Tag Archives: Pickett family

Women in Georgia Photography, the 2022 Gold

March 28, 2022 · by · in Documentary photography, photo-history, photographers · 7 Comments

In time for Women’s History Month in 2021, I counted 275 women among the photographers included in my database. Now, during the same month 2022, I count 283 women in my database, but as I revisited the collections of 1900 and 1910 census records I gathered for “photographers, Georgia,” it seems I’m prospecting for gold! […]

A Little R&R: Readers and Research, Women Photographers, part 2

March 13, 2018 · by · in photographers, Research · 3 Comments

March is Women’s History Month, but I did not even think about that as I finally prepared to post this second part of Readers and Research, Women Photographers. Part 1 was posted on 26 September, and that seems so long ago! I wrote a little about the Americus, Georgia photographer, Miss A. L. Pickett in two previous […]

Friday Faces – Siblings in the Photographer’s Studio

January 10, 2014 · by · in photo-history, photographers · 16 Comments

 Unidentified girl and little brother, carte de visite by J. W. Perkins, Augusta, Ga., ca. 1868; author’s collection [Click any image to enlarge] I thought it was time to show you more Georgia portraits by various photographers. The following are only some of the cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and other card photos from my collection […]