Louise Rosskam, formerly Louise Rosenbaum, was born in Philadelphia, PA, on March 27, 1910.  The youngest of eight children, Louise graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Biology.  She met Edwin Rosskam, an aspiring photographer, in 1929, and began learning about photography.  Ultimately, they married and became a well-known photographic team.  The two worked together for the Farm Security Administration and Standard Oil, documenting life during the depression. One of their more interesting projects took them on a trip down the Mississippi, living on a riverboat while photographing the daily life of the riverboat crews.  The culmination of this project was the book Towboat River, a “collaboration between the authors and the people of the river.”  After their work with Standard Oil, Louise and Ed moved to Puerto Rico, where they worked with the government to develop public information projects for poor families living in the mountainous regions.  Some of Louise’s most moving photographs were taken during the time she lived in Puerto Rico.  Many of the Rosskam’s photographs can now be viewed in the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress.