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NON-DEFINITIVE LIST OF LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Name Location Beginning Date Ending Date

Blackhall, John Hobart 18521 18932

Childs, C.R. (Charles R.) Chicago 19013 Ca. 19514

Dickenson Brothers Hobart July 18995 11/8/18996

Haase, August Hobart 11/28/19027 1912-138

Hallberg, A.A. Hobart 12/4/19199

Hayward, W.H. and E.J. (partnership) Valparaiso Ca. 187210 187311

Hayward, W.H. (Warren) Valparaiso Ca. 187312 187513

Hayward, W.H. Crown Pt. Sept. 187714 (?)191015191716

Iverson, Henry 117 Archer, Chicago 187417 187718115 Archer, Chicago 187719 187820117 Archer, Chicago 187821 1879222162 Archer, Chicago 188023 1880242176 Archer, Chicago 188125 188526

McLellan, John W. Valparaiso 187327 1885?28

Merrill, A.O. (Arthur) Hobart 9/11/189929

11/28/190230

Mudge, A.C. (Achilles) Hobart After mid-1880s;31

poss. ca. 1890?32Before June 190033

Mudge, Marion M. Valparaiso Ca. 188734 193735

Naumann, J.J. (John) Hobart 10/30/191336 Jan. 1918?37

Portmess, J.E. (Jacob) Hobart By Sept. 188938 May 191739

Reading, A.H. (Adelbert) Valparaiso Ca. 190040 After 1940;41poss. after195242

Showman, L.K. (Lorenzo Kyle) (Showman'sGallery)

Hobart 189343 Aug. 189944

Vilmer, William E. Crown Pt. 188645 191846

NOTES

1"The Blackhall Mansion," The Hobart Herald26 Aug. 1954. 1852 given as the date of his coming to Hobart.2Ibid. 1893 given as the date of his retirement.3Foerstner, Abigail. "History By Mail: Photo Postcards Are Snapshots Of Time Gone By." Chicago Tribune2 Jan. 1994.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-02/entertainment/9401020056_1_postcard-stereo-viewer-photographers. Accessed

2/11/2014.4Ibid.5"Additional Locals,"Hobart Gazette21 July 1899. The language of this item suggests that the Dickenson brothers were itinerant

photographers who operated out of a "car" (perhaps a railroad car) "on Main st. near the Nickel Plate R.R."6"Additional Locals,"Hobart Gazette10 Nov. 1899.7"Local Drifts,"Hobart Gazette28 Nov. 1902. Haase buys A.O. Merrill's studio in Hobart.8"August Haase Studio Sold to J.J. Naumann,"Hobart News30 Oct. 1913. Articles states Hobart had been without a photographer for

about a year because Haase's failing eyesight had caused him to give up photography and take a job in a Gary mill.9Advertisement.Hobart News4 Dec. 1919.10Ball,Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, With a Compendium of History 18341904(1904).11Ibid.12Ibid. W.H. Hayward bought out the interest of E.J. Hayward and continued business in Valpo.13Ibid.

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14Ibid.151910 census: occupation photographer, own studio. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census[database on-line]. Provo,

UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm

publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.16

Died July 26, 1917. Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Cook County Clerk. Cook County Clerk Genealogy Records. Cook County Clerks

Office, Chicago, IL: Cook County Clerk, 2008.17Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Photographers 1874 Through 1900 as Listed in Chicago City Directories(1958). This

publication has additional listings for partnerships of Iverson & Franklin and Iverson & Framhein.18Ibid.19Ibid.20Ibid.21Ibid.22Ibid.23Ibid.24Ibid.25Ibid.26Ibid. Henry Iverson is not listed as a photographer in 1886 directories.27Goodspeed and Blanchard, Counties of Porter and Lake

Historical and Biographical(1882). This date is not quite consistent

with Ball's account of Hayward's career.28Valparaiso City Directory(Polk, 1885). Last directory listing I have found.29"Local Drifts,"Hobart Gazette8 Sept. 1899.30"Local Drifts,"Hobart Gazette, 28 Nov. 1902. Sells Hobart studio to A. Haase.31In 1880 he was 12 yrs old, living in Michigan. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United

States Federal Census[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: Tenth Census of the

United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National

Archives, Washington, D.C.32"An All-around Man.Mr. A. C. Mudge, who has had several years' practical experience in the management of his brother's

gallery at Valparaiso, Ind., desires a position where his capabilities will find appreciation." Wilson's Photographic Magazine, Volume

XXXIV, 1897. Accessed September 19, 2013. Internet Archive.336/25/1900: Occupation: photographer, own account, Fresno, CA. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census[database on-

line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. TwelfthCensus of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls

(hereinafter, "1900 Census").34"Death Takes M.M. Mudge," Vidette-Messenger(Valparaiso) 25 Nov. 1950.35Ibid.36"August Haase Studio Sold to J.J. Naumann,"Hobart News30 Oct. 1913. Articles states Hobart had been without a photographer

for about a year because Haase's failing eyesight had caused him to give up photography and take a job in a Gary mill.37"J.J. Naumann to Take Up New Line of Work," Hobart News31 Jan. 1918. "New line of work" is tire repair; not clear from the

article whether he will continue his photography business.38Not necessarily starting date, but earliest appearance advertising photography services in Hobart newspaper. "Stolen and Paid For,"

Hobart Gazette4 Sept. 1889.39Ancestry.com.Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data:

Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration. Indiana: circa 1938-1941.40

Occupation: photographer. 1900 Census.41Occupation: photographer engaged in commercial portrait work. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census[database on-

line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth

Census of the United States, 1940.Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.42A.H. and his wife Caroline were married in 1898 and "[l]ived in Valparaiso the first 54 years of [their] married life and then moved

to Safety Harbor[, Florida]." "Deaths," Vidette-Messenger(Valpraiso) 11 May 1955.43Hobart GazetteSouvenir Edition (1898).

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44"Death of L.K. Showman,"Hobart Gazette5 Dec. 1902, an obituary largely reprinted from a paper local to Waverly, Tennessee

(where Mr. Showman died), states that Mr. Showman had left Hobart for Waverly in 1897; but it may be mistaken by a year, since the

May 1898 GazetteSouvenir Edition speaks of Mr. Showman as still doing business in Hobart. However, William Elder (his son-in-

law) continued to operate the photography studio under the Showman name until selling the business to A.O. Merrill ("Sold Out,"

Hobart Gazette18 Aug. 1899).45Souvenir Album of Lake County, 1906(transcribed at http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/x699.htm).46Died 10 Dec. 1918, age 57. Ancestry.com.Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration.

Indiana: circa 1938-1941.