Elizabeth Flint Wade (1849–1915) was an early 20th-century American author, poet and pictorial photographer. She is best known for the photographs she exhibited with Rose Clark under their joint names, either as "Rose Clark and Elizabeth Flint Wade" or as "Misses Clark and Wade".[1][2][3][4][5]

Elizabeth Flint Wade
Born
Elizabeth Flint

(1849-10-29)October 29, 1849
Cassville, New York
DiedDecember 1, 1915(1915-12-01) (aged 66)
Norwalk, Connecticut
NationalityAmerican
Known forPhotography
Spouse
Frank Abernathy Wade
(m. 1869)
"Miss M., of Washington", by Rose Clark and Elizabeth Flint Wade. Photogravure published in Camera Notes, Vol 4 No 4, 1901

Life

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Wade was born in Cassville, New York, on 29 October 1849.[6][7] Her parents were George Barnett Flint and Elizabeth Tracy Avery.

She married Frank Abernathy Wade (1836 or 1837-1906) on 24 November 1869 in Buffalo. They had one daughter, Blanche Elizabeth (1872-?),[8] and two sons, Frank (1874-?) and Herman (1877-?).

Wade’s interest in photography developed sometime before 1890. In 1893 she wrote an article called "Artistic Pictures, Suggestions on How to Make Them" in American Amateur Photographer. In the late 1890s she was put in charge of Harpers magazine Round Table Camera Club, and in 1900 Harpers Bazaar began publishing a series of her articles on photography.[9]

In 1906 Wade was listed in an article in Photo-Era as "among those in the professional ranks achieving success". Other women mentioned were Gertrude Käsebier, Eva Watson-Schütze and Jessie Tarbox Beals.[9]

Wade was a respected writer and poet, and her stories and poems appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Collier's Weekly, Black Cat, Herald, New York World, The Catholic Telegraph,[10][11] and Everybody's.[12][13] She also frequently wrote about photography in magazine such as the American Amateur Photographer, Photo-Era,[14] Photographic Times, Photo-American and Harpers Magazine.[15] From 1910 to 1912 she was associate editor of Photo-Era, and she critiqued many prints submitted by readers.[16]

Wade died in her home Norwalk, Connecticut, on 1 December 1915.[17]

References

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  1. ^ Dyer, William B. (1900). "The Chicago Salon". Brush and Pencil. 6 (2): 54. doi:10.2307/25505542. ISSN 1932-7080. JSTOR 25505542.
  2. ^ Burnside, Maud (1900). "Artistic Photography in Portraiture". Brush and Pencil. 6 (3): 122–127. doi:10.2307/25505554. ISSN 1932-7080. JSTOR 25505554.
  3. ^ MacKenzie, Allan C. (1901). "American Pictorial Photography at Glasgow". Brush and Pencil. 8 (3): 176. doi:10.2307/25505653. ISSN 1932-7080. JSTOR 25505653.
  4. ^ Catalogue of an Exhibition of Salon Photographs: December 1st to December 30th, 1903. Philadelphia: Photographic Society of Philadelphia. 1903. p. 4 – via HathiTrust.
  5. ^ "Artist Info - Elizabeth Flint Wade". National Gallery of Art. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Elizabeth Flint Wade". The Magazine of Poetry. 6: 42. January–October 1894.
  7. ^ "FamilySearch Genealogy Record for Elizabeth Flint, New York". FamilySearch. Archived from the original on 2008-12-12. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
  8. ^ "Writer's of the Day". The Writer. XIV (5): 74. May 1901 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ a b Bannon, Anthony (1981). The Photo-Pictorialists of Buffalo. Buffalo: Media Study. p. 90, 99. ISBN 0-941558-00-2.
  10. ^ Wade, Elizabeth Flint (4 May 1905). "A Visiting Rainbow". The Catholic Telegraph. LXXIV (18): 7. JSTOR community.32159100.
  11. ^ Wade, Elizabeth Flint (20 September 1906). "The Traveling Garden". The Catholic Telegraph. LXXV (38): 7. JSTOR community.32159171.
  12. ^ "January Magazines - Everybody's Magazine". The American Stationer. 54 (1): 42. 4 July 1903 – via Google Books.
  13. ^ "[Eight special articles, each of actual importance to the American reading public...]". Hopkinsville Kentuckian. 25 October 1906. p. 4. Retrieved 16 December 2011 – via Chronicling America - Library of Congress.
  14. ^ Wade, Elizabeth Flint (January 1908). "The Round Robin Guild". Photo-Era - the American Journal of Photography. XX (1): 43–49 – via HathiTrust.
  15. ^ Wade, Elizabeth Flint (21 January 1896). "The Buffalo Doll Show". Harper's Round Table. XVII (847): 280 – via Project Gutenberg.
  16. ^ "[Table of Contents]". Photo-Era - the American Journal of Photography. XXII (1). American Federation of Photographic Societies: [1]. January 1909 – via Internet Archive.
  17. ^ "Obituaries - Mrs. Elizabeth Flint Wade". New York Tribune. 3 December 1915. p. 9. Retrieved 16 December 2011 – via Chronicling America - Library of Congress. Norwalk, Conn., Dec. 2. Mrs. Elizabeth Flint Wade: well known as a magazine writer, died at her home here last night at an advanced age. She was associated editorially with "Harper's magazine" and with "The Photo Era," of Boston [...]