One such woman photographer was Eunice N. Lockwood. Eunice had been working with her husband, a well‐known photographer, named Prof. William M. Lockwood of Ripon, Wisconsin. Eunice had worked for her husband in his studio for many years when in 1883, Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood did the unthinkable. They got a divorce. Mrs. Lockwood established her own studio and specialized in portraits of children, an appropriate undertaking for a woman alone. The photographic community was at a loss as to how to handle the divorce of two prominent photographers, as demonstrated in the following notice in The Photographic Times of 1883:
A Dissolution of partnership of a nature previously unknown in the photographic world has been brought under our notice. The well‐known photographic author and artist, Mrs. E. N. Lockwood, announces to us and her patrons of the past twenty‐@ive years that having been, by mutual consent, divorced from her husband, Wm. M. Lockwood, she will remain in the photographic business in Ripon, Wis., and will erect a gallery in the early spring. Her studio is at present at her mother's residence. There being no precedent to establish a code of etiquette, we are at a loss whether we ought to offer our condolence or congratulations to our brother and sister, but will venture upon the latter. ~ The Photographic Times ~ 1883