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Postscript to Part 5, Researching Texas Photographers
A Lady Writing, ca. 1665, by Johannes Vermeer; National Gallery of Art, Gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer & Horasce Havermeyer Jr. in memory of their father Hrace Havermeyer Silly me, I left the University of Texas, Austin out of my sources for Researching Photographers Working in the South – Texas. As I was doing my […]
Tues. Tips – Researching Photographers Working in the South, Part 5 – Texas
The only states remaining for me to discuss in this series on “Researching Photographers in the South” are the four South Central sates of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, and also the state of Mississippi. Today I am going to start with Texas, that western most state, and concentrate only on it. The state of Texas has […]
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 […]
An Account Book & some Gainesville GA Photographers – Friday Faces & Places
NOTE: The following blog was originally posted in 2013, and I am slow with this major update — prior to your reading of this, know that I donated this ledger to the Northeast Georgia History Center. It was used in July 2021 in their exhibit on the N.C. White Studio called The Fadeless Photographer, which […]
Hunting and Gathering 
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