SI Neg. 2004-57781. Date: na...Gum-bichromate: "Zitkala-Sa" holding a violin ..Credit: Gertrude Kasebier (Smithsonian Institution)

Gertrude Stanton was born 18 May 1852 in Fort Des Moines, grew up as a child in the wild west plains of Iowa and Colorado until enrolling in the Moravian College for Women in Bethlehem, PA. After moving with her mother to Brooklyn NY, at the age of 22 in...