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

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

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

Mr. Cones gave up his own career as a photographer to develop his wife’s prints, using the gum-bichromate process that enabled the developer to not only retouch but to further enhance images through the addition of color or shading. ~http://historiccamera.com/

…from 1891 to 1894 she studied painting at the Art Students League in New York…While in New York, Wiggins joined the Society of Amateur Photographers and met Stieglitz, who inducted her into the Photo-Secession when he established the group in 1902. ~The Oregon Encyclopedia