During the early to mid-1900s, the Jones Sisters of Sykesville, MD found success in hand-coloring photographs of local sites and scenes. While Ida Jones attended The Maryland Institue College of Art, Elsie, the youngest of the three sisters, often took the lead in photography and art and did the majority of the painting. Regardless, the sisters considered each of the pieces to be the product of equal group effort and shared the credit. Often referred to as the ‘chauffeur’ by Elsie, Ida took the lead on transportation, photo development, and helped with the photography. Fannie, endearingly called the ‘nursemaid’ by Elsie, took care of the sisters during photography trips and wrote brief histories for some of the works. Elsie derived great joy from both taking and painting photographs by hand without any reliance on mass-produced techniques. Inspired by her love of history, she focused on places in Maryland as the subject of the photographs. For instance, one of the most famous collections, The Husker Works, pictured workers farming one of Fairhaven Farm’s several fields located at the intersection of 26 and 32. From the 1930s to 1950s, the sisters’ work gained popularity as wedding and birthday gifts. From 1954 to 1964, supported by strong local patronage, the sisters sold hand-painted photography at the Sunnie Holme Studio on Main Street. Along with hand-colored photographs, the sisters sold needlework, Christmas cards, and gave community talks on some photographs at the studio. Later in the sisters’ careers, they began to do still lifes with flower arrangements picked from their garden and received commissions to do a handful of portrait photos. Despite a primarily local influence, the sisters left a mark on the community with beautiful artwork and “‘Spurred’ women's liberation movement in South Carroll district”. A tightly knit trio, the Jones Sisters of Sykesville, MD never married and focused on art.