“Photos,” in The Professional and Amateur Photographer.

Archibald Beatricia Rue.

“Photos,” in The Professional and Amateur Photographer.

Buffalo, NY:

Professional Photographer Publishing Co.,

July 1902.

Zoe’s family was bent on documenting the world, although only she took up her father’s mantle as a writer. Some relatives became photographers, including her sister Jessie’s husband A. B. Rue, based in Harrodsburg, Zoe’s hometown. His sitters included students at Daughters College, Zoe’s alma mater, in a Neoclassical mansion (see postcard), run by John Augustus Williams (1870s photo by Zoe’s half-brother Clarence Anderson). On this case’s upper shelf are A. B. Rue’s landscape photos. Jessie, a portrait painter, sometimes based artworks on his photos.  

From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.