Forgotten Pictures of Jessie Tarbox Beals

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The years between the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and World War I were a period of dramatic change in the United States. People were eager to understand what was happening around them. Suddenly the world seemed much bigger. The United States had conquered the West and extended its territory to the Philippines. Strangers from Eastern Europe and from Asia were pouring in, bringing totally new cultures with them. In this paper I focus on Jessie Tarbox Beals, the "first woman news photographer", as her biographer, Alexander Alland called her. She brought vital information to a public seeking to comprehend the changes swirling in its midst. Her career, however, was forgotten for a very long time. While her subject matter highlighted the inequities of the new era, she was not able to produce one collective image of America. Yet it is the very range of the subjects that marks her as a first.rate photographer, a witness to the breadth and diverse complexity of an era. Through Beal's experiences as a photographer, her connections with people at Byrdcliffe, the Lower East Side to Greenwich Village, I would like to show how the course of a pioneer photographer helped us understand the nature of the United States.
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