Celebrating Early Women Artisan Photographers
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 […]
100 years ago today (February 21, 1924) we find a write-up of last night’s big ball in Boston that was sponsored by the British Naval and Military Veteran’s Association. One of the secretaries of the […]
Today we consider some snippets from a long article that appeared 100 years ago today in the Groton Times newspaper in New Hampshire, about a fire that occurred on January 31, 1924 in Littleton, New […]
100 years ago today, readers of the Dispatch newspaper in Moilne, Illinois, would have read this notice:
Hi everybody! First off, I would like to extend a lot of thank yous: – thanks to all for waiting patiently through the long delay in activity here on the blog – thanks also to […]
There’s a recording available here of my Sept 11, 2022 talk for the Photographic Historical Society of New England. There was a great discussion after my presentation – my presentation is only about 40 minutes […]
Although there isn’t an early women photographer with a connection to the photo of the 3 girls in my last post, Chris and I have uncovered some interesting information – and also a puzzle – […]