Adelaide Hanscom Leeson
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Adelaide Hanscom Leeson was an early 20th-century artist and photographer who published some of the first books using photography to illustrate literary works.
Adelaide Hanscom ca. 1906
The Eternal Saki, by Adelaide Hanscom. Published in The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1905.
Did the Hand then of the Potter shake?
Emblem of the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, designed by Adelaide Hanscom, 1907
Laura Adams Armer
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Laura Adams Armer was an American artist and writer. In 1932, her novel Waterless Mountain won the Newbery Medal. She was also an early photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Adelaide Hanscom Leeson
…believing it to be unimportant. In tandem with her formal education she studied photography in private with her former classmates Emily Pitchford and Laura Adams Armer, who had recently established their own photographic studio. She also is known to have frequented the home of photographer Anne Brigman and is thought…
Armer at the California School of Design c. 1895
A man with a queue, photographed in Chinatown by Armer.