Chronicle of Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams's wife, Virginia Rose Best, died at the age of 96.

Ansel Adams died from cardiovascular disease at the age of 82 in the intensive-care unit at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, California.

The Mural Project ended, and because of World War II, the murals were never created.

Ansel Adams took the photograph 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico'. The date was determined from astronomical calculations in 1991.

Ansel Adams graduated from the eighth grade at the Mrs. Kate M. Wilkins Private School.

The San Francisco earthquake occurred. Ansel Adams, then four years old, was uninjured in the initial shaking but was tossed face-first into a garden wall during an aftershock, breaking and scarring his nose.

Ansel Easton Adams was born in the Fillmore District of San Francisco, California. He was the only child of Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray.