Tag Archives: Itinerant photographers
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, […]
Will the Real Photographer Fowler Please Fly Up?
Every so often I am researching a Georgia photographer by one name but find another person, and then I realize that there are several others by that surname in my database, so which one is the one I just discovered? I’ve written before about the Adams “family” of photographers, and now I will tell you […]
Wordless Wednesday – Five Chairs
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African American Photographers in Georgia – Tuesday Tips
John W. Johnston (1882-1966) advertisement, May 5, 1917 Savannah Tribune Before we are completely out of February, and Black History Month, I wanted to do an update on those Georgia photographers and their associates whom I know to be African American. At least one of these photographers was born in the West Indies (John W. Johnston, […]
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