Tag Archives: Georgia
Friday Faces & Places: George S. Cook in Milledgeville & LaGrange GA
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, […]
My Father, and my Early Georgia Photographers, 1841-1861
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 […]
Friday Faces & Places: George S. Cook, Warm Springs & Macon GA
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, […]
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 […]
Monday Miscellany: Mystery & More
I recently came across this short article on page 6 of the Macon (GA) Telegraph for Sunday, Nov. 18, 1883, which was apparently reproduced from a New York newspaper, the World (publishers since 1868 of the World Almanac). A Colored Artist Who Colors. New York Special. The World has discovered here a promising young colored artist, Frank […]
Friday Frights – Some Less than Usual Deaths, and One Close Call
We should be glad that most of us are making digital photographs these days. Several years ago I had my own darkroom, but living in the (then) 20th century, I never once thought that self-processing my own photos would “be the death of me.” On Aug. 31, 1878, The (Wisconsin) Stevens Pt. Daily Journal reported […]
Friday Faces & Places – E. J. Atwood
This will be an ongoing series on occasional Fridays, highlighting some of Georgia’s photographers and their associates for whom I have, or have knowledge of, a portrait of them and/or images of their studio(s). I will include “real” images whenever possible. My Face & Place for today is E. [Eldis] Jay Attwood. E. J. Atwood […]
Why this Blog? What’s the Big Deal?
As a former archivist, special librarian and consultant, I concentrated on visual materials and photographs in particular, for a large part of my career. This blog is my attempt to share my current and past research, and what I call my Georgia Photographers Documentation Project, with as many people as possible. My research includes the itinerants […]
Hunting and Gathering 
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