First Impressions of Early Women Photographers in Connecticut
Since Lee and I moved to Connecticut, we have been doing more research on early women artisan photographers here. One thing that has been striking is our impression that there are fewer women professional photographers here than in other states where we have already done more research, like Kansas and Massachusetts. We have wondered whether that impression was justified, or whether we were influenced by the amount of information available for Kansas (many online newspapers) and Massachusetts (the Steele and Polito compilation of 19th century photographers). To see whether Connecticut really had fewer early women photographers, I decided to look at Census data.
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