Added on July 26, 2023 Historical essay “Better…at the Bottom of the Sea”?: Affect, Agency, and the Archive at Holloway Sanatorium In August 1889, an English woman named Charlotte S. experienced a depressive episode marked by religious delusions. Convinced there “was […]
Added on August 19, 2020 Historical essay Woman in Focus: Jessie Tarbox Beals Had she never laid her eyes on a camera, Jessie Tarbox Beals might have made a life as a teacher. […]
Added on August 16, 2018 Historical essay When Legs and Arms Won: The Culture of Dissection and the Role of the Camera at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania In Fall 1906, three weeks into their freshman year, Elizabeth Cisney-Smith and her classmates were, as she wrote, “initiated” to […]