“We were taking bridal party portraits on the Ballard Avenue, which is a quaint little street in Seattle,” Cristalli says. “The wedding was at Hotel Ballard right down the street. We noticed this ...

In her classic 1912 memoir of immigration to the United States, “The Promised Land,” Mary Antin notes: “A long girlhood, a free choice in marriage, and a brimful of womanhood are the precious rights ...