Monthly Archives: July 2013
Tuesday Tips – Researching Photographers Working in the South part 1
Doing your photo research the easy way. “Shading it with one hand, I carefully compared it to the sleeper”; Illustration for “Carriston’s Gift” by Hugh Conway, 1885 I was recently asked to recommend books and websites for researching photographers working in the southern states in the 19th and early 20th centuries. I decided to compile a list […]
Wednesday Work – A Research Reassessment
Book Spine poem “Women in Photography” by E. Lee Eltzroth After my post of last Friday “A Psychic Photographer, the Mysterious Grace Gray DeLong,” I realized I needed to sit down and think about the results of my recent reexamination of her life, and my earlier determination that she was an African American psychic and […]
A Psychic Photographer, the Mysterious Grace Gray DeLong – Faces & Places Friday
Portrait of Madame DeLong used in her Aug. 1911 “Ask Mme. DeLong” advertisements, Savannah GA This post could easily be a Monday Mystery. My subject of the day is Grace Gray Delong who briefly ran a photography studio in Savannah, Georgia, but spent most of her career working as a psychic. She worked as a psychic […]
Friday Faces – Georgia’s Little Girls
Today, I’m writing a short and not at all deep, post. I thought I would share some of the photos of Georgia’s Little Girls taken by Georgia photographers fom my collection. I have many, and these are only a few. In the coming months, in addition to some more detailed pieces on other things and […]
A Reevaluation – But Mysteries Remain
Book Spine Poem by E. Lee Eltzroth My post today is an information update on two previous posts – first the “mystery” post of June 24th (Are these gents Savannah Irish? —) and second, my recent post of July 1st on Charles J. Warner (Love, Music, Photography & a Scandal in a Little Georgia Town). […]
Love, Music, Photography & Scandal in a Little Georgia Town
One of my favorite anecdotes connected with a Georgia photographer is the one related to the life, and in particular one escapade, of photographer Charles J. Warner of Rome, Georgia. I believe much, but probably not all of what has been reported, is true. And we may never know what truly transpired. Rome was not […]
Hunting and Gathering 
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