{"value"=>"<p>William Osgood Field, known as \"Osgood\" within the family, was born in 1904, the eldest of William B. Osgood Field and Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field's children. He was educated at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut and Harvard University. Field began working for University Film Production at Harvard in 1928, traveling to Africa for his first project. While on this trip he met his first wife, Alice Withrow. Field traveled with the Open Road organization to the Soviet Union and produced a documentary on the people of the Caucasus. Alice became interested in the Soviet Union as well, and traveled there with her husband in 1931 to study the status of women. This trip provided the material for her first book, Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Russia.</p> <p>Field had developed a serious interest in glaciers on trips to Alaska during his college years. He returned to glacier research in the 1930s and became a pioneer and leader in the field. In 1940 he joined the staff of the American Geographical Society remained there until his retirement in 1969. With a Camera in my Hands is the title of his oral biography.</p> <p>The bulk of his papers can be found in the William O. Field Papers, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, University of Alaska, Fairbanks and in the William O. Field fonds, Archives and Library, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, Canada.</p>"}