Tag: Maine

• Beatrice Baxter Ruyl

  

  Beatrice Baxter Ruyl was a progressive, well-educated woman who came of age at the turn of the 20th century. She worked as an illustrator and author, focusing on depictions of the Zuni Pueblo, but she is best recognized as the subject of breastfeeding photography by Gertrude Kasebier in the early 1900’s.

  Aradia Wyndham

  December 9, 2019

  Babies

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