Early 20th Century Art Photography Collection, approximately 1910s-1920s

Fred Davis was a pictorialist photographer from San Francisco, California who exhibited in the Frederick & Nelson Salon of Pictorialist Photography in 1925.

Francis P. Griffiths was the son of Judge Austin E. Griffiths and Ella Margaret. Francis received his BA degree from the University of Washington June 12, 1927. He was a pictorialist photographer and may have known some of the members of the Seattle Camera Club. By October 27, 1928 he was teaching at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was a Research Assistant in Horticultural Manufacturing until 1929.

Caroline Haskins Gurrey (1875-1927) was born in Oakland, California in 1875. She operated a photographic studio with her husband in Honolulu, Hawaii that specialized in portrait photography in the Pictorialist style. Most notably her photographs of mixed-race Hawaiian children were selected to be exhibited at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in 1909. The exhibit was held in the Hawaii Building at the AYPE and was part of the Ethnology exhibit which displayed not only Gurrey's photographs but a collection of artifacts, such as Hawaiian clothing and utensils. Gurrey also documented life in contemporary Hawaii and prominent Hawaiian elite. Her Pictorialist style of working includes the use of a soft focus and grainy texture. Gurrey died in Hawaii in 1927.

Margaret Wilhelma Donnelly was born in 1882 to Margaret and John Donnelly in Lebanon, Missouri. She married Joseph Taylor Hazard in 1909. Margaret joined The Mountaineers in 1912, and she and her husband climbed all the major peaks in Washington. She was a trustee of The Mountaineers, edited the organization's bulletin for 25 years, and was an early telephone volunteer for the Mountain Rescue council. In 1922 she received The Mountaineers Photographic Prize for August Haze on Grindstone Trail. She once described mountain climbing in the 1920s as a sport where "women had to wear skirts until we got out of town . . . then we took them off and carried them on our backs." She died in 1979, donating her body to the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Martin (1886-1960) was active in New York. Martin was one of the founding members of the Pictorial Photographers of America, established Nov. 1921 in New York, and was a member of the Clarence White School. The zenith of the pictorial photography movement was circa 1910-1955.

Martin was the Frick Art Reference Library photographer in New York. The Frick photographers traveled throughout the United States to photograph works of art, while also capturing invaluable information from their owners, whether portrait subjects, family genealogy, and anecdotal history. Selections from this archive are represented in ARTstor with approximately 6,000 images, primarily documenting American and European paintings.

Martin's work is also published in Pictorialism into Modernism: the Clarence H. White School of Photography, edited by Marianne Fulton, with text by Bonnie Yochelson and Kathleen A. Erwin, 1996, p. 83.