Description: Beginning in the 1880s, Frances Allen and her sister Mary Allen began work as photographers after progressive deafness forced them to give up their careers in teaching. Working within the social aesthetic of the Arts and Crafts movement, they took photographs of houses and furnishings and created Colonial Revival pictures by asking their neighbors and friends to dress in period attire. Once praised as “The Foremost Women Photographers in America,” their prints were included in many of the significant early twentieth-century exhibitions and publications but since have been all but lost from view. Photographic image on paper, soft focus image depicts a large white water lily surrounded by several lily pads, the rest of the composition is still water, Condition: the paper is toned, there is evidence on the reverse of glue and adhered paper from being stuck to another piece of paper.
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