Yvette Borup Andrews

Yvette Huen Borup was born in Paris to American parents, Henry Dana Borup (1854–1916) and Mary Watson Brandreth Borup (1854–1897). Her father was an American military attaché in Paris and Berlin before World War I. Her maternal grandfather, George A. Brandreth, and her great-grandfather, Congressman Aaron Ward, were both New York politicians. Her great-great-grandfather, Elkanah Watson, was a notable New York businessman. Her older brother, George Brandreth Borup (1885–1912), was assistant to Robert Peary on the North Pole Expedition, and wrote a book about his experiences in the Arctic. Yvette Borup was educated in France, Germany, Italy, and New York.Lydia Pyne, [https://publicdomainreview.org/2018/01/10/yvette-borup-andrews-photographing-central-asia/ "Yvette Borup Andrews: Photographing Central Asia"], The Public Domain Review (January 10, 2018). One of her school friends at the Kaiserin Auguste Institute was Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29964660/yvette_borup_andrews_1914/ "Soulmate of a Princess"] The Boston Globe (October 18, 1914): 45. via Newspapers.com[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29975192/yvette_borup_1913/ "Princess Bewitched by a 'Yankee' Girl"] The Atlanta Constitution (June 29, 1913): 3. via Newspapers.com

Yvette Borup Andrews was an ethnographic photographer and filmmaker[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29975575/yvette_borup_andrews_1916/ "Take Moving Pictures in Darkest China"] Norwich Bulletin (February 11, 1916): 8. via Newspapers.com for the American Museum of Natural History. She was the photographer assigned to the museum's First Asiatic Zoological Expedition (1916–1917), to China, Tibet, and Burma, and the Second Asiatic Zoological Expedition (1918), to Mongolia and North China, both expeditions led by her husband. She developed her still images and films in a portable "rubber darkroom" in the field. In the 1920s she was again in the field with Andrews, as photographer on the museum's Central Asiatic Expeditions. On that trip, she photographed the last Maidari Festival in Ulaanbaatar, creating a valuable historical document of the custom.

Her photographs were published in Camps and Trails in China (1918), a book she co-authored with her husband.Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12296/12296-h/12296-h.htm Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure and Sport in Little-Known China] (New York & London, 1918). More photographs by Andrews appeared in Across Mongolian Plains  (1921).Roy Chapman Andrews, [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/28657 Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's "Great Northwest"] (D. Appleton and company 1921). Soon after their 1931 divorce, Roy Chapman Andrews told an audience that "Physically and intellectually, women may be the equals of men for the work of exploration, but temperamentally they are not. They do not stand up under the little daily annoyances that loom large to them in the somewhat trying work involved on an expedition. The trivialities which men can ignore completely disturb them and prevent them from settling down to hard and conscientious work." The Society of Woman Geographers objected to his observations.[https://newspaperarchive.com/marriage-clipping-jun-16-1935-1109909/ "Scientist Andrews Will Try Again to Mix Marriage and Exploration"] Laredo Times (June 16, 1935): 14. via NewspaperArchive.com

In 1940, she was active with the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, volunteering as a "Minute Woman" at a phone bank to build support for the United States' entry into World War II.Mary E. Plummer, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29975905/yvette_borup_andrews_1940/ "U. S. 'Minute Women' in Drive to Aid Britain"] The San Francisco Examiner (September 26, 1940): 15. via Newspapers.com

Yvette Borup married naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960) in 1914; he was an acquaintance of her late brother."Miss Yvette Borup a Bride" The New York Times (October 8, 1914): 11. via ProQuest She had two sons. The father of George Borup Andrews (1917–2007) was Roy Chapman Andrews but, although Yvette was married to Roy Chapman Andrews at the time of the birth of her second son, Roy Kevin Andrews (1924–1989), the first man to visit her to see the newborn son was not Roy Chapman Andrews, but Harold St Clair (Chips) Smallwood. On the eve of Kevin's marriage nearly 30 years later, Yvette announced to Kevin that Smallwood, and not Roy Chapman Andrews was his father. Yvette and Roy Chapman Andrews were divorced in 1931."Divorces R. C. Andrews" The New York Times (April 1, 1931): 13. {{ProQuest| }} .Hazel Canning, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29964931/yvette_borup_andrews_1931/ "Unfortunate Divorce of the Man who Discovered Dinosaur Eggs"] The Montana Standard (May 24, 1931): 87. via Newspapers.com She died in a 1959 traffic accident, near Bahabón de Esgueva, in the province of Burgos, Spain, aged 68 years.R. Pérez Barredo, [https://www.diariodeburgos.es/noticia/ZA3D601C2-F819-624A-255CB9F021849950/20160214/tragica/muerte/burgos/mujer/indiana/jones "La trágica muerte en Burgos de la mujer de Indiana Jones"] Diario de Burgos (February 14, 2016).

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• [http://lbry-web-007.amnh.org/digital/index.php/collections/show/10 Photographs taken by Yvette Borup Andrews and others] on various expeditions, in the American Museum of Natural History Research Library, Digital Special Collections.
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