Tag Archives: Photographers
Tuesday Tips – More Research News You Can Use
Two Metalworkers, Daguerreotype by unknown photographer, 1855; digital images courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program I was able to attend the Henry D. Green Symposium on the Decorative Art this February, although I had been iced-in the two days before — I was lucky in that I am only a few hours away from […]
Monday Musings – Share that research!
Today, only a short post. It has been quite a week, or perhaps ten days – full of business, and busyness. I spent time updating a biographical document I compiled on a Savannah photographer some time ago. I had a lot of new information, more than I thought. A descendant, a great, great granddaughter of […]
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 […]
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 1
Doing your photo research the easy way. “Shading it with one hand, I carefully compared it to the sleeper”; Illustration for “Carriston’s Gift” by Hugh Conway, 1885 I was recently asked to recommend books and websites for researching photographers working in the southern states in the 19th and early 20th centuries. I decided to compile a list […]
A Psychic Photographer, the Mysterious Grace Gray DeLong – Faces & Places Friday
Portrait of Madame DeLong used in her Aug. 1911 “Ask Mme. DeLong” advertisements, Savannah GA This post could easily be a Monday Mystery. My subject of the day is Grace Gray Delong who briefly ran a photography studio in Savannah, Georgia, but spent most of her career working as a psychic. She worked as a psychic […]
Friday Faces – Georgia’s Little Girls
Today, I’m writing a short and not at all deep, post. I thought I would share some of the photos of Georgia’s Little Girls taken by Georgia photographers fom my collection. I have many, and these are only a few. In the coming months, in addition to some more detailed pieces on other things and […]
A Reevaluation – But Mysteries Remain
Book Spine Poem by E. Lee Eltzroth My post today is an information update on two previous posts – first the “mystery” post of June 24th (Are these gents Savannah Irish? —) and second, my recent post of July 1st on Charles J. Warner (Love, Music, Photography & a Scandal in a Little Georgia Town). […]
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 […]
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