Monthly Archives: January 2014

The Elephant in My Room – Saturday Stats

January 25, 2014 · by · in Amateur photographers, Artists, photo-history, photographers, Research · 3 Comments

A newspaper cut by Earnest S. Wilkinson of the elephant Nemo, renamed Clio, made from a photograph by Kuhns (W.T. and/or J.H.); Aug. 10, 1890 Atlanta Constitution Here are the current statistics for my ongoing, and self-titled, Georgia Photographers Documentation Project. All that Hunting & Gathering for lo these many years surely adds up. Total records = […]

Tuesday Tips – Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes Off-the-Beaten-Path

January 21, 2014 · by · in Artists, Research · 2 Comments

Man Reading a Newspaper, daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr., ca. 1842; J. Paul Getty Museum, Digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program For this Tuesday’s Tips I have listed some newspapers and indexes to newspapers that are available online for free, but are not found in the “usual” free newspaper sites (Digital Library of Georgia or Chronicling America, […]

Friday Faces – Siblings in the Photographer’s Studio

January 10, 2014 · by · in photo-history, photographers · 16 Comments

 Unidentified girl and little brother, carte de visite by J. W. Perkins, Augusta, Ga., ca. 1868; author’s collection [Click any image to enlarge] I thought it was time to show you more Georgia portraits by various photographers. The following are only some of the cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and other card photos from my collection […]