Virtual Event: Early Women Artisan Photographers in Middletown and Beyond

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH LECTURE SERIES:

LEE MCINTYRE, PHD

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Dr. Lee McIntyre is an independent historian living in Manchester, CT. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. McIntyre has given lectures on the social history of photography to international audiences at academic conferences, universities, museums, libraries and other public venues.

Her current project, Photographs, Pistols & Parasols (website: p3photographers.net) looks at the social history of early women artisan photographers, exploring the lives of women who owned and ran photography studios between 1840-1930. The project celebrates the too-often overlooked achievements of women artisan photographers from the U.S. and Canada, women who were both early photographers and early photographic entrepreneurs.

Dr. Lee McIntyre will bring the lives of some of these women into focus in her talk, Early Women Artisan Photographers from Middletown and Beyond. The talk will include several late-19th-century women who operated photography studios in Middletown. Join us to learn their fascinating stories and to see gems from the Middlesex County Historical Society’s photo archives, taken by these women and their peers.