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Bowen's Art Gallery, Anderson, Indiana

Bowen's Art Gallery, Anderson, Indiana

Posted: 16 Oct 2006 9:31PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bowen
Would someone have any information when this photographer, or business may have been operating? Marked on an old photograph is:

Bowen's Art Gallery
Anderson, Ind.

I believe the actual photograph was quite possibly a "copy" of an older photograph, however, I believe it was a process that was possible at the time this photographer was in business.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Re: Bowen's Art Gallery, Anderson, Indiana

Joan Hostetler (View posts)
Posted: 17 Oct 2006 6:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bowen, Long, Hyle, Paland
The only information I have in my database so far about the photographer Bowen in Anderson is the following:

Bowen & Long
cabinet card (1890s): Bowen & Long, successor to Hyle & Paland Art Studio, Anderson
(Note: Hyle & Paland started in Anderson in late 1891 or early 1892)

J. S. Bowen, photographer
46 1/2 N. Meridian St., Anderson
The Blue Book for Amateur Photographers, American Edition, 1895, p. 239

J. S. Bowen, photographer
1895-96 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 984

This doesn't mean that he wasn't in business earlier or later, rather just that I haven't checked many Anderson sources.

Hope this helps.

Joan Hostetler
Indiana Photographers Project

Re: Bowen's Art Gallery, Anderson, Indiana

Posted: 17 Oct 2006 7:39PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bowen
Yes, that does help. Thank you very much.

BTW ... I believe his name was James Bowen, shown as a photographer on the 1900 census for Madison County, IN.
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