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Jeweler-Photographers, Photographer-Jewelers & a Dentist or Two
Abolitionist button, Daguerreotype by an unidentified photographer, 1850s. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2005; Accession Number: 2005.100.78 In the early days of the “art of photography” in this country, jewelers and photographers often worked together, either sharing studio space or trading or selling one another supplies and silver. It was not […]
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 […]
Friday Faces & Places: George S. Cook in Georgia – Columbus
Almost a decade ago, in 2004, I spent two days carefully going through the George S. Cook Papers (mss. 10108) located in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington D.C. That small collection consists of some business correspondence and some account books. The Cook account books are quite enlightening about Cook’s travels and photography in […]
Hunting and Gathering 
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