Saturday, April 1, 2023

L D Judkins

photographer: L D Judkins
Third Street, Bismark, D T
example from LOST GALLERY

Lorenzo Dow Judkins
(1833-1890)

1833 Feb 17
Chesterville, ME, state records, Lorenzo Dow Judkins is born to Joseph Judkins and Abigail Knowles
1850 Sep 18
Chesterville, ME, US census, Lorenzo Dow, age 17, living with parents, no occupation shown
1857
Haverhill, MA, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins NOT listed
1858 (one page only on ancestry)
Charlestown, ME, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as carpenter; bds 5 Prescott
1859 May 05
Lowell, MA, state records, Lorenzo Judkins and Maria A Ward are married; Lorenzo is listed as “artist”
1859
Haverhill, MA, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as Daguerrian artist; bds t 2 Currier Crt
1860
Haverhill, MA, city directory, L D Judkins as Daguerrian artist, Portland

1860 Jun 30
Haverhill, MA, US census, Lorenzo D Judkins as laborer (census taker may not have been able to spell “Daguerrian” or perhaps just didn’t know what it meant)
1863 Jul 01
Haverhill, MA, civil war draft registry, Lorenzo D Judkins as artist
1865
Haverhill, MA, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as artist at 10 Main, res Vestry
1865 Aug 11
Haverhill, MA, Massachusetts state census, Lorenzo Judkins as artist
1867, 1869
Haverhill, Ma, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins NOT listed
1868, 1869
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins NOT listed
1868
From newspaper obituary, Judkins moves to Indianapolis
1870, 1871
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer at 16 ½ E Washington; res same

1870 Dec 03
Indianapolis (IN) News, small ad for L D Judkins photographer at 16 ½ E Washington
1872
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer at 16 ½ and 36 ½ E Washington; res 16 ½ E Washington
1872 Sep 21
Indianapolis (IN) News, news item says L D Judkinsa has opened new photograph rooms at 36 ½ E Washington, to be know as “Academy of Art”; “Art Chambers” at 16 ½ E Washington
1874, 1875, 1876
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer at 16 ½ E Washington; res same
1877
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer at 16 ½ E Washington; res 85 Broadway
1878
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, missing res pages; business section: Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer at 16 ½ E Washington
1879
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer (NO studio listed); res 74 E Pratt; note that W J and J A Schroy, photographers, are at 16 1/5 E Washington

1879 Dec 13
Indianapolis (IN) News item says L D Judkins and F C Whippey will re-open the gallery at 16 1/5 E Washington (probably means that Judkins and Whippey had formed a partnership and will operate in the location established by Judkins)
1880
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer with Judkins and Whippey (Fred C Whippey) at 16 ½ E Washington
1880 Jun 18
Indianapolis, IN, US census, Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer
1881
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer at 16 ½ E Washington
1882
Indianapolis, IN, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins as photographer at 16 ½ E Washington; res 126 W Fifth
1882 Sep
From newspaper obituary, Judkins moves to Bismarck and opens “Tent” studio on Main Street

1882 Nov 03
Bismarck (ND) Tribune, small news item says Judkins and Finn, photographers, are occupying a tent on Main Street
1882 Dec 15
Bismarck (ND) Tribune, small ad for Judkins and Finn, the “tent” photographers, to close for the winter
1883 thru 1890
Emmons County (ND) Record, small display ad runs monthly, sometimes twice monthly, for seven years
1883 May
From newspaper obituary, Judkins moves into studio on Third Street, later destroyed by fire
1883 May 04
Bismarck (ND) Tribune, small item says L D Judkins has parlor on Third Street
1883 Jun 15
Bismrck (ND) Tribune, small item says Judkins is taking views of streets and buildings to be for sale
1884
Bismarck, ND, city directory, Lorenzo D Judkins NOT listed

1888 Nov 09
Bismarck (ND) Weekly Tribune, Public Notice, Lorenzo D Judkins makwa land claim in ND
1889 Apr 26
Emmons (ND) County Record, news item says Carl Goodrich is assisting L D Judkins at the gallery
1889 Oct 25
Bismarck (ND) Weekly Tribune, news item tells of losses by fire of the Anderson Building on 3rd Street; Judkins Gallery was on upper story, loss was approx. 1000 dollars in negatives
1889 Nov 01
Bismarck (ND) Weekly Tribune, news item says the October fire was started by firebugs
1890 Mar 21
Emmons County (ND) Record, small ad for L D Judkins of Bismarck
1890 Mar 29
Burleigh, North Dakota, General Land Office record, Lorenzo D Judkins
1890 Aug 14
Bismarck, ND, state records, Lorenzo D Judkins dies at age 57

page from 1865 Havehill, MA, city directory
Indianapolis (IN) News - 03 Dec 1870
Indianapolis (IN) News - 21 Sep 1872
Indianapolis (IN) News - 15 Dec 1879
Bismarck (ND) Tribune - 03 Nov 1882
Bismarck (ND) Tribune - 15 Dec 1882
Emmons County (ND) Record - 1883 - 1890
This same ad ran at least monthly, usually three times a month for seven years.
Bismarck (ND) Tribune - 04 May 1883
Bismarck (ND) Tribune - 15 Jun 1883
Bismarck (ND) Weekly Tribune - 09 Nov 1888
Emmons County (ND) Record - 26 Jul 1889
Bismarck (ND) Weekly Tribune - 25 Oct 1889
Bismarck (ND) Weekly Tribune - 01 Nov 1889
Emmons County (ND) Record - 21 Mar 1890
Bismarck (ND) Weekly Tribune - 28 Mar 1890
Bismarck (ND) Weekly Tribune - 08 Aug 1890
Bismarck (ND) Weekly Tribune - 22 Aug 1890
photographer: L D Judkins
Bismarck, ND
example from North Dakota State Museum
reverse of card at left
photographer: L D Judkins
16 1/2 East Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN
example from auction site
reverse of card at left
photographer: L D Judkins
Bismarck
example from North Dakota State Museum
photographer: L D Judkins
Bismarck
exampel from auction site
photographer: L D Judkins
Third Street, Bismarck, D T
exampe from North Dakota State Museum
reverse of card at left



No evidence has been found that L D Junkins was ever in Seattle, WA.
This is perhaps another photorapher Judkins.

photographer: Judkins
Seattle, WA
example from auction site

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