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When Where These Photograpers in Business?

When Where These Photograpers in Business?

Posted: 23 Jan 2003 12:35AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 14 Jul 2003 9:22AM GMT
Can anyone tell me when these 'Photographers' were in business . . . I have several old pic and it would help in tracing my great grandmothers family . . . .

GORGAS & MULVEY, Madison In
Bryant, 17 E Main St, LaPorte, IN
Alfred VanSlyke, Lowell, IN
Wm M Scott, LaPorte, IN

Thanks for any help at all . . .Beverly / Arlington TX

Re: When Where These Photograpers in Business?

Joan Hostetler (View posts)
Posted: 24 Jan 2003 9:50AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Scott, Bryant, VanSlyke, Gorgas, Mulvey
I'm compiling a database of Indiana photographers and have this information about the photographers in your query. Let me know if you would like further information.

Joan E. Hostetler
Indiana Photographers Project
815 N. Highland Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 639-2814
heritagephoto@indy.rr.com

Gorgas & Mulvey, Madison, ca. 1860-70
[Gorgas worked solo until late 1850s. Gorgas & Mulvey are listed as partners from as early as 1860 through 1868. By 1871 Mulvey was no longer a partner]

Bryant operated in LaPorte from the 1860s (one article states 1863, another 1869) through the 1890s. I do not have the 17 E. Main St. address in my database.

VanSlyke is not in the database.

William M. Scott opened a studio in LaPorte in 1853 and the Scott Studio was sold to A. H. Hultgren in 1901.

Re: When Where These Photograpers in Business?

Posted: 24 Jan 2003 10:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 14 Jul 2003 9:22AM GMT
Good morning Joan . . . .thank you so much. I believe this is going to be a tremendous help. This is all the names I have at this time . . . . if I come across anymore, I will be back . .Thanks again. . . . .Beverly / Arlington TX

Re: When Where These Photograpers in Business?

Posted: 9 May 2006 2:16PM GMT
Classification: Query
Do you have information about Ferguson in Columbus,IN? Thanks.

Photographer Ferguson in Columbus, Indiana

Joan Hostetler (View posts)
Posted: 9 May 2006 3:18PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Ferguson, Pritchard
I don't have a lot about him, but I can give you some dates. J. E. Ferguson was working as a photographer in Columbus, IN as early as 1895. He sold his studio in early 1909.

Here are my sources:
-1895-96 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 985; listed as J. E. Ferguson
-cabinet photo (ca. 1898) marked Ferguson's Ground Floor Gallery, 517 Washington Street, Columbus IN
-undated photo, Ferguson, opp. St. Dennis Hotel, Columbus
-undated photo, Ferguson's Ground Floor Gallery, 429 Washington St., Columbus, IN
-Bulletin of Photography, 7 Apr. 1909, p. 222 C. C. Pritchard has bought the Ferguson Photography Gallery at Columbus.

Joan Hostetler
Indiana Photographers Project
716 N. Dorman St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 639-2814

Re: Photographer Ferguson in Columbus, Indiana

Posted: 9 Dec 2011 6:10AM GMT
Classification: Query
This is cool. I am a current photographer in madison,and I attend the ivy tech photo program in coloumbus. not only that but my name is joel ferguson. I want to know all that i can.
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