Women photographers -- Pictorial works
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Julia Driver collection of women in photography
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 690
Abstract:
This collection consists chiefly of 1559 photographs collected by Julia Driver that represent work by over 550 commercial women photographers, 1845-1940. The collection also includes thirty examples of cased photographs, which consist of ambrotypes and daguerreotypes, 1845-1862. The collection is rich in card photographs, especially cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs created during the second half of the nineteenth century, as well as some other photographic print formats, items of...
Dates:
1845-1940, bulk 1855-1900
Peter Palmquist collection of women in photography
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2600
Abstract:
This collection consists of biographical files collected by Peter Palmquist for over thirty thousand women involved in photography and photographic materials that represent the work of nearly two thousand women. Palmquist began the Women in Photography International Archive in 1971 as a systematic study of women photographers in California, which then extended to the American West. By 1994, he broadened the collection to include women involved in photography since its beginning to...
Dates:
circa 1840-2017