Jessie Tarbox Beals
America’s first female news photographer; The Buffalo Inquirer and The Courier hired her as a staff photographer in 1902.
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Zaida Ben-Yusuf
Ben-Yúsuf was one of the “New Women” who joined the paid labor force in the 1890s. She was in the vanguard of women who became professional photographers as magazines reached massive circulation figures, and photographs supplanted drawn illustration art.
Alice Rohe
Alice Rohe became a newspaper writer in the 1890s and joined Theta Sigma Phi, the first American journalism professional society for women, when it was established in 1909.
Gertrude Käsebier
At the turn of the twentieth century, Gertrude Käsebier was one of the best known photographers in the United States.
Marion Post Wolcott
Marion Post Wolcott is best known for the more than 9,000 photographs she produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1938 to 1942.
Carol M Highsmith
American photographer
Marilyn Nance
African-American photojournalist
Erna P O’Harris
Erna P. Harris (1908–95) was an African American columnist who defended Japanese Americans.
Hatsuye Egami
Hatsuye Egami was an Issei intellectual who wrote for Japanese American publications in California before the war. Her published assembly center diary and columns for the Gila News Courier provide a rare Issei woman’s perspective on the wartime incarceration.
Chiye Mori
Loretta Chiye Mori was a poet and journalist who contributed regular columns and articles to numerous Southern California Japanese American publications.