Martin Luther Sanders

photographer: M L Sanders
Waco,TX
example from Portal to Texas History

photographer: M L Sanders
503 1/2 Austin Street, Waco,TX
example from Portal to Texas History This photograph is part of the collection entitled:
Rescuing Texas History
and was provided by the Private Collection of
T. B. Willis to The Portal to Texas History,
a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries

photographer: M L Sanders
503 1/2 Austin Street, Waco,TX
example from Portal to Texas History This photograph is part of the collection entitled:
Rescuing Texas History
and was provided by the Private Collection of
T. B. Willis to The Portal to Texas History,
a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries

photographer: M L Sanders
503 1/2 Austin Street, Waco,TX
example from Portal to Texas History This photograph is part of the collection entitled:
Rescuing Texas History
and was provided by the Private Collection of
T. B. Willis to The Portal to Texas History,
a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries

Martin Luther Sanders
(1859 – 1916)

1859 Aug 30 (or 20, depending on source)
Tennessee, state records, Martin Luther Sanders is born to Overton Sanders and Helen McBride
1860 Jun 01
District 9, Maury, TN, US census, Martin L Saunders at age one year, living with parents
1870 Jul 28
District 9, Maury, TN, US census, Martin Sanders at age 11 living with parents
1880 Jun 04
Precinct 6, Ellis, TX, US census, Martin Sanders as laborer, living with family of David Curry, farmer
1883
Abilene, TX, residence, according to “Abeline-On Catclaw Creek: A Profile of a West Texas Town”
by Katherine Duff
1883 Apr 26
Brownwood, Brown, TX, state records, M L Sanders and Sallie E Wood are married
1883 Nov 15
Austin (TX) Weekly Statesman, news item says M L Sanders is in business on West Broadway
1887 Apr 26
Brownwood, TX, state records son Roy Wood Sanders is born

1890, 1891, 1892
Brownwood, TX, Texas State Gazette, residence
1892
Waco, TX, city directory. Sanders NOT listed
1893
Waco, TX, state records, Son Silas Overton Sanders is born
1894
Waco, TX, city directory. Sanders NOT listed
1894 Aug 09
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin, news item mentions Sanders gallery in Brownwood, TX
1894 Sep 27
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin news item says M L Sanders is on the faculty of Payne College for 1894-1895
1894 Oct 18
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin news item says M L Sanders has opened a gallery at the Logan Drug store building just north of the Doran Hotel
1894 Oct 25
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin news item says M L Sanders has a gallery at Goldthwaite, TX
1894 Dec 30
Galveston (TX) Daily News item describes the fire loss at Brownwood, TX
1895 Jan 03
Austin (TX) Weekly Statesman, news item says the Sanders Building burned Dec 29, 1894 with a total loss

1895 Jan 10
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin news item says M L Sanders has replaced his equipment after a fire destroyed his gallery
1895 Jan 24
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin news item says M L Sanders has re-opened his gallery after the fire
1895 Feb 14
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin news item says M L Sanders is running for the office of City Assessor
1895 Feb 14
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin news item says M L Sanders has sold his gallery to West and Churchill
1895 Mar 07
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin says the M L Sanders and family are moving to Waco, TX
1895 May 23
Brownwood (TX) Bulletin news item says M L Sanders has opened a photograph gallery in Waco, TX
1896, 1897
Waco, TX, city directory, M L Sanders at 503 ½ Austin; res 1617 Barnard
1898, 1899
Waco, TX, city directory, M L Sanders
1900
Waco, TX, city directory, M L Sanders as photographer at 503 ½ Austin; res: rear 1617 Barnard Av

1901
Waco, TX, city directory, M L Sanders at 503 ½ Austin (no occupation shown)
1900 Jun 04
Waco TX, US census, Martin L Sanders as photographer; res 1617 Barnard Street
1902, 1904
Waco, TX, city directory, M L Sanders NOT listed res or bus (this is probably because he and family have moved to a rural address near Waco, TX
1906, 1907
Waco, TX, city directory, Martin L Sanders as photographer at 609 ½ Austin; res Corsicana rd, 2 ½ miles E of city
1906 Sep 06
Austin (TX) American news item says M L Sanders is now vice president of the Photographers Association of TX
1908
Waco, TX, Tribune Herald M L Sanders as president of the Texas Professional Photographers Association
1908 Sep 10
San Antonio (TX) Gazette news item says M L Sanders is now president of the Photographers Association

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1910
Waco, TX, city directory, Martin L Sanders as photographer; res Corsicana rd, 2 ½ miles E of city; NOT listed in business pages; (no listing for the studio)
1910 May 02
Waco TX, US census, Martin L Sanders as farmer; res Corsicana Rd
1911
Waco, TX, city directory, Martin L Sanders as photographer at 609 ½ Austin; res 719 N 14th (Sanders has moved back to town, studio is open again
1913, 1916
Waco, TX, city directory, Martin L Sanders NOT listed in residential or business pages
1916 Jul 25
Brownwood, TX, death certificate, Martin L Sanders dies of apoplexy at age 56 (Death Certificate says age 57) (Oddly, as notable as M L Sanders seems to have been, no obituary has been found so far.)
1917
Waco, TX, city directory, John W Sanders as photographer, res 1604 N 9th, (No relatioinship to Martin L Sanders found.)

Austin (TX) Weekly Statement -
15 Nov 1863


Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
09 Aug 1894

Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
04 Oct 1894

Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
28 Oct 1894


Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
25 OCt 1894


Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
20 Dec 1894

Additional examples of Sanders photographs (not cabinet cards) at Portal to Texas History

Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
30 Dec 1894

Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
10 Jan 1895


Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
24 Jan 1895


Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
24 Jan 1895

Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
14 Feb 1895

Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
14 Feb 1895


Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
07 Mar 1895

Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
23 May 1895


Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
l04 Feb 1905

Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
06 Sep 1906


Brownwood (TX) Bulletin -
10 Sep 1909

San Antonio (TX) Express -
009 Sep 1908

photographer: M L Sanders
Brownwood, TX
example from Portal to Texas History
This photograph is part of the collection entitled:
Rescuing Texas History
and was provided by the Private Collection of
T. B. Willis to The Portal to Texas History,
a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries

reverse of card at left

photographer: M L Sanders
Brownwood, TX
example from Portal to Texas History
This photograph is part of the collection entitled:
Rescuing Texas History
and was provided by the Private Collection of
T. B. Willis to The Portal to Texas History,
a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries

reverse of card at left

photographer: M L Sanders
503 1/2 Austin Street, Brownwood, TX
example from Portal to Texas History
This photograph is part of the collection entitled:
Rescuing Texas History
and was provided by the Private Collection of
T. B. Willis to The Portal to Texas History,
a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries

photographer: M L Sanders
503 1/2 Austin Street, Brownwood, TX
example from Portal to Texas History
This photograph is part of the collection entitled:
Rescuing Texas History
and was provided by the Private Collection of
T. B. Willis to The Portal to Texas History,
a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries

photographer: M L Sanders
503 1/2 Austin Street, Brownwood, TX
example from Portal to Texas History

photographer: M L Sanders
Brownwood, TX
example from Portal to Texas History

Not the one you were looking for? Here's the photographer's INDEX by name. Listed here are all the Cabinet Card photographers of the 19th century found in LOST GALLERY. This is a work in progress. For a look at the original postings go to LOST GALLERY.

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John Bennette Chambers

photographer Chambers (JB or BJ)
Brownwood, TX

John Bennette Chambers
(1870 - )

1870 May
Waco, Texas, US census, birth year agrees in all census reports, John Bennette Chambers is born
1896
Texas, state records, J B Chambers marries Alice Souther
1900
Abilene, TX, US census Chambers as photographer
1909
Abilene, TX, city directory Chambers NOT listed (earliest directory available)
1909, 1911
Brownwood, TX, city directory, J B Chambers and wife are NOT listed
1910
Snyder, TX, US census Chambers listed as real estate agent; Wife Alice listed as photographer
1920 27 Apr
Corpus Christi, TX, US census Chambers as real estate agent
1923
Bryan (TX) Eagle, news item, College Station, John Bennette Chambers JR receives BA degree

1935
Cameron, TX, US census of 1940 Chambers is living in Cameron, TX
1940
Cameron, TX, US census Chambers as farmer
1941 Jul 08
Temple, TX, J B Chambers dies at age 72

There were several citizens named J B (or B J) Chambers in Texas during the cabinet card era. Only one Chambers came up associated with photography and then only once. The 1900 US census, J B Chambers is listed as a photographer in Abilene, TX. All other documents show him as a real estate agent.

The US census of 1910 shows J B Chambers as 5eal estate agent and his wife Alice as photographer.

So if this is the correct Chambers as photographer for this unusual cabinet card, it must have been done around 1900.

This is a "Best Guess" scenario. If you have additional information or examples please send a note to the email address in the profile. Thanks.

photographer: Chambers
Brownwood, TX
example from Cabinet Card Gallery

Cabinet Card examples for J B Chambers appear to be scare.

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.

Cabinet cards typically have the photographer’s name and address printed on the bottom edge or the reverse of the card. 19th century photographers moved around a lot. The basic idea here is to find WHEN a photographer was WHERE, which will help date an unidentified CABINET CARD from your family album.

This is a work always in progress.

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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.