Floride Green (1863 – October 24, 1936) was an American photographer.

Floride Green
Drawing of Floride Green, 1896
Born1863
Alabama, US
DiedOctober 24, 1936 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 72–73)
San Francisco Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPhotographer Edit this on Wikidata

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]

References

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  1. ^ Hines Jr., Richard (March 1899). "Women and Photography". The American Amateur Photographer. 11 (3): 122.
  2. ^ a b c d Robb, Frances Osborn (2016). Shot in Alabama: A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers. University of Alabama Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-8173-1878-9.
  3. ^ a b c d "Floride Green, 1863–1936". California Historical Society Quarterly. 15 (4): 383–384. December 1936. doi:10.2307/25160676. ISSN 0008-1175. JSTOR 25160676.
  4. ^ a b c d e Dodge, Grace Hoadley (1899). What Women Can Earn: Occupations of Women and Their Compensation. New York: F. A. Stokes Co. pp. 297–299. OCLC 988818374.   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ Rosenblum, Naomi (1994). A History of Women Photographers. Abbeville Publishing Group. p. 84. ISBN 1-55859-761-1. OCLC 29909207.
  6. ^ "S.F. Woman Pioneer Is Taken by Death". San Francisco Examiner. October 26, 1936. p. 7 – via newspapers.com.