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Category: Women’s History

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Alice Rohe: Pioneering Woman Photojournalist

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

Start with a solid upbringing as the daughter of an artist father in late 19th-century Kansas; add a college education at a time when women were generally not college-bound; combine a heaping helping of five years in turn-of-the-century New York City with a dash of women’s rights. Then, fold in recovery in a Colorado sanitorium …