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Jessie Tarbox Beals Photographs Santa Barbara
By Hattie Beresford   |   January 7, 2025

Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942) became America’s first female news photographer when The Buffalo Inquirer and Courier of New York hired her as a staff photographer in 1902. The road to a career in photography, however, began in 1888 when she won a camera for selling magazine subscriptions. At the time, she was living with her […]