Gatch made her mark at the local, regional, and national levels with winning contest entries and acceptance of her work into salons at San Francisco and Philadelphia. She joined the Salon Club (which opposed the Photo-Secessionists) and was involved in the organization of the Federation of American Photographic Societies in 1904. ~http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/

Sarah Hall Ladd joined the Oregon Camera Club in September 1899, and, by early 1901, a number of her works were on exhibition in San Francisco. In 1903, leading New York photographer Alfred Stieglitz formed Photo-Secession, a group of elite American photographers that never numbered more than 105 members, and both Sarah Hall Ladd and Lily White were included among the select membership. ~The Oregon History Project

Farnsworth’s pictures were reproduced most frequently during the 1890s. They appeared in the American Amateur Photographer…Photographic Times…and Sun and Shade…They were included in two deluxe portfolios of photogravures, issued on the occasion of Berlin’s annual International Exhibition of Amateur Photography in 1896 and 1897. Two years later, the Camera Club of New York also featured one of her gravures in its portfolio American Pictorial Photography I. ~Luminous-Lint

Sarah Sears was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into a prominent Boston family. Trained as a painter, she received prizes for her watercolors…She began taking photographs in the 1890s, and pursued a photographic career between 1900 and 1909. ~icp.org

In July 1902, Camera Notes, the periodical [Alfred Stieglitz] edited, ran a photogravure of her image Charcoal Effect…Stieglitz invited Devens to become a member of his elite group, the Photo-Secession, and included her work in its first show at New York’s National Arts Club in 1902. ~Luminous-Lint