Alice Austen
Alice Austen was a photographer who documented the lively activities of her queer female social circle at the turn of the century in New York City.
Alice Austen was a photographer who documented the lively activities of her queer female social circle at the turn of the century in New York City.
American pilot and photographer who has taken aerial photographs in countries all around the world.
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild (1914-2008) worked at the Harvard Observatory from approximately 1935 to 1938.
She photographs Mexican society and culture. Between 1979 and 1988, she photographed a matriarchal society in Juchitán de Zaragoza, an indigenous town in southeast Oaxaca. She also photographed Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles.
American artist and art collector
Susan Charter (ca.1823-1875) was the first woman to open a photography studio in Boston.
Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) was a photographer born in Maine. She later lived in Dorchester, photographing her home on Harley Street and exhibiting widely.
English blacksmith, photographer and ancestor of the founders of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Railway contractor
Ella E. McBride was an internationally noted fine-art photographer, as well as an avid mountain climber, environmentalist, and civic leader.