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The Misses Mead, a 40 Year Career in “the ideal profession for a woman”
This month I would like to introduce you to two women who had a long career as photographers. Many Georgia photographers chose to work with their siblings, including brothers and their sisters, and women and their sisters. But overall, in the business of photography in Atlanta, few had as lengthy a career as The Misses […]
Veterans Day – Military Sources of Substance
It’s Veterans Day, saluting all those who are serving or have served in our military. The following significant sources documenting those who have served, will serve you well. First, of note regarding the American Civil War and primarily photographic portraits, is a new online resource created by Ron Coddington, editor and publisher of one of […]
Leaping into Summer Tips
It is Summer! There’s so much new information out there to help us with our summer photographic research that I want to share with you. In alphabetical order by state, followed by some miscellaneous sources very possibly of use to you. Florida: Jacqui Love Thornell and her husband Kwasi Thornell have made the largest ever […]
Educating Women Photographers and Their Associates
As early as 1863 the employment of women as photographers was included in a wonderful work called The Employments of Women: a Cylocpaedia of Woman’s Work (Boston: Walker, Wise & Co., 1863). It was compiled by a woman named Virginia Penny, who was a southerner, born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 18, 1826. This publication […]
Additions to Georgia’s Black photographers
When I last tallied the number of Black photographers and associates I have documented thus far, I counted 87 in my database. Recently I began adding several I discovered via the 1900 and 1910 census, and below is what I have found. There is much more that needs to be uncovered on these seven. If […]
Women in Georgia Photography, the 2022 Gold
In time for Women’s History Month in 2021, I counted 275 women among the photographers included in my database. Now, during the same month 2022, I count 283 women in my database, but as I revisited the collections of 1900 and 1910 census records I gathered for “photographers, Georgia,” it seems I’m prospecting for gold! […]
More Unknown Women in Georgia Photography – Athens
In March 2016, in my database of Georgia photographers, I counted 190 women involved in the business of photography in Georgia, from the mid-nineteeth to the mid-twentieth cenury. That was only five more than I noted in March 2015. In March 2019, the total was about 240, and by March 2020, I had documented at least twenty […]
A Veterans Day Question: Where Was Camp Gordon, Georgia?
On this Veterans Day 2020, I’m posing a question often asked by anyone doing family or military history. Where exactly was Camp Gordon located in Georgia? Well, that depends on during which war your “Camp Gordon” relative or subject was stationed. Both locations were named for Confederate Lieutenant General John Brown Gordon. During the WWI-era, […]
They Could Do It All – the Women in Georgia Photography
As of this date in 2020, I have documented over 260 women involved in the business of photography in Georgia, from the mid-nineteeth, to the mid-twentieth cenury. This is quite an increase from the first time I posted these numbers in 2015 (only 185), but this number does mean I’ve documented over 20 more […]
They were all Valentines, East and Tops and Georgia photography
William East Lenney (1868-1960) married Loiette Keim (1872-1959) on December 8, 1892, in Newport, Pennsylvania, where “East” Lenney had been working as a photographer. After their marriage they went to Philadelphia, then took a train trip to Florida. That train went through, and probably stopped in, Atlanta, Georgia. The couple decided Atlanta would be a good […]
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