Cabinet Card Photographers: November 2023

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Isaac Cook Lee of Danville, PA

photographer: Lee
Danville, PA
example from LOST GALLERY

Be assured there was more than one photographer named Lee in the cabinet card era. And there was more than one in the Danville, PA, area. Sorting them out was difficult but following is the current findings. Some of these have been included in the timeline following.

Isaac Cook Lee
(1860-1920)

1860 Feb 21
Pottsville, PA, state records, Isaac Cook Lee is born to Ralph Robinson Lee and Mary Elizabeth Cook
1861
West Chester, PA, city directory, Isaac Lee at 180 Gay
1865
Gopsill State Business Directory, I C Lee is NOT listed
1880 Jun 09
Clearfield, PA, US census, Isaac Lee as Lumberman (Clearfield, PA, is 110 miles west of Danville, PA)

1883
Philadelphia. PA, city directory, Isaac Lee as wool sorter; res 5040 Torr Av; (Philadelphia, PA, is 250 miles from Danville, PA)
1888
Evansville, IN, city directory, Isaac Lee as photographer; res 1501 Fulton (Evansville, IN, is over 700 miles from Danville, PA)
1892
Montour, PA, state records, I C Lee and Lulu Litel are married (Montour, PA, is 7 miles from Danville, PA)
1898 Oct 13
Danville (PA) Morning News, item says I C Lee is occupying the photograph gallery of the late Charles Colburn
1900 Mar 27
Danville (PA) Morning News, item says B J Schreyer, employee of I C Lee, photographer, has returned to Williamsport
1900 May 27
Danville (PA) Morning News, item says I C Lee is photographer in Danville, PA

1900 Jun 15
Danville, PA, US census, Isaac C Lee as photographer
1900 Jul 26
Danville (PA) Monitor American, item says a daughter is born to I C Lee, on Mill Street
1901 Jan 08
Danville (PA) Morning News, item says photographer I C Lee has moved into a residence on West Mahoning st
1901 Oct 29
Danville (PA) News, item says Daughter born to I C Lee has died
1904
Philadelphia, PA, city directory, Isaac Lee as Wine dealer, res 2800 Ormes; Not listed under photographers
1905 Jan 17
Danville (PA) News, item says Son is born to I C Lee at home on West Mahoning Street
Danville, PA, newspaper ads are rare for the Lee Studio before 1906 but increase substantially after. 1906 alone finds more than 200.

1906 Apr 24, May 01
Danville (PA) Morning News, small ads for Lee’s Studio
1906 Aug 16, Dec 14
Danville (PA) Morning News, small ad for Lee Gallery at 232 Mill Street
1907 Jul 08, Aug 03
Danville (PA) Morning News, small at for Lee’s Studio (other ads give the address, 232 Mill Street
1908 Apr 20
Danville (PA) Morning News, small ad for “ICLEE” studio at 232 Mill St

1909
Danville (PA) morning News, Lee Studio is featured in about 100 small ads this year
1910 Apr 15
Danville Borough, PA, US census, I C Lee as photographer; res 232 Mill St
1911 Mar 15
Danville, PA, Morning News, item mentions Lee Studio at 232 Mill St
1912 Mar 29
Danville, PA, Morning News, item places Lee Studio at the “old stand”

1913 Jul 25
Danville (PA) Morning News, long item describing when I C Lee was struck by lightning
1913 Aug 09, Aug 18
Danville (PA) Morning News, items tell of recovery of I C Lee
1914 Nov 24
Danville (PA) Morning News, small ad for Lee Studio, no address shown
1915 Aug 27
Danville (PA) Morning News, small ad for Lee Studio, no address shown
1916 Apr 29
Danville (PA) Morning News, small at for Lee Studio at “old stand”

1917 Jul 11
Danville (PA) Morning News, small ad for Lee Studio, no address shown
1919 Dec 18 and 19
Danville (PA) Morning News, small ad for Lee and Son studio
1920
Chester, PA, city directory, Isaac C Lee as “Opr”: res 61 W 10th; NOT listed in business section; (Chester, PA, is more than 150 miles from Danville, PA)
1920 Nov 24
Harrisburg (PA) Evening News, small item announces the death of Isaac C Lee; one cause of death being the lightning strike seven years prior

Danville (PA) Morning News -
13 Oct 1898

Danville (PA) Morning News -
27 Mar 1900

Danville (PA) Morning News -
26 Jul 1900

Danville (PA) News -
29 Oct 1900

Danville (PA) Morning News -
08 Jan 1901

Danville (PA) Morning News -
12 Jan 1905

Danville (PA) Morning News -
17 Apr 1906

Danville (PA) Morning News -
24 Apr 1906

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01 May 1906

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16 Aug 1906

Danville (PA) Morning News -
14 Dec 1906

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Danville (PA) Morning News -
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Danville (PA) Morning News -
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Danville (PA) Morning News -
29 Mar 1912

Danville (PA) Morning News -
25 Jul 1913

Danville (PA) Morning News -
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Danville (PA) Morning News -
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Danville (PA) Morning News -
24 Nov 1914

Danville (PA) Morning News -
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Danville (PA) Morning News -
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Danville (PA) Morning News -
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Danville (PA) Morning News -
19 Dec 1919

Harrusburg (PA) Evening News -
24 News 1920

photographer: Lee
232 Mill St, Danville, PA
example from auction site

reverse of card at left

photographer: Lee
Danville, PA
example from auction site

Below are some examples from other photographers named Lee

photographer: Lee
Phillipsburg, NJ
example from auction site

photographer: J L Lee
Phillipsburg, NJ
example from auction site

photographer: Lee
N W Cor Fifth and Penn, Reading, PA
example from auction site

photographer: W J Lee
Rochester, NY
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.

This is a work always in progress.

Additional 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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Monday, November 20, 2023

Hillyard and Co. of Honey Grove, TX

photographer: Hillyard and Co
Honey Grove, TX
example from LOST GALLERY

photographer: Hillyard and Co
Honey Grove, TX
example from LOST GALLERY (enhanced version)

Nothing has been found about a Hillyard and Co of Honey Grove, TX. No other examples have turned up.

The dominant photographer in Honey Grove appears to have been Hope Guthrie. Many well preserved examples have been found. But, here again, no newspaper mentions have been found. Also there were no city directories found. So far, only one mention of Hope Guthrie has been found. This is in David Haynes “Catching Shadows”: Hope Guthrie, 1896-97, Honey Grove, TSG.

Until something turns up on this card by Hillyard and Co (photographers), not much can be speculated as to dates of operation in Honey Grove, TX. Research ongoing. Suggestions welcome.

Since no other examples of the work from Hillyard and CO of Honey Grove have been found, here are some example from other photographer from that city in texas

photographer: Hope Guthrie
Honey Grove, TX
example from Texas History.edu

photographer: Hope Guthrie
Honey Grove, TX
example from Thanatose.net

photographer: Hope Guthrie
Honey Grove, TX
example from Texas History.edu

photographer: Hope Guthrie
Honey Grove, TX
example from Fannin org

The cabinet card at the right was the only other example found of a photographer in Honey Grove, TX.

photographer: J R Keasler
Honey Grove, TX
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.

This is a work always in progress.

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

Friday, November 17, 2023

Julius Hebbel of Baltimore, MD

photographer; Hebbel
409 and 411 N Gay, Baltimore, MD
example from LOST GALLERY
(probably finished around 1900 or after)

reverse of card at left

Julius Hebbel
(1853-1905)

1853 Apr 28
Baltimore (MD) Sun obituary, Julius Hebbel is born to Ernest Hebbel and Elisabeth Rullmann in Ortenberg, Wetteraukreis, Hessen, Deutschland
1870
Baltimore, MD, city directory Julius Hebbel NOT listed; Mrs Madeline Hebbel as “Confect’ry” at 160 Orleans
1871, 1872
Baltimore, MD, city directory Julius Hebbel NOT listed
1873, 1874
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer at 19 E Baltimore, res: cor Lombard and Central
1875
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel NOT listed
1877
Baltimore (MD) Sun Obituary, Julius Hebbel begins photography career this year, age 24

1880
Baltimore, MD, city directory (scrambled pages) Julius Hebbel NOT listed
1881, 1882, 1883, no 1884 available,
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel NOT listed
1885
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as bookkeeper, 148 e Lombard
1886, 1887, 1888
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel NOT listed
1889, 1890
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer at 409 n Gay
1895
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer at “327” and 409 n Gay; res 1610 e Biddle
1896
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer at 409 N Gay; res 1610 E Biddle 1897
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer with “Hebbel and Petri” at 409 N Gay; res 1610 E Biddle (also listed as Hebbel and Petri, grocers, 1731 N Gay)

1898
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer at 409 N Gay; res Franklin Ter circa Old York Rd
1899
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer at 327 and 409 N Gay; res Franklin Ter c Old York rd
1900, 1901, 1902
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer at 409 Gay; res 513 Franklin Ter

1903
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer at 321 N Gay; res same
1904
Baltimore, MD. city directory. Julius Hebbel as photographer at “327” and 409 N Gay; res 321 Gay
1905
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel as photographer at 321 and 409 N Gay; res 321 N Gay

1905 Nov 23
Baltimore (MD) Sun, obituary, FindaGrave, Julius Hebbel dies at age 52
1906, 1907, 1908, 1907, 1909
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Julius Hebbel STUDIO at 321 N Gay, continues managed by Emil Erni
1910
Baltimore, MD, city directory, Hebbel studio NOT listed

It appears by city directory listings that Julius Hebbel was a photographer from 1873 until 1905.

Recap of the studio addresses:

1873, 1874 – 19 E Baltimore
1875 to 1888 – Julius Hubbel NOT listed in directory as photographer
1889 to 1905 – 321 and 409 N Gay (numbers were sometimes listed 327 or 407)
1906 to 1909 - managed by Emil Erni
After his death, the studio, managed by Emil Erni, continued under the name Hebbel until 1909.
There are many examples of the Hebbel Gallery available.

Baltimore (MD) Sun - 07 Jun 1886

Baltimore (MD) Sun - 02 Apr 1892

Baltimore (MD) Sun - 30 Apr 1891

Baltimore (MD) Sun - 25 Apr 1900

Deutsche Correspondent - 08 02 1905

Baltimore (MD) Sun - 24 Nov 1905

photographer: Hebbel
Baltimore
example from auction site

photographer: Hebbel
409 & 411 N Gay St, Baltimore
example from Baltimore Wordpress

photographer: Hebbel
409 & 411 b Gay, Baltimore
example from auction site

reverse of the card at left

photographer: Hebbel
409 N Gay St, Baltimore
example from Baltimore Wordpress

photographer: Hebbel
409 & 411 N Gay St, Baltimore
example from Baltimore Wordpress

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.

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