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NON-DEFINITIVE LIST OF LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Name
Blackhall, John
Childs, C.R. (Charles R.)
Dickenson Brothers
Haase, August
Hallberg, A.A.
Hayward, W.H. and E.J. (partnership)
Hayward, W.H. (Warren)
Hayward, W.H.
Iverson, Henry

Location
Hobart
Chicago
Hobart
Hobart
Hobart
Valparaiso
Valparaiso
Crown Pt.

McLellan, John W.
Merrill, A.O. (Arthur)
Mudge, A.C. (Achilles)

Valparaiso
Hobart
Hobart

Mudge, Marion M.
Naumann, J.J. (John)
Portmess, J.E. (Jacob)
Reading, A.H. (Adelbert)

Valparaiso
Hobart
Hobart
Valparaiso

Beginning Date
18521
19013
July 18995
11/28/19027
12/4/19199
Ca. 187210
Ca. 187312
Sept. 187714
187417
187719
187821
188023
188125
187327
9/11/189929
After mid-1880s;31
poss. ca. 1890?32
Ca. 188734
10/30/191336
By Sept. 188938
Ca. 190040

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

Gallery)
Vilmer, William E.

Hobart

189343

193735
Jan. 1918?37
May 191739
After 1940;41 poss. after
195242
Aug. 189944

Crown Pt.

188645

191846

117 Archer, Chicago

115 Archer, Chicago
117 Archer, Chicago
2162 Archer, Chicago
2176 Archer, Chicago

Ending Date
18932
Ca. 19514
11/8/18996
1912-138
187311
187513
(?)191015 191716
187718
187820
187922
188024
188526
1885?28
11/28/190230
Before June 190033

NOTES
1

"The Blackhall Mansion," The Hobart Herald 26 Aug. 1954. 1852 given as the date of his coming to Hobart.
Ibid. 1893 given as the date of his retirement.
3
Foerstner, Abigail. "History By Mail: Photo Postcards Are Snapshots Of Time Gone By." Chicago Tribune 2 Jan. 1994.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-02/entertainment/9401020056_1_postcard-stereo-viewer-photographers. Accessed
2/11/2014.
4
Ibid.
5
"Additional Locals," Hobart Gazette 21 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 Gazette 10 Nov. 1899.
7
"Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette 28 Nov. 1902. Haase buys A.O. Merrill's studio in Hobart.
8
"August Haase Studio Sold to J.J. Naumann," Hobart News 30 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.
9
Advertisement. Hobart News 4 Dec. 1919.
10
Ball, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, With a Compendium of History 1834 1904 (1904).
11
Ibid.
12
Ibid. W.H. Hayward bought out the interest of E.J. Hayward and continued business in Valpo.
13
Ibid.
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14

Ibid.
1910 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.
17
Chicago 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.
18
Ibid.
19
Ibid.
20
Ibid.
21
Ibid.
22
Ibid.
23
Ibid.
24
Ibid.
25
Ibid.
26
Ibid. Henry Iverson is not listed as a photographer in 1886 directories.
27
Goodspeed 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.
28
Valparaiso City Directory (Polk, 1885). Last directory listing I have found.
29
"Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette 8 Sept. 1899.
30
"Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, 28 Nov. 1902. Sells Hobart studio to A. Haase.
31
In 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.
33
6/25/1900: Occupation: photographer, own account, Fresno, CA. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth
Census 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.
35
Ibid.
36
"August Haase Studio Sold to J.J. Naumann," Hobart News 30 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 News 31 Jan. 1918. "New line of work" is tire repair; not clear from the
article whether he will continue his photography business.
38
Not necessarily starting date, but earliest appearance advertising photography services in Hobart newspaper. "Stolen and Paid For,"
Hobart Gazette 4 Sept. 1889.
39
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.
40
Occupation: photographer. 1900 Census.
41
Occupation: photographer engaged in commercial portrait work. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database online]. 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.
42
A.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.
43
Hobart Gazette Souvenir Edition (1898).
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44

"Death of L.K. Showman," Hobart Gazette 5 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 Gazette Souvenir Edition speaks of Mr. Showman as still doing business in Hobart. However, William Elder (his son-inlaw) continued to operate the photography studio under the Showman name until selling the business to A.O. Merrill ("Sold Out,"
Hobart Gazette 18 Aug. 1899).
45
Souvenir Album of Lake County, 1906 (transcribed at http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/x699.htm).
46
Died 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.