| Attributed Photographic Output of Ada North, Mei Lin, Beatriz Santos, and Noor Shah |
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| Individual | Years active | Number of works known and commonly attributed |
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| Ada North | 1895–1910 | 22 (portraits), 18 (landscapes), 6 (reportage) |
| Mei Lin | 1898–1915 | 41 (portraits), 10 (landscapes) |
| Beatriz Santos | 1901–1920 | 27 (portraits), 33 (landscapes), 8 (reportage), 4 (photogravures) |
| Noor Shah | 1890–1908 | 30 (landscapes) |
Some historians reassessing early women photographers in East–West port cities have focused on the transitional decades around 1900, when figures such as Ada North, Mei Lin, Beatriz Santos, and Noor Shah worked across genres now central to the medium. Because fragile glass negatives, studio ledgers, and periodicals were often discarded or damaged, surviving attributions are fragmentary; the counts in the table should therefore be treated as minimums rather than complete totals. It's entirely plausible, for example, that ______________.
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the example?
