Jacob Becker

photographer: Urlin and Becker
Wilshire Bldg, Cleveland, OH
example from the Cleveland Public Library
(No example of a cabinet card credited to Jacob Becker without any partner has been found.)

Jacob Becker
(1851- 1929)

1851 Oct
Ohio, According to the 1900 US census, this is the birth year for Jacob Becker
NO Jacob Becker, photographer, records have been found before 1889
1889 Sep 18
Cuyahoga County, OH, state records, Jacob Becker and Minnie C Klein are married
1890 Oct 05
Cleveland, OH, state records, son Urlin Kenna Becker is born
1891
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Urlin and Becker as photographer 94-100 Wilshire bldg., 209 Superior (Partnership with George C Urlin)
1892 Aug 27
Cleveland, OH, state records, daughter Virginia Nell Becker is born
1892
Pifer (George N) and Becker as photographers (successors to Urlin and Becker) 209 Superior
Notation: George C Urlin has moved to Columbus, OH, and is now in the real estate business

1893, 1894
Pifer and Becker as photographers (successors to Urlin and Becker) 209 Superior
1894
Cleveland, OH, state records, son Charles A Becker is born
1894
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Jacob Becker as photographer with Pifer and Becker; res Lake View Av
1895, 1896
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Pifer and Becker as photographers (successors to Urlin and Becker) 209 Superior
Sometime between late 1896 and early 1897, Jacob Becker and family move from Cleveland to Massillon, OH
1897 Oct 05
Massillon (OH) Item, newspaper item says Jacob Becker of Cleveland has purchased gallery in Massillion, OH and will move in October 06, 1897
1900 Jun 14
Massillon, OH, US census, Jacob Becker as photographer; res 35 Mill St
1901 is the earliest available city directory
1901, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1909 (NO 1910)
Massillon, OH, city directory, Jacob Becker as photographer 49-53 E Charles; res same

1910 Apr 10
Massillon, OH, US census, Jacob Becker as photographer, res 34 Mill St
1911, 1915, 1917, 1920
Massillon, OH, city directory, Jacob Becker’s Studio, 201 E Charles, cor of Park Row; res same
1920 Jan 07
Massillon, OH, US census, Jacob Becker, gallery; Becker as proprietor, Guy St John as manager at 201 E Charles, cor Park Row; res 304 Park Row
1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924
Massillon, OH, city directories are not available
1922
Massillion (OH) Evening Independent item says Mr and Mrs Jacob Becker of Miami, FL are visiting the city
1925
Massillion, OH, city directory, Jacob Becker NOT listed in Business Section
1927, 1929
Massillion, OH, city directory, Jacob Becker NOT listed in Res or Bus section
No records on Jacob Becker have been found for after 1920
1929 May 08
Miami (FL) News item says Jacob Becker died at age 77

Hamilton (OH) Evening Journal - 10 Aug 1893

Masillon (OH) Item - 05 Oct 1897

Miami (FL) News - 24 May 1924

Miami (FL) News - 09 May 1929 Miami (FL) Herald - 09 29 1929

Massillion (OH) Evening Independent -
27 Feb 1933

Massillion (OH) Evening Independent - 23 Jun 1933

Photographer: Urlin and Becker
Wilshire Building, Cleveland, OH
example from auction site
(This card would have been finished in 1891)

reverse of the card at the left

photographer: Pifer and Becker
Wilshire Buliding, Cleveland, OH
example from auction site
(This card would have been finished between 1892 and 1896)

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.

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.

Franz Xavier Becker

photographer: F Becker
771 Lorain, Cleveland, OH
example from auction site
This card was finished between 1899 and 1905.

Franz Xavier Becker
(1865 - 1928)

1865 Mar 31
Germany, FindAGrave, US passport, F C Becker is born to Christian Beckar and Maria K Baum
1882
US census of 1900 – F X Becker arrives in US at age 17
1886
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Becker Brothers, Frank or William NOT listed
1886 Aug 01
Cuyahoga County, OH, state records, F K Becker and Anna M Schier are married
1887
Cleveland, OH, Becker Brothers as photographers, 783 Lorain; Franz X and William Becker res 739 Lorain
1888
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Becker Brothers as photographers, 738 (sic) Lorain; res 739 Lorain
1889
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank Becker as photographer at 739 Lorain; res same
1890, 1891
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank Becker as photographer 821 Lorain; res same

1892, 1893, 1894, 1895
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Becker Frank, bus 821 Lorain, res same
1896
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank Becker as photographer, pictures and picture frames at 821 Lorain
1897, 1898
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank Becker as photographer at 821 Lorain
1899
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank Becker as photographer at 771 Lorain (Large Ground Studio)
1900
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank Becker as photographer at 771 Lorain
1900 Jun 01
Cleveland, OH, US census Frank Becker is photographer at 771 Lorain
1901
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank Becker as photographer at 771 Lorain res same
1902, 1903
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank Becker as photographer at 772 (sic) Lorain res same
1904, 1905
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank Becker as photographer at 771 Lorain

1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Franz X Becker as photographer at 3252 Lorain
1910 Apr 28
Cleveland, OH, US census, Frank X Becker as photographer at 3252 Lorain
1911
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Franz X Becker as photographer at 3252 Lorain
1912
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Franz X Becker as photographer at 3253 Lorain; res same;

This is the last time Franz Becker is listed in the business pages.

1913
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank X Becker as photographer at 7033 Superior; res 2073 Lorain
1914
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank “H” Becker as photographer at 2926 Lorain; res 2073 W 38th SW
1915
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank X Becker res 2073 W 38th, “photographer” NOT mentioned

1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank X Becker as photographer, res 2073 W 38th
1920 Jan 07
Cleveland, OH, US census, Frank “C” Becker as photographer at 2073 38th St
1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926
Cleveland, OH, city directory, Frank X Becker as photographer at 2073 W 38th
1927, 1928
Cleveland, OH, city directory, directory incomplete no listing available
1928 Oct 15
Cleveland, OH, FindAGrave, Franz Xavier Becker dies at age 63

Recap of locations for Franz X Becker
783 Lorain – 1887 (as Becker Brothers)
739 Lorain - 1888 to 1889
821 Lorain – 1890 to 1898
711 Lorain - 1899 to1905
3253 Lorain – 1906 to 1912
7033 Superior – 1913
2926 Lorain – 1913 to 1914
2073 38th – 1915 to 1928


Franz Xavier Becker is NOT the Becker in the partnership of Urlin and Becker, or Pifer and Becker. That was Jacob Becker, who lived in Cleveland, then moved to Massillon, OH, in 1896.

Ad from Cleveland, OH, city directrory 1887 Cleveland (OH) Wochenbla newspaper -
19 Jul 1913

photographer: Franz Becker
Ettlingen (Ger)
This is probably NOT the same Franz Becker

photographer: Frank Becker
821 LOraine St, Cleveland, OH example from contributor

reverse of card at left

photographer: Frank Becker
821 LOraine St, Cleveland, OH example from contributor

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.

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.

Belle Johnson

photographer: Miss Belle Johnson,
Monroe City, Missouri
example from LOST GALLERY

There is a detailed biography of
Belle Johnson at Wikipedia.

There is also a fine Facebook Group

And there is a fine coveage at
Missouri PhotoJournalism Hall Of Fame

This page will be used for additional examples contributed.

photographer: Miss Belle Johnson
Monroe, MO
example from Monroe Mogen Web

photographer: Miss Belle Johnson
Monroe City, MO
example from Monroe Mogen Web

photographer: Belle Johnson
Monroe City, MO
example from Facebook series

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.

Grand Central Studio

Photographer: Grand Central Photographic Studio
S E Corner Oneida St and Brider
33-35 Oneida St.
(Studio Name is printed very faintly on front and back)

Photographer: Grand Central Studio
33-35 Oneida Street
Milwaukee, Wis
Nothing on reverse

Harry S Sutter
(1853-1889)

1853 Jun 11
Switzerland, Harry S Sutter is born
1870 Jun 05
Milwaukee, WI, US census, Harry (Henry) Sutter living with mother at age 17
1873, 1874
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, Harry S Sutter NOT listed
1875
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, Harry S Sutter as photographer at 128 Wisconsin; bds 449 Jackson
1876
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed,Harry S Sutter as photographer at 128 Wisconsin; bds at 452 Jackson
1877
Milwaukee, Wi, city directory, Harry S Sutton as photographer at 128 Wisconsin; res 646 Milwaukee
1878, 1879
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, Harry S Sutter as photographer at 128 Wisconsin; bds Kirby House
1879 Oct 04
Racine, Wi, state records, Harry S Sutter and Helen V Laphano are married

1880
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed, Harry S Sutter as photographer at 128 Wisconsin; res same; business pages same
1881
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, Harry S Sutter as photographer at 128 Wisconsin; res bds 449 Jackson; business pages, Sutter Studio at 128 Wisconsin
1882, 1883, 1884, 1885
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed, Harry S Sutter as photographer at 128 Wisconsin; res 1135 Sycamore; bus pages Harry S Sutter at 128 Wisconsin only
1882 Oct 04
Milwaukee, WI, state records, daughter Florence Sutter is born
1886, 1887
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed, Harry S Sutter as photographer at 128 Wisconsin; res 1135 Sycamore; bus pages Harry S Sutter at 128 Wisconsin and 35 Oneida
1888
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed; Harry S Sutter listed as photographer a 128 Wisconsin; res 1135 Sycamore; business pages list Harry S Sutter at 128 Wisconsin and 33-35 Oneida

1889 Jun 01
Milwaukee, WI, state records, Find a Grave, Harry Sutter dies at age 35
1889
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed; Helen Sutter (wid of Harry Sutter), photo atelier, at 128 Wisconsin and 33 Oneida; residence at 112 Mason in residence pages; Mrs Helen Sutter at 128 Wisconsin in business pages; NO studio listed at 33 Oneida in business pages;
1890
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed; Mrs Helen Sutter listed at 35 Oneida
1891
Milwaukee, WI, city directory,
GRAND CENTRAL STUDIO
listed at 33-35 Oneida (business pages only) Clearly operated by Mrs Sutter.
1892
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed; photographer Julius Goeldner at 33-35 Oneida

1893, 1894
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed; photographer Julius Goeldner at 35 Oneida
1895,1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed; photographer Goeldner and Toser at 35 Oneida
1901
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed, photographer Julius Gerhimer at 35 Oneida
1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed
1908
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, NO Grand Central Studio listed
1909, 1910
Milwaukee, WI, city directory, Grand Studio at 409 Mitchell is listed -Stanley Zalewski and Joseph Watczak, photographers (added here to show difference in name, address)

The only time there was a studio named "Grand Central Studio" at 33 Oneida, in Milwaukee, was in 1891. It was operated by Mrs. Helen V. Sutter. In 1899 she remarried and moved from Milwaukee.

A hint from commenter Anthony Reichardt (see below) The name of the little girl in the photograph at the top is "Mary Fischer".

Ad from 1875 Milwaukee, WI, city directory Appleton (WI) Post - 29 Sep 1882

Neenay (WI) Daily Times - 30 Nov 1885 Waukesha (WI) Gournal - 08 Jun 1889 Waukesha (WI) Journal - 19 Oct 1889

photographer: Grand Central Studio
33-35 Oneida St, Milwaukee, WI
example from Forgotten Faces

photographer: Grand Central Studio
Broadway and Clinton St, Milwaukee, Wi
example from auction site

photographer: Grand Central Studio
Broadway and Clinton St, Milwaukee, Wi
example from auction site

photographer Goeldner
33 and 35 Oneida st, Milwaukee, WI
example from auction site
finished after 1892 when
Goeldner took over the location

photographer Goeldner
33 and 35 Oneida st, Milwaukee, WI
example from auction site
finished after 1892 when
Goeldner took over the location

Other studios using the GRAND CENTRAL name

photographer: Mrs Hedlen Sutter - Grand Central Studio
1013-1015 Walnut, Kansas City, MO
example from auction site

photographer: OBrien - Grand Central Studio
Waukeshaw, WI
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.
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.

Fayette W Knight

Photographer: Knight's Studio
Greenville, Tex.

Fayette W Knight
No biographical information has been found to date

Sources, city directories; US census; “Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide” by Peter E. Palmquist and Thomas R. Kailbourn; “Lens on Texas Frontier” by Lawrence T. Jones III; Texas State Gazetteer; Brazos Past: Waco’s wild world of 19th century photography by Terri Jo Ryan; Ancestry.com; Catching Shadows: A Directory of 19th-Century Texas Photographers,” by David Haynes

Timeline
1866
Memphis, TN, NO listing for F W Knight

1867
Memphis, TN, (src: Ancestry.com) as photographer for Bingham and Brother, room 218 Main
1868
Memphis, TN, NO listing for F W Knight
1872
Austin, TX, city directory not listed
1874-1876
Austin, TX, (src: Brazos Past) as photographer partnered with William David Jackson
1878-1879
(src: Photographers Mississippi to Continental Divide) “John J Mullins was in partnership with Fayette W. Knight in the Mullins and Knight photographic studio at 55 ½ Austin Street, Waco, (TX) in 1878 and 1879.” (src: Brazos Past adds 1880) (src: Catching Shadows
1880
US census Waco, TX, William T Muse listed as photographer at 104 Austin st, Waco; George Johnson as photographer at 107 n 4th;
1882-1883
Texas State Gazetteer, Page 477, Greenville, TX, as photographer (listed as F M Knight)

1884
TSG page 407 Greenville, TX, as photographer

1884 Mar 27
McKinney (TX) Democrat news item about Greenville, TX, fire, losses to businesses include F W Knight
1884-1885
Greenville, TSG as photographer (Listed as Fayette W. Knight)

1885 (circa)
photograph by Fayette W Knight, of the street in Greenville, TX, showing Bush’s Drug store with Knight’s Gallery on the second floor (src: Lens on Texas Frontier)
1885 Jul 07
Dallas (TX) Daily Herald -Greenville news- F W Knight is selected for Grand Jury duty
1887
Greenville (TX) Banner small ad “Dr T W Blanchard, dentist, in Knight’s Gallery, over Bush’s Drug Store, Greenville, Texas”

1890-1891
TSG page 580 Greenville, TX, as photographer
1890 Nov 13
Fort Worth Weekly Gazette news item from Graham, Young County, TX, F W Knight has been elected district and county clerk (is this the same Knight?)
1892
TSG Greenville, TX (src; Catching Shadows) as photographer
1892 May 12
Southern Mercury blurb ad for newspaper quoting F W Knight
1895 Jun 01
Greenville (TX) Banner J A Lindgren takes over Knight Gallery moving from Cleburne, TX
1898-1899
Greenville, TX, business guide as F “A” Knight (src: Catching Shadows)
1907 Jun 21
Abilene (TX) Reporter mention F W Knight as delegate to Central West Texas Association of Commercial Clubs (the same Knight?)

At the right is an example from photographer Lindgren, apparently done after June 1895 when Lindgren took over the Greenville studio from Knight

Photographer: Knight's Studio
Greenville, Tex.
example from the Flickr Collection of mj aux

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.

John Thomas Wilde

photographer J T Wilde
Piedmont, WV
example from LOST GALLERY

reverse of card at left

John Thomas Wilde
(1839 – 1897)

1839 Dec 23
Baltimore, MD, J T Wilde is born to J WF Wilde and Margaret Augusta Wilde
1860 Jul 01
Baltimore, MD, US civil war draft, John T Wild(e) as photographer
1863
Baltimore, MD, city directory, John T Wilde NOT listed
1870 Jun 20
Demopolis, AL, US census, John Wilde as Artist; also listed is J W F Wilde (father) as prop photo rms
1878
West VA, various-city directory, NO Piedmont listed
1880
Selma, AL, city directory, J Wild NOT listed
1880 Jun 08
Piedmont, WV, US census, John T Wilde as photographer; enumerator lists him as “lame”
1884
Cumberland, MD, city directory, J T Wilde NOT listed under photographers

1890
Cumberland, MD, city directory, J T Wilde NOT listed
1893
McKeesport, PA, city directory, as photographer at over First National Bank in Piedmont, WV
1895
Cumberland, MD, city directory, J T Wilde as photographer in Piedmont
1895
McKeesport, PA, city directory, J T Wilde NOT listed
1897
Cumbrland, MD, city directory, J T Wilde as photographer on 2nd, in Piedmont, WV
1897 Dec 17
Piedmont, W V, newspaper obituary, John Thomas Wilde dies in his studio at age 57

John Thomas Wilde didn’t leave many tracks. Very little documentation was found of his years in photography. One obituary found alludes to his poor health and indebtedness.

The card shown here is light weight board with straight cut edges. An estimate of the date would be between 1880 and 1897 but most likely early in that period.

1893 McKeesport, PA, City Directory ad 1893 Cumberland, md, City Directory ad

The Baltimore (MD) Sun - 20 Jan 1897

The Baltimore (MD) Sun - 22 Jan 1897

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.