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Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee, English illustrator and educator (died 1988)

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Born
May 22, 1909
Died
November 30, 1988
Zodiac sign
Gemini
Birth year
1909

About Margaret Mee

Margaret Ursula Mee, MBE was a British botanical artist who specialised in plants from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. She was also one of the first environmentalists to draw attention to the impact of large-scale mining and deforestation on the Amazon Basin. In 1976 Mee was awarded the MBE for services to Brazilian botany and a fellowship of the Linnean Society in 1986. She created 400 folios of gouache illustrations, 40 sketchbooks, and 15 diaries.

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The world when Margaret Mee was born

Margaret Mee was born in 1909. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1909

  • Best-selling book"The Inner Shrine" – Basil King

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentHonus Wagner leads Pittsburgh Pirates to World Series victory
  • Top headlineRobert Peary claims to reach the North Pole
  • Technology milestoneBakelite (first fully synthetic plastic) invented
  • Notable inventionBakelite plastic
  • World population~1.69B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam Howard Taft
  • U.S. population88.8M

1909 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Margaret Mee's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19092026
Population88.8M341 million

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