Jessie tarbox beals wikipedia

Canadian-born photographer and America's first female press photographer, known also for her portraits, architectural documentation, landscapes, and gardens.Born Jessie Richmond Tarbox, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on December 23, 1870; died in New York, New York, on May 31, 1942; daughter and youngest of four children of John Nathaniel (a machinist and inventor) and Marie Antoinette (Bassett) Tarbox; attended Collegiate Institute of Ontario; married Alfred T.

Beals, in 1897 (divorced); children: one daughter, Nanette (b. 1911).

A primitive camera catapulted Jessie Tarbox Beals from the life of a New England schoolmarm to a pioneering career as the first woman news photographer.

For three decades after her groundbreaking photographs appeared in the Buffalo Inquirer and the Courier in 1903, she won national acclaim, receiving more exposure than any other female photographer of her era.

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