In today’s episode we meet two photographers who are another set of sisters running studios together at a variety of times and places in the early 20th century.
06 Meet the McKellips
05 The Adventures of the Misses O’Donnell
In today’s episode we meet not one woman named Miss O’Donnell, but two: sisters who together ran the Misses O’Donnell studio in Beloit, Kansas at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries.
04 Slightly Surreal World of Hannah Maynard
Today we meet Hannah Maynard, the 19th century photographer who opened her studio in 1862 and embraced a remarkable life as a professional photographer over the next 50 years.
03 Finding Miss DeM. Brown
In this episode of the Photographs, Pistols & Parasols podcast, we are on the hunt to answer the question: Who was the photographer ‘Miss DeM. Brown’?
02 The $100 Photo
In today’s episode we’ll meet a photographer named Gertrude Käsebier, and get a quick introduction to Pictorialism in order to understand the importance of a $100 photo.
Under the Hood
“But I always thought it was a man under that hood behind the camera!”
— Comment from a woman after learning that both men and women ran studios and were professional photographers in the 19th century.
01 Welcome to the podcast
A brief introduction to the first season of the Photographs, Pistols and Parasols podcast. The podcast celebrates the accomplishments and élan of early women artisan photographers, 1840-1930.