She was commissioned by Louisville artist and art patron Eleanor Belknap Humphrey to create an autochrome diascope of her two oldest children .
In the early 1900s Ethel Standiford - Mehlingan was an experimental photographer and artist and owner of the Standiford Studio in Louisville , Kentucky .
Ethel Standiford - Mehlingan was commissioned by Louisville artist and art patron Eleanor Belknap Humphrey to create an autochrome diascope of Ethel Standiford - Mehlingan 's two oldest children .
In the early 1900s Ethel Standiford - Mehlingan was an experimental photographer and artist and owner of the Standiford Studio in Louisville , Kentucky .