscot Marine Museum Web site, 19 Aug. 2011: (Joanna C. Colcord; Joanna Carver Colcord; Joanna Colcord was born March 12, 1882, in the South Seas on the bark Charlotte A. Littlefield, out of Searsport, Maine, of which her father, Lincoln A. Colcord, was captain. Her mother was Jane French Sweetser. Her brother, Lincoln Colcord, Jr., was b. 1883 aboard the same vessel. All were residents of Searsport, Me. She earned a Master's Degree in Chemistry from the University of Maine and attended the New York School of Philanthropy. She worked for the Russell Sage Foundation and other philanthropic organizations in New York City between 1911 and 1944, in addition to documenting sailor's songs. She authored three books on this subject between 1924 and 1945. In 1950, when Colcord was 68 years old, she got married for the first time to a longtime friend, Frank John Bruno, and moved with him to St. Louis, Missouri, where she died in 1960)