Elsa Spear Byron

Photographer, Visual Artist

1896 – 1992

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Who was Elsa Spear Byron?

Elsa Spear Byron was a renowned photographer.

As a young child, she learned to help her mother make photographic prints from a plate camera purchased in 1900. Her photographs were sold all over the country and greatly enlarged prints were used by the railroads to advertise train trips to Wyoming. She lived in Sheridan, Wyoming, in the same house for nearly 70 years until her death in 1992.

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Born
1896
Big Horn
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Wyoming
Died
1992

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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