Photographs, Pistols & Parasols
Celebrating Early Women Artisan Photographers
100 years ago today, a photo taken at the Wrensted Studio in Casper, Wyoming appeared in the local newspaper: Regular readers of that paper might have recalled that Ella Wrensted, the proprietor of the Wrensted […]
100 years ago today it would have come as no surprise to readers of the Shreveport Journal to see that the winner of the local Baby Peggy Contest had finally been revealed, since they’d been […]
100 years ago today, readers of the The Meriden Daily Journal newspaper in Meriden, Connecticut, might have been surprised to see that a syndicated business column called “Making Money” profiled a successful Jefferson City, Missouri […]
On this, the 100th posting here on the Photographs, Pistols & Parasols website, let me take you back in time today…
Today is Part 2 of photographer Ida Wilcox’s life story. Ms. Wilcox was a photographer from Salt Lake City, Utah; in Part 1 about her life, we learned about her skills as both a photographer […]
100 years ago today readers of the Knoxville Journal and Tribune opening their newspaper were treated to this beautiful bridal portrait of Mary Alice Brown (née Edgemore), taken by the Branson Sisters Studio:
Today, October 25, 2024, is the opening day of the 2024 World series. It seemed like a good day to take a moment to remember Coyla Gaspar, a professional photographer who was married to Harry […]
100 years ago today, photographer Bessie R. Edgecombe had the following ad in The Times newspaper in Hammond, Indiana:
100 years ago today, readers of the Salt Lake Telegram would have seen this ad prominently displayed in the paper:
