Ada Wills Garside

By 1897, Garside had taken up photography and worked as a professional photographer. After moving to Oklahoma, she became one of the first photographers in the territory alongside other pioneers such as Emma Alfreda White Coleman and Annette Ross Hume. Her photography business was one of the most complete in the territory, offering a dozen photos from 25 cents to $12 and even offering Kodak camera rentals. During her career, she photographed Native Americans, the Chilocco Indian School, and the Solar eclipse of May 28, 1900.^[1]

Garside's husband, Henry, died on October 7, 1928.^[2] Later in life she was a Sunday School teacher in Newkirk. Garside died on March 7, 1950, in Newkirk, Oklahoma where she was buried.^[1]