Voices of the Woods by Caroline Haskins Gurrey

1909 / Photo print / 10″x12″ / National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Between 1905 and 1909, Gurrey produced a series of fifty portraits of Native Hawaiians and other young men and women of mixed-race heritage, largely depicting people from the Kamehamaha School. These portraits were exhibited at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, and some were shown at the San Francisco Exposition (1915).
~Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives

A Ruby Kindles in the Vine by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson

1905, 1909, 1912, 1914 / From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward FitzGerald,
illustrated with photographs by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson and Blanche Cumming

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In late 1903 she began working on a series of photographs to illustrate the classic selection of poems, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The concept of illustrating a literary work with fine art photographs was new at that time, and The Rubaiyat was one of the very first American books in this genre.
~Wikipedia

Helen Keller by the Gerhard Sisters

c.1914 / Photographic print from copy neg
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, DC

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The Gerhards began their photography careers as young women. They studied for three years with Fitz W. Guerin, the best-known St. Louis portraitist and a photographer of staged scenes. When Guerin retired in January 1903, the Gerhards acquired his studio and negatives.
~Prints & Photographs Reading Room, LOC

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