Clover held a good deal [of] pain, despite her perfect-seeming privileged upbringing, she still was human and had immense feelings of loss. She carried her baggage and photography was a way for her to express herself and her longing for human connection.
~ https://www.oursphotomag.com/blog/marian-hooper-adams-1880

Emma Jane Gay (1830 – March 15, 1919) (also known as E. Jane Gay) was an American woman who devoted her life to social reform and photography. She is notable for her photographs of the Nez Perce, which she took during a federal expedition led by American ethnologist and anthropologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher. ~Wikipedia