C J Snyder of Topeka, KS

photographer: Snyder
632 Kansas, Topeka, KS
example from Michael Lehr

reverse of card at left

Charles Julius Snyder
(1854-1925)

C J Snyder kept a gallery in Topeka, KS, for many years. According to newspaper mentions and city directory listings the addresses were as follows:
1879 - 1880
186 Kansas Ave
1881 Dec
174 Kansas Ave
1888 Apr
Snyder Art Gallery opposite the Windsor (possibly 632 Kansas)
1889 Jun to 1896 Nov
Snyder Art Gallery 632 Kansas
1897 Nov to 1899 May and well into the next century
Snyder Art Gallery at 722 Kansas
Cabinet cards after 1900 will be scarce

(Note: Dates shown are the newspaper mention dates. Exact dates of the location changes are not known. This will give the approximate date a cabinet card was made where an address is stamped on the card.)

Topeka (KS) Capital Journal -
19 Dec 1879

Topeka (KS) Capital Journal -
26 Dec 1879

photographer: Snyder
174 Kansas, Topeka, KS
example from auction site

photographer: Snyder
632 Kansas Av, Topeka, KS
example from auction site

photographer: Snyder
632 Kansas Av, Topeka, KS
example from contributor

photographer: Snyder
Topeka, KS
example from auction site

phohographer: G J Snyder
Topeka, KS
example from auction site

phohographer: Snyder
Topeka, KS
example from auction site

phohographer: G J Snyder
632 Kansas Av, Topeka, KS
example from auction site

reverse design of all three cards at left

phohographer: G J Snyder
Topeka, KS
example from auction site

phohographer: Snyder's Studio
Burlingame, KS
example from auction site
Burlingame is just 34 miles from Topeka

phohographer: G J Snyder
Topeka, KS
example from auction site

phohographer: G J Snyder
Topeka, KS
example from auction site

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.

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

All submissions should be free of glare and shadows.
Do not crop.
Leave a border around each card. The edges are sometimes an important clue to the age of the card.
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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.

D L Cook of Fort Scott, Kansas

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1891
(Don't you wish they ALL had done this?)

Two newspaper items seem to sum up the career of photographer
David L Cook of Fort Scott, Kansas.

The gallery appears to have been in business from August of 1891 to April of 1899.

In addition to that, the cards from that gallery are typically imprinted with the year they were finished.

Fort Scott (KS) Daiy Tribune -
22 Aug 1891

Fort Scott (KS) Weekly Tribune -
20 Apr 1899

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1891

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1892

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1892

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1892

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1892

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1892

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from contributor
photographer dated: 1893

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1893

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from contributor
photographer dated: 1893

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from contributor
photographer dated: 1893

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1895

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1897

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1897
Owner dated: early 1897

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1898

photographer: D L Cook
Fort Scott, KS
example from auction site
photographer dated: 1898

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.

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

All submissions should be free of glare and shadows.
Do not crop.
Leave a border around each card. The edges are sometimes an important clue to the age of the card.
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.

W W McLain, Eldorado, Kansas Photographer

W W McLain moved around a lot. The timeline here will be concerned with his El Dorado, Kansas perion only. If examples from other locations turn up it will be expanded.

William Wells McLain
(1861 - 1945 )

1861 May 06
Nevada, IA, state records, William Wells McLain is born
1893 Sep 13
El Dorado (KS) Walnut Valley Times, item says Mr and Mrs W W McLain are planning a Gallery in El Dorado
1893 Sep 19
El Dorado (KS) Walnut Valley Times, item says McLain has photo-car set up in El Dorado just west of the old court house
1893 Sep 21
El Dorado (KS) Butler County Citizen, item says stay away from McClain the photographer
1894 Sep 18
El Dorado (KS) Walnut Valley Times, item tells of McLain plans to close gallery

1894 Dec 01
El Dorado (KS) Visitor, display ad for McLain photo car located on Central Avenue
1895 Nov 15
El Dorado (KS) Republican, small ad for W W McLain photo car on North Main Street
1896 Feb 01
El Dorado (KS) Templar, item describes W W McLain and wife (advocates of temperance) with photo-car in El Dorado
1897 Sep 03
El Dorado (KS) Walnut Valley Times, item says Mr and Mrs W W McLain will soon move to Paola, KS
1897 Sep 03
El Dorado (KS) Butler County Democrat, ad for McLain photographs to be finished at Paola, KS
1900 Jan 19
El Dorado (KS) Republican, item says W W McLain has a gallery in Chicago, now
1945 Dec 22
Lubbock, TX, FindaGrave, W W McLain dies at age 84

It appears that W W McLain operated in El Dorado, KS, from about September of 1893 to about September of 1897.

photographer: McLain
El Dorado, KS
example from auction site

photographer: McClain
Eldorado, KS
example from mj aux on Flickr

Butler County Citizen -
21 Sep 1893 - (Unusual "Welcome")

Walnut Valley TImes -
18 Sep 1894

El Dorado (KS) Visitor -
01 Dec 1894

El Dorado (KS) Templar -
01 Feb 1896

Walnut Valley Times -
03 Sep 1897

Butler County (KS) Democrat -
03 Sep 1897

Butler County (KS) Democrat -
03 Sep 1897

El Dorado (KS) Republican -
19 Jan 1900 />

Wichita (KS) Evening Eagle -
26 Dec 1945

photographer: McLain
El Dorado, KS
example from auction site

photographer: McClain
Eldorado, KS
example from mj aux on Flickr

photographer: McClain
Eldorado, KS
example from mj aux on Flickr

photographer: McLain
El Dorado, KS
example from auction site

photographer: McLain
El Dorado, KS
example from auction site

photographer: McClain
Eldorado, KS
example from mj aux on Flickr

photographer: McLain
El Dorado, KS
example from ForgottenFacesForgottenPlaces

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.

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

All submissions should be free of glare and shadows.
Do not crop.
Leave a border around each card. The edges are sometimes an important clue to the age of the card.
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.