Segerblom, Cliff
Description
Artist and photographer Cliff Segerblom was born August 1, 1915 in Los Angeles, California. He majored in art at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1934, and later met Genevieve "Gene" Wines. In 1938, they moved to Boulder City, Nevada where Segerblom worked as a photographer for the Bureau of Reclamation to photograph the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) project. They married in 1941 and moved to Panama, where Segerblom photographed the Third Locks Project on the Panama Canal. In 1969, Segerblom was invited to record the spashdown of Apollo 12. His drawings of the Apollo 12 splashdown are currently part of the United States Navy's art collection and digitized by the Naval Historical Foundation. He died on September 8, 1990.
Sources:
McCormick, Jim and Dennis McBride. "Cliff Segerblom." June 1, 1990. Accessed on March 12, 2020. http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/cliff-segerblom
"C.O.D. Mail." Naval Historical Foundation. 2018. Accessed March 12, 2020. https://www.requestaprint.net/nhf/itemdetail.php?work_id=4465&gallery_id=24
Genealogy files about "Cliff Segerblom." Accessed on March 12, 2020 on familysearch.org
