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

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

The Mural Project, for which Ansel Adams was contracted, ended due to World War II.

Ansel Adams took the photograph 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico,' one of his most famous works. The date was determined from astronomical calculations in 1991.

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

Ansel Adams, then four years old, experienced the San Francisco earthquake. He 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.