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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 […]
Friday Faces – Boys at the Photographer’s Studio
Presenting four little boys, two named James, one named Roy, and one named Charles, each going to get their portrait made at five different Georgia photographers’ studios. The photographers running those studios were D. J. Ryan, R. J. Deane, L. S. Hill & Co., Goodloe, and J. Usher, Jr. One of these little fellows was taken (possibly dragged) […]
Tuesday Tips Redux: “Researching Photographers Working in the South”
Nashville from the Capitol, George N. Barnard, ca. 1865; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Object 84XM.468; digital image courtesy their Open Content Program After my three posts on “Researching Photographers Working in the South,” I found a few things lacking! Of course, a source list will always grow, and always change, so I do not feel […]
Tuesday Tips – Researching Photographers Working in the South, part 3
Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C. John M. South, Danville, VA, hand-tinted carte-de-visite of an unidentified young woman, ca.1872; author’s collection click any image to enlarge Today I want to share some research sources for the South Atlantic states of Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia. Many photographers […]
Tuesday Tips – Researching Photographers Working in the South part 2
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee A Section of one of my bookshelves, photo by the author Welcome to the second of my series of posts on Researching Photographers Working in the South. There is a good reason to become familiar with these sources. We must continue to seek the facts that will help […]
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, […]
Memorial Day, and a Mystery Photo
On this day, Memorial Day, I have chosen some images from my collection depicting soldiers in the United States military. Two are related to the Spanish American War, and the other, the Mystery Photo, was apparently taken just after WWI. The Monday Mystery photograph for today is a photo postcard postmarked “Atlanta May 1919” and captioned […]
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 […]
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