Does anybody know or care to guess as to what lens Edward Steichen might have used for his early work?

What lenses were in vogue (no pun intended!) or available during that time? (Edwardian era and WW I). I would presume some sort of pre-anastigmat, perhaps a rapid rectilinear. Photographs of that period were heavily pictorial, of course and it's difficult to my untrained eye to tell where the lens ends and the artistic manipulations begin. But if I can find something similar or possibly have something already in my collection, it would be fun to experiment with.