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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 22495, member: 44"]>I can't seem to find any of her work for sale or sold anywhere?<</p><p><br /></p><p>Mikey, I haven't any help on the above. I could only find prints and posters of her work - no originals. I would venture to guess this photo may have been taken for, exhibited in, the Humboldt County, California exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco of 1915. The Humboldt County exhibited at the exposition was intended to feature the landscape, beauty, of that corner of California specifically the massive redwood forests of their area. Freeman was of Eureka, the county seat of Humboldt Co. She did contribute Native American portraits to that Exposition and because she was of Eureka I would not be surprised if not this photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Emma's contribution to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition received wide acclaim at the time, ..."</p><p><br /></p><p>Humboldt County's exhibit was displayed in rooms made of redwood with redwood furniture, redwood framed paintings and pictures, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Humboldt County's display was unique in that it had brought to the Exposition two great sections of a giant redwood tree. These sections were made into rooms, one of which housed the display of redwood. Here were hung the beautiful paintings picturing the famous forests of Humboldt. The ceiling of the room, which was twenty feet in diameter, was made of polished, hand-carved redwood. In the center was suspended a crystal candelabra which reflected its light upon the highly polished surface of the wood furnishings.</i></p><p><i>Paintings were framed in redwood burl.... Every article made of burl was highly polished and is most artistic. In the center of the room stood one of the most noteworthy and costly tables in the Exposition. This is made of a single slab of redwood burl, is seven feet in diameter, without a flaw... </i></p><p><br /></p><p>The Panama-Pacific Exhibition is first mentioned between 1/2 and 2/3rds of the way down the page. The paragraph starts with the sentence:</p><p><br /></p><p>"Questions regarding the status of the fine arts go quite beyond the depiction of women." </p><p><br /></p><p>"Emma's contribution..." is in the last paragraph:</p><p><a href="http://www.cla.purdue.edu/waaw/Palmquist/Photographers/FreemanEssay2.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cla.purdue.edu/waaw/Palmquist/Photographers/FreemanEssay2.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.cla.purdue.edu/waaw/Palmquist/Photographers/FreemanEssay2.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Native American portraits to that exposition and living in Eureka 2nd and 3rd paragraphs:</p><p><a href="http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=2685&" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=2685&" rel="nofollow">http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=2685&</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 22495, member: 44"]>I can't seem to find any of her work for sale or sold anywhere?< Mikey, I haven't any help on the above. I could only find prints and posters of her work - no originals. I would venture to guess this photo may have been taken for, exhibited in, the Humboldt County, California exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco of 1915. The Humboldt County exhibited at the exposition was intended to feature the landscape, beauty, of that corner of California specifically the massive redwood forests of their area. Freeman was of Eureka, the county seat of Humboldt Co. She did contribute Native American portraits to that Exposition and because she was of Eureka I would not be surprised if not this photo. "Emma's contribution to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition received wide acclaim at the time, ..." Humboldt County's exhibit was displayed in rooms made of redwood with redwood furniture, redwood framed paintings and pictures, etc. [I]Humboldt County's display was unique in that it had brought to the Exposition two great sections of a giant redwood tree. These sections were made into rooms, one of which housed the display of redwood. Here were hung the beautiful paintings picturing the famous forests of Humboldt. The ceiling of the room, which was twenty feet in diameter, was made of polished, hand-carved redwood. In the center was suspended a crystal candelabra which reflected its light upon the highly polished surface of the wood furnishings. Paintings were framed in redwood burl.... Every article made of burl was highly polished and is most artistic. In the center of the room stood one of the most noteworthy and costly tables in the Exposition. This is made of a single slab of redwood burl, is seven feet in diameter, without a flaw... [/I] The Panama-Pacific Exhibition is first mentioned between 1/2 and 2/3rds of the way down the page. The paragraph starts with the sentence: "Questions regarding the status of the fine arts go quite beyond the depiction of women." "Emma's contribution..." is in the last paragraph: [url]http://www.cla.purdue.edu/waaw/Palmquist/Photographers/FreemanEssay2.htm[/url] Native American portraits to that exposition and living in Eureka 2nd and 3rd paragraphs: [url]http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=2685&[/url] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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