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Category: Photographers

List of Photographers by name

Indian War Dancer

Divided back, unused postcard with writing. Publisher and distributor:  Bob Petley, Phoenix, Arizona. From a Kodachrome original by Ray Manley of Western Ways. Made in the U.S.A. Series or number K140. Photo circa early 1950s. Postcard circa 1963. Price:  $5.00…Read More…

John K. Stevens Photographer Trade Card

Trade card showing  “Stevens – The Photographer, McVicker’s Theatre Building, 14 Photographs, 3 Styles, $3.00.”  This advertising card, in colors of blue-green, pink, and brown with a gold-tone border is entitled,  “La Fuite des Oiseaux”  and shows a boy and…Read More…

Peder Hansen Hadrup

This is a cropped and cleaned up version of the back of the Carte de Visite photo we have. (See post under Bearded Man, Aarhus, Denmark.) This is only one version of the studio logo, as there is another found…Read More…

Edward Payson Butler (1834-1923)

Photographer, Edward Payson Butler was born in Clinton, Pennsylvania May 13, 1834, son of Hezekiah Goodwin Butler and Emily White, according to the 1879 genealogy compilation of Benjamin Cleveland and family. All seven U. S. Federal Census records, as well…Read More…

George Rowell Butler, Photographer

Butler photographer’s logo that appears at the bottom right of the “Salinas California Couple” photo. George R. Butler (1861- c. 1935) California-born photographer, active in counties of San Francisco, San Benito, Monterey and San Mateo. This post refers back to…Read More…

William Marratt, Proprietor of Marratt’s City Hall Photograph Gallery

See two examples of the Marratt gallery’s work under our post entitled Detroit Guy and Detroit Woman By Marratt. Photographer, William Marratt appears in the 1880 Detroit city directory as proprietor of Marratt’s City Hall Photograph Gallery Address for the…Read More…

List of Detroit Photographers 1880

Abraham, A.W.           187 Grand River ave Allen, Frank W.           83 Michigan ave. Bardwell, J.J.              120 Michigan ave. Joseph Boivert            148 Dubois Bradford, H.J.              257 Michigan ave. Campbell, S.W.           134 Gratiot ave. DeForest, D. A.            1 Larned w. Eisendhardt, C.            204…Read More…

Charles A. Millard, Detroit Photographer

According to Michigan death records, Charles A. Millard was born in Connecticut about 1834, and died in Detroit on January 25, 1890 or 1891. There are several entries for the 1890 date, and one entry showing 1891. C. A. Millard…Read More…