[1] By 1906 the Goodlander sisters were working together as professional photographers,[2] and they took over their father's studio when he retired.

[4] They also held an exhibit of German photography in Muncie, in 1911, featuring work by Minya Diez-Dührkoop.

[5] Maybelle Goodlander was elected president of the Women's Federation of the Photographers' Association of America in 1915.

[1][6] She attended national meetings of the Photographers' Association of America in Milwaukee (1910), St. Paul (1911), Detroit (1912), Kansas City, Missouri (1913), Atlanta (1914), and Indianapolis (1915).

[12] She spoke about photography at the national convention of Business and Professional Women's Clubs in Oakland, California in 1927.