Photographs, Pistols & Parasols
Celebrating Early Women Artisan Photographers
100 years ago today, readers of the Lincoln Star in Aurora, Nebraska opened their papers and found some startling news. Popular Aurora photographer Nora Lyons had decided to sell her photography studio to Stanley Lombard, […]
100 years ago today the following announcement appeared in the Birmingham News: Yes, 100 years ago today, Birmingham News readers would have been excited to learn that Montevallo’s own photographer, Alice Yeager, was elected vice-president […]
100 years ago today, this notice appeared in the newspaper in Springfield, Ohio: Note that M.C. Stanton, his wife Rosetta, and their youngest daughter Martha were all photographers at the Stanton Studio. But… … there […]
Today we’re looking at an article published on June 11, 1924 in the Daily Inter Lake newspaper from Kalispell, Montana. (Kalispell is the county seat of Flathead County, Montana.) The article in question outlines a […]
On May 27th, 1924, faithful readers of the Rushville Republican newspaper in Rushville, Indiana would not have been surprised to spot an ad for the Euphemia Lewis photography studio. You see, from the moment Miss […]
100 years ago today, readers of the Joplin Globe newspaper in Joplin, Missouri would have opened their newspapers and found photos of two women:
100 years ago an article in the Portage Daily Register celebrated the photographic prowess of local photographer Janet Townley and her talent at successfully restoring a faded photograph from 1869.
100 years ago today, if we were in Kansas reading the Longford Journal newspaper, we would have run across the sad news that Mrs. Brita Kalin Rosenquist had died. Mrs. Brita Kalin was widowed in […]
March 31, 1924 Oh dear. What’s going on with between Mary E. and William J. Moon, the dynamic couple who ran the popular Moon photography studio in Charlotte , NC? The following notice appeared in […]
If we were to travel to Chapel Hill, NC 100 years ago today and get a copy of the Daily Tar Heel newspaper, we might not be surprised to see that Miss Katie L. Johnson […]