Photographs, Pistols & Parasols: Recent Episodes
Lee McIntyre
In today's special announcement, it's all about celebrating the publication of magazine article my husband, Chris, and I wrote about Miss C Smith, a talented woman and photographer from Lowell, Mass.
In today's episode, we meet the Chicago photographer Mabel Sykes, who was the favorite photographer of a rather famous silent movie star.
In today's episode we celebrate the life of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mater-Smith, a successful - and resourceful! — photographer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In today's May 1st episode we celebrate a photographer who was a driving force behind a photographers' labor union in Seattle in 1918.
In today's episode we meet a mother-daughter paid who both worked as early women photographers, but who probably never worked together.
A collage of photos by early women artisan photographers in honor of International Women's Day 2020.
My podcast episode that would have dropped on March 1st has unfortunately been delayed.
In today's episode, we'll meet the exceptional Goodlander sisters, two celebrated photographers who ran photography studios together in Indiana for more than half a century!
In today's episode, it's a special trip to Italy to celebrate a married couple who happened to be professional photographers in the late 19th century.
In today's episode we discover the adventurous life and career of a photographer named Sarah Luse Larimer.
In today's episode, we meet the extraordinary Franc E. Albright from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In today's episode, we're going to meet Mrs. M. Gainsford, a woman who was not only a successful photographer, but also an early entrepreneur and Kansas pioneer starting in the early 1870s.
There's been an unexpected delay in getting the next Photographs, Pistols & Parasols episode together. So it won't be posted today, August 15, as previously scheduled. But look for it no later than August 19.
In today's episode, we're going to meet Delia B. Rich Miracle, a successful photographer from Emporia, Kansas in the late 1800s who had an intriguing encounter with a woman who became notorious as the black widow of Kansas.
In today's episode, we discover the incredible story of the photographer Mrs. F.M. Hurd, and what happened to her after she closed her studio in Great Bend, Kansas.
In today's episode, it's part 2 of my conversation with Sarah Weatherwax from The Library Company of Philadelphia as we continue our discussion about the wonderful early 20th century photographer, Gertrude Saÿen of Philadelphia.
In today's episode, Sarah Weatherwax, Curator of Prints and Photographs from The Library Company in Philadelphia, introduces us to Gertrude Sayen, an early 20th century artisan photographer who specialized in artistic portraits of children. http://p3photographers.net/podcast/P3P042_sayen1.mp3
In today's episode, we're going to try to untangle some narrative threads as we meet Addie Libby Rundle, a prolific and talented photographer from Spokane, Washington in the early 20th century.
In today's episode, we have part 2 of the Peasley saga, a look at the life and career of Alda Burke Peasely Jordan.
In today’s episode, our quest to bring into focus the family history of the photographers behind the Peasleys Studio in Medford Orgeon uncovers many marriages, minor mysteries and even a possible murder.
In today's episode we're on a hunt where one photo leads to more than one story, as well as a continued appreciation of the prowess of Peter Palmquist.
In today's episode we'll learn who the photographers were for all the photos I included in my March 8, 2019 montage in honor of International Women's Day.
Today we explore 6 years in the lives of Glenn F. and Beatrice Porter, photographers circa 1900 in Ritzville, Washington.
Due to a family emergency, the next episode of Photographs, Pistols & Parasols is delayed until March 15th.
Today we explore the mysteries surrounding the lives, deaths, and lawsuits connected to the married photographers Nils and Alexia Halvorsen.
Today is a preview of a new feature coming to the podcast in 2019: "Fun Finds", where we'll get to see some special photographic finds.
Today we pay a virtual visit to the American Historical Association's 2019 Annual Meeting, as I give you a taste of my paper from that conference, which is all about nuances found in the multi-threaded narratives of early women artisan photographers.
In today's episode, it's all about travel ... including a bit more about the 19th Century traveling photograph studios known as Photo Cars.
In today's episode, we're in Brooklyn, E.D. in the 1860s, on the trail of the talented - and tantalizingly obscure - Mrs. Lydia A. Hicks.
In today's episode, we're still in Lawrence, Kansas, looking at the extraordinary lives of another talented family of photographers. The stories we'll discover about the Shane family include tales of triumph, tragedy ... and murder.
Today's episode is just a quick announcement that due to continuing logistical issues, Photographs, Pistols & Parasols will now be on hiatus until December 1st.
Today's episode is just a quick announcement that due to unforeseen logistical issues, Photographs, Pistols & Parasols will be on hiatus until October 1st.
In today's episode, our connections take us to Lawrence, Kansas, where we will encounter mystery, tragedy, and a photographic dynasty.
In today's start to Season Three, we'll meet several early women photographers in Colorado and learn how their lives and careers connect them not only to each other, but also to several other interesting people.
In today's episode we'll learn more about Mary and Margaret Snodgrass, the two Snodgrass sisters who ran the Snodgrass Picture Shop in Caldwell, Idaho from 1919 - 1939.
In today's episode we'll meet Mary Snodgrass, a woman who ran photography studios in the early 1900s in both Iowa and Idaho, partnering at first with her brother, and then later with each of her two sisters.
In today's episode we're following in the footsteps of early artisan photographer Belle B. Chase, as her 50+ year career takes her across the U.S. and around the world.
In today's episode we're going to meet Rosa Vreeland, the "more than ordinarily successful" early artisan photographer and photographic entrepreneur.
Today we're back in Blue Rapids, Kansas with photographer (Edith) Daisy Roche, her sister Emma, and a number of their fellow photographers circa 1903-1950s.
Today we explore the life stories of some of the 18(!) women photographers who were active as professional photographers in the tiny town of Blue Rapids, Kansas as early as 1893.
Today we have a tale of a successful photographer whose story unexpectedly involves a bit of larceny and deceit through her encounter with a mystery man.
Today we'll encounter misfortune, mystery, and a dash of serendipity as we learn more about some of the people mentioned in passing in the Eva B. Strayer episode.
In today's episode we travel to meet Miss Eva B. Strayer, a photographer who was (mostly) based in Huntington, Indiana.
In today's episode we take quick look at more early women photographers from Lowell, MA, and explore how those women's experiences are a microcosm of the multi-threaded narratives found in the stories of early women photographers in general.
In today's episode we dive into the records to uncover the story of a highly prolific photographer from Lowell, Massachusetts, who identified herself on her work only as "Miss C. Smith."
In this episode we take a quick look at an unusual story about one of Miss Libby's fellow photographers in Norway, Maine.
In this episode we'll travel to Maine to follow the trail to the wonderful early artisan photographer Miss Minnie Libby.
In this episode we take a look at the peripatetic Mary Winslow, an intrepid itinerant photographer who "always goes where she pleases."
In this episode, we get a special bonus update that solves the mystery of George Ober, the first husband of the early photographer Clara Ober-Towne. Special guest interview with John Felix, independent photo historian.
In this first episode of Season 2, we'll take a look back at a few of the women profiled in Season 1, to discover some exciting new details about them that came to light during my research travels over the past few months.
Tune in December 1st for the start of Season Two on the Photographs, Pistols & Parasols podcast!
In today's Season One extra, we take a moment to celebrate the accomplishments of a man who uncovered information on thousands of early women photographers: the incomparable Peter E. Palmquist.
Today we meet the remarkable Elizabeth Withington, who in the 1800s found success as a photographer while fashioning photographic tools from 19th century ladies fashions.
In today's episode we meet two 19th century Massachusetts photographers named Mrs. Towne: Clara Ober-Towne and Anna Wing Towne. Plus, we'll also discover a Miss Alma Whitney, another woman photographer who plays a prominent role in today's tale of two Townes.
In today's episode we meet two photographers who are another set of sisters running studios together at a variety of times and places in the early 20th century.
In today's episode we meet not one woman named Miss O'Donnell, but two: sisters who together ran the Misses O'Donnell studio in Beloit, Kansas at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries.
Today we meet Hannah Maynard, the 19th century photographer who opened her studio in 1862 and embraced a remarkable life as a professional photographer over the next 50 years.
In this episode of the Photographs, Pistols & Parasols podcast, we are on the hunt to answer the question: Who was the photographer 'Miss DeM. Brown'?
In today's episode we'll meet a photographer named Gertrude Käsebier, and get a quick introduction to Pictorialism in order to understand the importance of a $100 photo.
A brief introduction to the first season of the Photographs, Pistols and Parasols podcast. The podcast celebrates the accomplishments and élan of early women artisan photographers, 1840-1930.