A Little Shaver by Beatrice Tonnesen

c.1899 / Photographic print from copy neg
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, DC

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The Tonnesen sisters are credited with the creation of modern commercial photography in 1897. “One day we thought up a fine scheme. We would make advertising pictures using live models. It had never been done before,” she later recalled…The photographs she made were marketed to large companies in Chicago who purchased the rights to use them in their advertisements.
~ ©Scott Cross, beatricetonnesenart.com/

On the life and work of photographer Beatrice Tonnesen~
https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/March-2010/On-the-life-and-work-of-photographer-Beatrice-Tonnesen/

Gustav Klimt by Pauline Kruger Hamilton

c.1909 / Autotype print / Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

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A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, she performed as a zither soloist and was a well known artist. For a number of years, she was designated as the official photographer for the court of Franz Josef, former Emperor of Austria.
~A Snapshot of Pauline Kruger

May Day by Kate Matthews

From the book The American Annual of Photography, 1911

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Matthews used that big bellows-style camera with glass plate negatives, black hood, and tripod for the rest of her life. She experimented with cameras that captured snapshots via automatic shutters, but she considered her photography an art and preferred to control light exposure with a lens cap. She also controlled every step of the development process in her own darkroom.
~Kate Matthews Collection, Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, KY

Patchin Place, leading off from 10th Street by Jessie Tarbox Beals

1916 / Gelatin silver print / 10″x8″ / New-York Historical Society, NY, NY

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Jessie Tarbox Beals ended her 12-year teaching career in 1900. That September, she received her first credit line from Vermont’s Windham County Reformer, for photos made for a fair. These gave her the distinction of being one of the first published woman photojournalists.
~Prints & Photographs Reading Room, LOC

Theodore Roosevelt by Zaida Ben-Yúsuf

c.1899 / Platinum print / 8″x6 1/3″ / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, DC

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Starting in 1896, Ben-Yúsuf worked in several areas of photography–fine art, fashion, theater, celebrity portraiture, newspapers, and illustration–and also wrote magazine articles with photographic illustrations. In the art photography field, she rose quickly to the highest echelons in London and New York. ~Prints & Photographs Reading Room