She was probably the engraver (or the person who prepared photos to be engraved) at the Sporting News or whatever newspaper these were originally the property of. They would reverse the images for engraving before the technology of using photographs in newspapers became common. You would reverse them, then trace them with pencil to leave an outline, then that image taken off the reverse could be artistically added to the paper to show up the right way (like a mirroring effect). Just a hunch on who she was.
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