Lot 263: Little Home o' Dreams by Jessie Tarbox Beals

Little Home o' Dreams by Jessie Tarbox BealsVintage silver gelatin print titled in ink Little Home o' Dreams and stamped Jessie Tarbox Beals / Hotel Allerton / Chicago, ILL. on verso; 4.75 x 6.5 in.

Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942) initially worked as a teacher in Massachusetts, but purchased her first camera in 1888 and began taking and developing pictures as a hobby. In 1897, she married Alfred Tennyson Beals, and by 1900, she left teaching and pursued photography as a full time career with her husband as her assistant. Beals started as a traveling photographer, but she was eventually hired by the Buffalo Inquirer as a staff photographer in 1902. She is considered one of the first women to hold this particular position on a U.S. paper. By 1904, Beals moved to St. Louis to take pictures of the World's Fair, and she eventually became the only official female photographer for the exhibition. Following this experience, Beals moved to New York and opened her own studio. Throughout the remainder of her career, she took a variety of photographs, including portraits of famous figures such as President Theodore Roosevelt.

Small horizontal tear along upper and lower left side and upper and lower right side of photograph; small piece of tape attached to each corner on the back of the photograph.