Timeline

1895

Born in Hoboken, NJ

1914 - 1917

Attended the New York Training School for Teachers

1919

Moved to San Francisco and established her own studio

1920 - 1930

Worked as a portrait photographer, usually for San Francisco's upper class

1932

Began shooting San Francisco's urban unemployed and labor unrest

1935

Became a staff photographer at the Federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later renamed the Farm Security Administration (FSA)

1940 - 1945

During WWII, photographed the internment of Japanese Americans for the War Relocation Authority, and the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, California, for the Office of War Information

1940

Was hired by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics as the photographer for a series of community studies in California and Arizona

1952

Co-founded the photographic magazine Aperture

1965

Died in San Francisco, CA