Woodbridge, Louise Deshong (1848–1925)

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Woodbridge, Louise Deshong (1848–1925)

American photographer. Born in 1848 in Chester, Pennsylvania; died in 1925, possibly in Chester; married Jonathon Edwards Woodbridge, in 1877.

Although she devoted much of her energy to society affairs, Louise Deshong Woodbridge undertook photography in 1884. Nine years later, her photographs, primarily landscapes, were featured in the Sixth Joint Annual Exhibition of Photography in Philadelphia and the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Woodbridge left a collection of her work to the Delaware County Historical Society.

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Rosenblum, Naomi. A History of Women Photographers. NY: Abbeville, 1994.

Mary McNulty , freelance writer, St. Charles, Illinois

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