Emma B. Freeman | |
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 Self-portrait, c. 1913 | |
| Born | Emma Belle Richart January 1880 Nebraska, U.S. |
| Died | March 1928 San Francisco, California |
| Movement | Pictorialism |
Emma Belle Freeman (1880–1928) was an American photographer based in northern California. Her portraits of Native American subjects from the 1910s were widely published and exhibited at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915. She created landscape photography and was a commercial photographer, creating soft-focused and artistic pictorialist images that she often retouched and hand-colored. Her photographs of the rescue of the crew of the grounded USS Milwaukee in Humboldt Bay led to her being appointed an official United States Navy photographer. Her 1915 divorce was the subject of a scandal when it was alleged that there had been misconduct during a train trip she took from Eureka to San Francisco with Illinois Governor Richard Yates Jr.