Charles Elmore Clark of Nebraska

photographer C E Clark
Holderege, NE

Charles E Clark opened a photograph studio in Holdredge, NE, about June of 1886. It lasted seven years and in 1893 Charles and wife Hattie moved to moved back to Osceola, NE.

In 1907, Hattie purchased and operated the first picture show in Stromsburg, NE, for a short time. Hattie operated a photograph gallery in Stromsburg, KS, until 1938.

Charles died in 1930 at age 70.
Hattie died in 1946. Age 81.

Stromberg (NE) Headlight - 10 Jan 1846

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Mitchell P Creese

photographer: M P Creese
Mankato, KS
example from auction site

Mitchell P Creese
(1852 - 1922 )

1852 Jan
State records, Mitchel P Creese is born in Illinois
1876
State records, M P Creese and Susan A Wells are married
1870 Aug 02
Mazomanit, WI, US census, Mitchell Creese as carpenter
1880 Jun 08
Harrison, KS, US census, M P “Cease” as painter
1880 Dec 17
Burr Oak (KS) Reveille, small mention Mitchell P Creese as Painter
1881 Sep 09
Burr Oak (KS) Reveille, small mention of Creese Gallery
1882 Mar 31, Dec 21
Burr Oak (KS) Reveille, display ad for M P Creese photo rooms, Main Street
1883 Jun 02
Burr Oak (KS) Reveille, small story about Creese Gallery in Burr Oak, KS
1884 Aug 07
Burr Oak (KS) Herald, item tells of M P Creese and purchase of half interest in a “photo wagon” with Foster; Burr Oak to be general headquarters
1885 Nov 14
Burr Oak (KS) Herald, item about the photograph gallery of M P Creese; stocks albums, cases and frames

1886 Nov 13
Burr Oak (KS) Herald, small display ad for M P Creese gallery
1886 Feb 24
Burr Oak, (KS) Herald, display ad for M C Creese gallery
1887 Nov 24
Burr Oak, (KS) Herald, item says M P Creese has SOLD his gallery in Burr Oak, KS, and is leaving Burr Oak
1888 Apr 26
Burr Oak, (KS) Herald, item says M P Creese and family has moved to Mankato, KS;
1888 Nov 22
Burr Oak, (KS) Herald, display ad for gallery now operated by A M Armagost, successor to Creese
1889 Oct 03
Burr Oak (KS) Herald, small item mentions M P Creese “the Mankato photographer”
1900 Jun 02
Mankato, KS, US census, Mitchell Creese as photographer
1900 Dec 13
Burr Oak, (KS) Herald, small ad for Creese Gallery at Burr Oak, open only on Tuesdays 8am to 1pm
1902 Feb 06
Jewell County (KS) Monitor, item says Creese household is placed under quarantine; children are afflicted with viriloid

1902 Mar 03
Burr Oak (KS) Herald, item says Creese Gallery in Burr Oak will be closed until further notice
1902 Mar 13
Burr Oak (KS) Herald, item says M P Creese was released from quarantine
1902 Dec 25
Jewell County (KS) Monitor, ad offers Creese Gallery for sale
1905 Mar 01
Mankato, KS, state census, M P Creese as photographer
1910 Apr 23
Springfield, MO, US census, Mitchell Creese, no occupation listed
1915, 1920
Springfield, MO, city directory, Mitchell P Creese as Optician, wife Susan also listed
1922
Springfield, MO, Find a Grave, Mitchell P Creese dies at age 70

It appears Mitchell P Creese opened his first photography gallery in Burr Oak, KS, late in 1881. He operated there until late 1887 when he sold the gallery to A M Armagost. Creese then moves his family to Mankato, KS.

Creese operates a gallery in Mankato, KS, from about 1888 to 1905. He also operates his old gallery in Burr Oak, KS, one day a week, in at least 1900.

Burr Oak (KS) Reveille -
09 Sep 1881

Burr Oak (KS) Reveille -
18 Dec 1880

Burr Oak (KS) Reveille -
15 Apr 1881

Burr Oak (KS) Reveille -
03 Mar 1881

Burr Oak (KS) Reveille -
31 Mar 1882

Burr Oak (KS) Reveille -
21 Dec 1882

Burr Oak (KS) Reveille -
02 Aug 1883

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
07 Aug 1884

Burr Oak (KS) Reveille -
12 Nov 1885

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
18 Nov 1886 (repeated many times)

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
24 Feb 1887

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
24 Nov 1887

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
26 Apr 1888

Burr Oak (KS) Reveille -
22 Nov 1888

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
03 Oct 1889

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
13 Dec 1900

Jewel County (KS) Monitor -
06 Feb 1902

Jewel County (KS) Monitor -
13 Feb 1902

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
06 Mar 1902

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
13 Mar 1902

Jewell County (KS) Monitor -
13 Sep 1902

Burr Oak (KS) Herald -
26 Jun 1902

Jewell County (KS) Monitor -
25 Dec 1902

photographer: M P Creese
Burr Oak, KS
example from contributor

reverse of card at left

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Miss Sallie Garrity

Sallie E Garrity
(1861 - 1907)

1861
Most accounts place Sallie Garrity’s birth in 1861
1870 Jun 18
Chicago, IL, US census, Sallie Garrity at age 9
1880 Jun 03
Chicago, IL, US census, Sallie Garrity at age 19 (as “Sarah”)
1882
Chicago, IL, city directory, Sallie Garrity NOT listed
1885
Chicago, IL, city directory, Sallie Garrity as photographer; also listed as Misses Garrity (May and Sallie) as photographers at N Clark, cor Elm; res 487 Wells; brother Thomas shown as photographer for Misses Garrity

1886
Loisville, KY, city directory, Sallie Garrity NOT listed
1886
Chicago, IL, city directory, small ad and listing for Misses Garrity at 428 and 430 N Clark St, Chicago and Fourth and Market sts in Louisville, KY
1886 Dec 12
Louisville (KY) Courier item says Miss Garrity at Fourth and Market is having an art exhibition featuring several artists
1887 Jan 03
Louisville (KY) Courier item says Miss Garrity is president of the Kentucky College of Music and Art
1887
Chicago, IL, city directory, Sallie Garrity NOT listed

1887 08 15 Louisville (KY) Courier item says Sallie Garrity enters photographs in the Exposition
1887
Louisville, KY, city directory, Sallie (Miss) Garrity as photographer at 4th se cor Market; res 1018 6th: ; listing also shows brothers Thomas Garrity and “AG” Garrity as photographers for Miss Garrity;
1888 Jan 14
Louisville (KY) Courier, news item says Miss Garrity is president of the Kentucky College of Music and Art
1888 Sep 01
Louisville (KY) Courier; news item says Miss Sallie Garrity was sued for overdue bill for supplies due from firm of Garrity and Woollett (No other information has been found about this, No Woolett listed in the Louisville Directory, possibly an error)

1888
Louisville, KY, city directory, Sallie (Miss) Garrity as photographer at 4th se cor Market; res 1018 6th: ; listing also shows brothers Thomas and John as photographers for Miss Garrity
and John as photographers for Miss Garrity
1889 Jan 23
Louisville (KY) Courier Journal item says Sallie Garrity is defendant in a collection suit
1889 May 04
Louisville (KY) Courier Journal item says Miss Garrity is going to Wisconsin for a vacation from the College of Music and Art
1889
Louisville, KY, city directory, Sallie (Miss) Garrity as photographer at 4th se cor Market; res 317 W Walnut; listing also shows brothers Thomas 1890
Louisville, KY, city directory, Sallie E Garrity as photographer at 307 4th; res 317 W Walnut

1890 Dec 14
Louisville (KY) Courier Journal small ad says Miss Garrity’s old place has been “taken over” by an unnamed photographer
1891
Louisvile, KY, city directory, Sallie Garrity NOT listed
1891
Chicago, IL, city directory, Sallie Garrity as photographer at 241 Wabash; res 1331 Wrightwood Av
1893 Dec 16
Calfornis, Marriage Registration, Sallie Garrity and William E Rothery registerd bride and groom
1894 Aug 01
Louisville (KY) Courier Journal item describes Sallie Garrity’s attempt to find a location for a studio in Washington DC on Pennsylvania Ave and not succeeding
1896
Chicago, IL, city directory, Sallie Garrity NOT listed

1898 Feb 18
San Francisco (CA) Examiner, article tells of Mr and Mrs Rothery are new editors of the “Independent” newspaper
1899
Louisville, KY, city directory, Sallie Garrity NOT listed
1899 Jul 14
Los Angeles (CA) Times, news item says William E and Sallie E Rothery transferred some real estate
1899 Oct 12
Los Angeles (CA) Evening Post Record item describes another law suit for collection of a commission from Sallie and her husband William E Rothery
1900 Jun 02
Los Angeles, CA, US census, Sallie E (Garrity) Rothery, no occupation shown
1901
Los Angeles, CA, city directory, Wm E Rothery as mngr of The Capital; res Shorb, CA

1901 Oct 29
Los Angeles (CA) Times, news item, Rothery’s are involved in another suit
1902 May 10
Los Angeles (CA) Evening Express, item says Mrs S E Rothery is in New York for a rest
1902 Jul 10
Los Angeles (CA) Evening Express story says William E Rothery, former editor of “The Capital” has gone to New York to join wife Sallie
1902 Jul 10
Los Angeles (CA) Evening Post Record, news item says William E Rothery has sold the ranch in Shorb and is moving back New York to join Sallie
1903 Mar 13
Los Angeles (CA) Times, item says Sallie and William have sold a lot located in Primrose tract in CA
1904
Los Angeles, CA, city directory, Wm E Rothery as journalist; res 326 Bonnie Brae

1905
Los Angeles, CA, city directory, Wm E Rothery NOT listed 1906 Aug 04
Los Angeles (CA) Times, item says Sallie has obtained a divorce decree from William E
1907 Jun 17
Los Angeles, CA, state records, Sallie E Garrity dies at age 46

It appears that Sallie Garrity began her photograph career sometime in 1885 with her sister, May (or Mary, depending on which source you believe) billing themselves as “Misses Garrity”. The partnership only lasted a short time for by December of 1886, Sallie is listed as sole proprietor “Miss Garrity”.
No mention of photography was found after 1891.
The concern here is about finding WHEN a cabinet card with the name "Garrity" might have been made.
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Photographs, Pistols and Parasols
Louisville Western Central University

Chicago, IL, city directory - 1886

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 19 Dec 1886

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 30 Dec 1887

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 05 Jan 1887

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 15 Aug 1887

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 15 Aug 1887

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Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 15 Aug 1887

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 23 Jan 1889

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 04 May 1889

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 12 May 1889

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 04 nov 1889

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 21 Dec 1889

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 10 Jun 1890

(repeated many times in 1889)

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 14 Dec 1890

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 25 Dec 1890

Louisville (KY) Courier Journal - 08 Aug 1894

Holy Name Cathedral Marriage Registration
Chicago, IL Marriage Registry - 16 Dec 1893

San Francisco (CA) Examiner - 18 Feb 1898

Los Angeles (CA) Times - 12 May 1899

Los Angeles (CA) Evening Post - 10 Dec 1899

Los Anbeles (CA) Times - 29 Oce 1901

Santa Barbaa (CA) Morning Press - 11 Dec 1901

Los Angeles (CA) Evening Express - 10 May 1902

Los Angeles (CA) Evening Express - 10 Jul 1902

Los Angeles (CA) Evening Post Record - 14 Feb 1903

Corning (NY) Daily Observer - 14 Feb 1903

Los Angeles (CA) Times - 13 Mar 1903

Los Angeles (CA) Times - 04 Aug 1906

photographer: Miss Garrity
Chicago, IL
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photographer: Misses Garrity
. Chicago, IL
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photographer: Miss Garrity
Chicago, IL
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photographer: Miss Garrity
Louisvile, KY
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photographer: Miss Garrity
The Athena Gallery
Louisville. KY
example from Photographs, Pistols and Parasols

photographer: The Athena Gallery
Louisville, KY
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photographer: Miss Sallie Garrity
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photographer: Miss Garrity
Louisville, KY
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photographer: Miss Garrity
Louisville, KY
example from Louisville Western Central University

photographer: Miss Garrity
Louisville, KY
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Here is an interesting item.
This is NOT a cabinet card. According to the owner it measures 6”x8”. This would put it in the neighborhood of a “Boudoir Card”, another (but less popular) standard size of the time.

The information written on the reverse indicates that the subject is William E Rothery. This would be the man that Miss Garrity married in 1893. (See timeline at 1893.) The photographer imprinted on the card is “Miss Garrity”.

The information also includes a location, “Los Angeles, CA”, and a date, “1895, January First”. Now, we don’t know, for sure, if this is the date the photo was taken or the date that Mr Rothery sent the card to Mr Buchanan. But it does place the card in a time frame.

photographer: Miss Garrity
Chicago
example from auction site

Reverse of card at left

Not the one you were looking for? Here's the photographer's INDEX by name. All the Cabinet Card photographers of the 19th century found in LOST GALLERY are listed there.

This is a work always in progress.

Aditional information and New examples are always welcome. Any additional information will help narrow the time that these precious antiques were made.

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Email to the address found in the profile at the bottom of this page.

Some examples on this page have been enhanced or restored for clarity and presentation here.

This page is free for educational and research purposes only but, as always, if the original owner of any of these examples objects to the use on this page, just let me know and they will be immediately removed.