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Photographer-Father William A. Kuhns
August Wilhelm Kühns arrived in the port of New Orleans, United States, on November 17, 1849 on the ship Captain Tom, which had departed from Hamburg, Germany [Prussia]. This was a relatively new brig (two-masted sailing ship) first launched in 1845, and used for transporting immigrants. Born in September 1824, in the town of Hohennauen, […]
The Kuhns Family of Photographers
In the next several months I’ll be posting on the members of the Kuhns family of photographers who worked in Atlanta, and elsewhere. I plan to first highlight the patriarch of that family, William A. (Augustus) Kuhns (1824 – 1905). Additional posts will feature his son Julius H. (Henry) Kuhns (1852-1921), his son W. T. […]
Sisters, Sisters, Plus a Brother
For Women’s History Month this year I will tell you about three of the many photographers in our state outside of Atlanta who worked with a sibling. Two of the three were photographer sisters, and the other, a sister and brother photographers. In the following paragraphs, these pairs are in alphabetical, not chronological order, but […]
A family mix [up] of photographers
The members of the McAllister family who came to Georgia did not remain here, but they certainly made an interesting mark on the state. Julius Stillman McAllister was a dentist and photographer born in Lincoln, Vermont in 1841. It appears that while still serving in the New York Infantry, he married his first wife, Naremeta […]
T. J. Bowers, a Georgia Itinerant and his associates
I have written about Thomas Jefferson Bowers (1839 -1894) before, in my post about Veteran Photographers, but I will expand upon that information. According to his 1890 pension application, he was a captain in company C, 1st Georgia regiment, Frank’s Brigade. In that document he describes how he became deaf, stating that when he was […]
The Misses Mead, a 40 Year Career in “the ideal profession for a woman”
This month I would like to introduce you to two women who had a long career as photographers. Many Georgia photographers chose to work with their siblings, including brothers and their sisters, and women and their sisters. But overall, in the business of photography in Atlanta, few had as lengthy a career as The Misses […]
A.T. Lyon and the short-lived Partnership of Gray & Lyon
Photographer A. T. Lyon (Albert T. Lyon), was born in Edgefield, South Carolina, in about 1837 – he was thirteen on the 1850 census, so I believe the 1840 date on his grave must be incorrect. He died on September 13, 1897 in Lumpkin (Stewart County), Georgia, and is buried there in the East Side […]
Educating Women Photographers and Their Associates
As early as 1863 the employment of women as photographers was included in a wonderful work called The Employments of Women: a Cylocpaedia of Woman’s Work (Boston: Walker, Wise & Co., 1863). It was compiled by a woman named Virginia Penny, who was a southerner, born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 18, 1826. This publication […]
Georgia Photographers on Skates!
It seems like a funny thought, doesn’t it? Skating photographers? Well, it seems to have happened. And I don’t think they got them for Christmas, as we did when I was a child! Although ice skates had been around northern Europe for centuries, and the first patent for a rolling “skate” was taken out in […]
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