Using a new Graflex camera with a nine-inch Goerz lens, which she bought in 1905 for the princely sum of $225.50, Evelyn worked on commission for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, making the harsh land of eastern Montana look seductive to homesteaders.
~Encyclopedia of the Great Plains

In 1902 she was elected to membership in the Linked Ring, an important London-based organization that promoted pictorialism, which emphasized artistic as opposed to purely documentary photography. The following year she helped found the Photo-Secession…in 1905 Alfred Stieglitz exhibited her work at his influential New York Gallery, 291.
~National Museum of Women in the Arts

It is not known when she met Stieglitz, but it is clear he knew of and admired her work by 1902 when he included two of her works in the inaugural exhibition at his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York City. This relationship continued for many years as in 1906, Boughton was appointed by Stieglitz as a Fellow of the Photo-Secession. ~Wikipedia

By 1914, Johnson had won over 30 gold and silver medals in various photographic competitions. She was a member of the Missouri delegation at the PAA’s Milwaukee convention in 1920, and three of her photos were displayed at the PAA’S 1930 convention. ~Wikipedia

Murdoch decided to embark on a round the world tour, notably the first woman photographer to make such a journey, photographing on both autochrome plates and black and white negatives.
~Luminous-Lint

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