Background
Chansonette Stanley Emmons was born in 1858 in Kingfield, Maine, United States.
Chansonette Stanley Emmons was born in 1858 in Kingfield, Maine, United States.
She was educated in Kingfield's one-room school- house and went to Western Maine Normal School in Farmington in 1876.
Emmons was a self-employed photographer from 1898 until her death.
A total listing of her awards is unavailable, but she did win prizes in several Boston-area photography exhibits during her lifetime.
A painter as well as a photographer, she was one of the pioneering women of photography, leaving a matchless record of rural New England at the turn of the century.
She was a member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts and the Society's Guild of Photographers.