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, […]
Everyone knows what a wedding dress is like.Emily Post, 1910 There was an announcement earlier this summer from The Kate — a museum dedicated to all things related to the actress Katharine Hepburn — that […]
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 […]
I was focused on the multi-generational aspect of the Stanton Studio(s) in my last post and I neglected to provide many examples of photos taken by those studios. So, today I want to correct that.
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 […]
Ollie H. Monroe was an early woman photographer that I talked about here on the podcast a couple of years ago. She had such a long and varied career that it took me 2 episodes […]
The 19th Century woman we’re going to meet today wasn’t a professional photographer. Rather, she was a woman who had a passion for photography …. and marched to the beat of her own drummer …. […]
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 […]
Today we have something a little different: an artistic “portrait” of the 5 members (photographers all) of the jury for 1899 Philadelphia [Photography] Salon. The jury selected the entries to be exhibited in the 1899 […]
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 […]