Floride Green | |
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![]() Drawing of Floride Green, 1896 | |
Born | 1863 Alabama, US |
Died | October 24, 1936
![]() San Francisco ![]() |
Occupation |
Photographer
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Floride Green (1863 – October 24, 1936) was an American photographer.
Floride Green was born in either Eutaw, Alabama, [1] or Mobile in 1863 to Rebecca (Pickens) and Duff Green. [2] [3] Her family moved to Stockton, California, in 1872, after the South lost the American Civil War, and Floride was educated in California. [3] [4] She graduated from a normal school in 1883 and began working as a teacher. [2] While teaching school in San Francisco, she took up amateur photography. [4] According to a history of Alabama photography, however, she took her first photographs on a visit to Alabama to see family. [2] Green met Lillie Hitchcock Coit in high school in St. Helena, California, and later published a book about Coit titled Some Personal Recollections of Lillie Hitchcock Coit. [3]
Green came to New York around 1897, where she started a photography business with a studio at 28 West 30th Street, Manhattan. [4] She specialized in photographs taken inside her subjects' homes, which required special attention to light. [4] Before taking photographs of children at their homes, she would make a preliminary visit to determine the best time of day to take their portrait. [5] Reportedly, her photographs of Black people in the South were transferred to slides and shown in Europe. [4] Her work was also shown at a 1900 exhibit of women's photography at the Exposition Universelle. [2]
She died on October 24, 1936, at the Dante Sanitarium in San Francisco. [3] [6]
Floride Green | |
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![]() Drawing of Floride Green, 1896 | |
Born | 1863 Alabama, US |
Died | October 24, 1936
![]() San Francisco ![]() |
Occupation |
Photographer
![]() |
Floride Green (1863 – October 24, 1936) was an American photographer.
Floride Green was born in either Eutaw, Alabama, [1] or Mobile in 1863 to Rebecca (Pickens) and Duff Green. [2] [3] Her family moved to Stockton, California, in 1872, after the South lost the American Civil War, and Floride was educated in California. [3] [4] She graduated from a normal school in 1883 and began working as a teacher. [2] While teaching school in San Francisco, she took up amateur photography. [4] According to a history of Alabama photography, however, she took her first photographs on a visit to Alabama to see family. [2] Green met Lillie Hitchcock Coit in high school in St. Helena, California, and later published a book about Coit titled Some Personal Recollections of Lillie Hitchcock Coit. [3]
Green came to New York around 1897, where she started a photography business with a studio at 28 West 30th Street, Manhattan. [4] She specialized in photographs taken inside her subjects' homes, which required special attention to light. [4] Before taking photographs of children at their homes, she would make a preliminary visit to determine the best time of day to take their portrait. [5] Reportedly, her photographs of Black people in the South were transferred to slides and shown in Europe. [4] Her work was also shown at a 1900 exhibit of women's photography at the Exposition Universelle. [2]
She died on October 24, 1936, at the Dante Sanitarium in San Francisco. [3] [6]