Celebrating Early Women Artisan Photographers
Between 1902 and 1932 many newspaper articles appeared about a woman named Mrs. C. R. Watson. These articles — which appeared in newspapers stretching across the country from Ohio to California — were publicity for Mrs. […]
It’s February 3, 2025. It’s the day after Groundhog day. Since I’m writing this ahead of time, I don’t know if the groundhog predicted an early spring this year. It’s definitely still plenty cold and […]
Today is the start of a new series on the blog that I’m calling “Early PICT.” PICT stands for “Photographer in Connecticut”; although “women” is not in the name itself, the series will of course […]
100 years ago today, readers of the Macomb, Illinois Macomb Daily By-Stander newspaper would have seen this ad: Although I hadn’t originally planned to continue the “100 years ago today” series in 2025, this ad […]
100 years ago today, regular readers of the Pomona, California newspapers would not have been surprised to see another ad for photographer Lily Wiltberger’s studio in newspaper. After all, Miss Wiltberger’s ads had been appearing […]
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 […]