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Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression.
Adrien Broom (born 1980), fashion and fine art photographer specializing in images of young women; Zoe Lowenthal Brown (1927–2022), fine art photography, documentary photographic "visual essays", and portraiture. Esther Bubley (1921–1998), expressive photos of ordinary people, later specializing in children in hospitals and other medical themes
Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, [1] famous for founding the Foursquare Church.
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
While working in a sideshow in 1939, Broadbent challenged the traditional views of beauty for women during the 1930s by participating in a beauty pageant at the 1939 New York World's Fair. [6] Broadbent died in her sleep while living in Florida on March 28, 1983. [7] Betty Broadbent, 4 April 1938
The shift to more female-friendly skies occurred in the 1930s. During this time, women came on board to serve as nurses tasked with keeping passengers safe and tending to those who became airsick ...
In the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt got the country out of the Great Depression by creating jobs under the Works Progress Administration. This included positions in the performing arts.
Vera Elkan (1908–2008), remembered for her images of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War; Phumzile Khanyile (born 1991) Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000), South African's first female World War II correspondent, also known for images of South Africa; Carla Liesching (born 1985), visual artist specialising in photography