Before digital popularity and smartphones, here below is a collection of interesting photos from Steve Given that shows women with their vintage cameras in the past.

French photographer and her whole plate tailboard camera, circa 1900s
Lady with a large Kodak folding camera, circa 1910s
A woman in swimsuit holding her Ansco Box camera, circa 1920s
Woman with her Argus A 35mm camera, circa 1930s
Joan Davis, a 20th Century Fox comedy actress, with a Zeiss Ikon folding plate camera on an over𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 tripod during November 1939
A United States Women’s Army Corps Photographer with an Argus (Brick) camera, circa 1940s
A young woman in shorts is using her Kodak Six-16 Brownie Junior camera, circa 1940s
Lady with a Graflex Super D camera, circa early 1940s
Young lady with a Kodak Brownie Special Six-20 camera, circa 1940s
United States Army nurse of 44 Evac. Hospital with her Zeiss Ikonta camera during June 1944
United States Army photographer lass using the sports finder frame of her Graflex camera, circa 1944
While undergoing training, United States military photographers practice with the Graflex camera during May 1944
A beautiful woman holding her Polaroid Highlander camera while smiling, circa 1950s
A young woman holding her Leica 35mm camera, circa 1950s
An obvious eye-catcher touring the Mediterranean with a 35mm Leica camera, circa 1950s
Lady with a Leica, somewhere in England, circa 1950s
Three women with Kodak Brownie box cameras, including a Six-20 Brownie D, a Six-20 Brownie Junior, and a Six-20 Brownie C, circa 1950s
Woman is shooting with a Leica camera, somewhere in England, circa 1950s
Margaret Truman, daughter of the former President, Harry S. Truman, displays her s𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁s with a Graflex camera. She borrowed the camera from pressmen during a function at the Conrad Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, during September 1953
A nice looking ’60s girl shows off her nice looking Rolleiflex Twin Lens Reflex camera
Girl with a Ihagee Exacta 35mm camera at beach, circa 1960s
Maxine Sullivan, of Melbourne, Australia, with a Petri 35mm camera, and a typical teen coiffure during the 1960s
Norma, a normally topless model, with her Nikon F 35mm camera, circa 1960s
Twins, LaVona and LaVelda Rowe who were press photographers for the Chicago Sun-Times Newspaper with their Graflex cameras, February 1961
Roberta Woolley, an English actress visiting Chicago, Illinois in March 1964, sports a 35mm Corfield Periflex camera and a Weston Master light meter
Actress Arlean Dahl with an AMP 8mm Sound movie camera during October 1968

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