Bull Pen , Kellogg , 1899 eating , looking oddly unconcerned . The mine owners won that round , and soon restored the status quo . Stockbridge also took several photos of the miners at work , under conditions dangerous not only to the photographer but to her equipment .
In 1907 , Barnard sold a quarter interest in his photography business to Stockbridge . He and his wife moved to Spokane and later Los Angeles , where he died in 1916 . Stockbridge ran her photography studio in the spacious new Barnard Building , where she continued to take and process photos for the next 56 years . Flexible film had been available since the 1880s ; she favored rigid glass plates , which she inserted in antique cameras . Although she lived in a region of great natural beauty , she had no interest in glorifying it , like Ansel Adams . She was not a great artistic photographer , like Alfred Stieglitz or Edward Weston , and while she caught great historic events like the Coeur d ’ Alene miners ’ strike and natural disasters
Silver Miners at Work , 1903
like the fire of 1910 and the flood of 1913 , she can ’ t be called a photojournalist . Her bread and butter was conventional studio portraits , crime photos for the police , and pictures of burned-down buildings for insurance companies . She also took photos of all the buildings of Wallace , providing an invaluable historical record , and hundreds of candid shots of the city ’ s ordinary people .
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