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Researching Photographers Working in the South – Arkansas
The final post in my Tuesday Tips series on Researching Photographers Working in the South, part 7, covers the state of Arkansas. For a background discussion of photography in Arkansas, see the Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry “Photography” at http://tinyurl.com/lo8q6yu Panorama of Arkansas River and Fort Smith, Arkansas, by Hagerty & Zeller; LC Prints & Photographs PAN US […]
Trick, or Treat? Photographs on Eyes of the Dead, of Ghosts and Spirits
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. Neil Armstrong Grave marker, Cedar Key FL; photo by the author, 2012 So often in the past several years as I did research on Georgia photographers, I ran into somewhat unusual, but photograph-related articles. Halloween seems a good time to share these […]
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 […]
Another Great Source: A Century of North Carolina City Directories Now Online
Here’s some breaking news of today August 7, regarding my post of yesterday, August 6: Researching Photographers Working in — North Carolina. Now available A Century of North Carolina City Directories at DIGITALNC This site contains directories from 1860 through 1963, covering 108 cities in 64 counties. Searching for your photographer here may lead not […]
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 […]
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