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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
The mystery photo I want to share with you today is one I purchased from someone who thought it was a Savannah “4-H” group band. I do not believe it has anything to do with that organization, but there is definitely a “4” on those uniforms, and there is at least one musical instrument evident, […]
George S. Cook was, as they say in the South, “a travlin’ man,” and he covered quite a lot of territory in west central Georgia in 1848 and 1849. In this post, my third and last on him, I give some description of his six week stay in Milledgeville, and his following visit to LaGrange, […]
It’s Father’s Day, and because my father (who was both my friend and my mentor throughout my career) and his work on Atlanta’s bygone photographers — in particular his ongoing lists of African Americans and women working in photography — inspired me to seek out more information on all of Georgia’s forgotten photographers, I have […]
This is my second post on George S. Cook’s work in Georgia. In the first post I discussed his work in Columbus, Georgia in 1848 and 1849, and his return there for a short time in 1850. Because I covered other data in that post, as well as gave some links to his biographical information, […]
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