Gertrude K%C3%A4sebier
Gertrude Ksebier was one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century. She was known for her evocative images of motherhood, her powerful portraits of Native Americans and her promotion of photography as a career for women.
Ksebier was born Gertrude Stanton onMay 1852 in Fort Des Moines . Her father, John W. Stanton, transported a saw mill to Golden, Colorado at the start of the Pikes Peak Gold Rush of 1859, and he prospered from the building boom that followed. In 1860 eightyearold Stanton traveled with her mother and younger brother to join her father in Colorado. That same year her father was elected the first mayor of Golden, which was then the capital of the Colorado Territory.
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