Works:  Bully of Burke and Nellie Stockbridge Mystery

Name: Nellie Stockbridge
Born: 1868, Illinois.
Died: May 22, 1965, Wallace, ID.

In 1898, at age 30, Nellie Stockbridge left her home in Illinois to work with Thomas Barnard at his Wallace, Idaho photography studio.

A year after her arrival the area exploded — April 1899 Coeur d’Alene Mining Insurrection — which she and Barnard documented.

Over the next decades, working often to exhaustion, Nellie photographed the people and places of one of the richest mining areas of the world, the Coeur d’Alene Mining District.

While portrait photography was the mainstay of her studio, Nellie skillfully photographed the area’s mining industries, both above ground and below, creating a visual record of historical significance to Idaho and beyond.

Resources:

Mining Town: The Photographic Record of T.N. Barnard and Nellie Stockbridge from the Coeur d’Alenes by Patricia Hart and Ivar Nelson

Idaho’s Women of Influence, Accessed 8/20/2021 https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/iwi/women/iwi-11.html