Photos taken of her were very popular

“After she had played Lady Babbie in 'The Little Minister' in 1897, more pictures of Maude Adams were being collected and cherished all over the country... Reproductions of these works of art sold like hot cakes and displaced family chromes on the walls of thousands of homes. As late as 1910, when a Bowery gambling joint was raided the police impounded not only the roulette outfit but a Maude Adams photograph. In the same year a visitor to President Taft remarked upon the conspicuous presence of Miss Adam's photograph in the White House.” New York Times Magazine, Jan. 20, 1929