Thomas John D Skewes

photographer: Skewis
222 W Fifth, Cincinnati, OH
example from contributor, J W Carson

Reverse of card at left

Thomas John D Skewes
(1846-1915)

1846 Jan 16
Redruth, Cornwall, England, Thomas John D Skewes is born
1847
T J D Skewes arrives in US
1850
Mamakating, NY, US census, T J D Skewes is resident
1870 Aug 10
Chatham, CN, US census, T John Skews, works at Brit Shop
1875
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, Thos J Skewes as Machinist, Nicholas Keenan NOT listed
1876, 1877
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, T J D Skewes as working at “Keenan and Skewes Gallery” 102 W Fifth; Keenan was living at this address and Skewes bds se corner of Walnut and Seventh
1878
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, T J D Skewes as photographer at 102 w Fifth; res 95 Claire
1879
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, T John D Skewes as photographer at 102 W Fifth; bds at 95 St Claire

1880
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, J D Skewes as photographer, 102 W Fifth
1880 Jun 14
Cincinnati, OH, US census, Thomas J D Skewes as photographer; res 102 W Sixth St; Wife Laura B, age 17
1881, 1882
Cincinnati, OH, city directory John D Skewes as photographer at 102 W Fifth
1883
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, J D Skewes as photographer with Skewes and Binkley at 102 W Fifth, res same; also listed Skewes and Binkley, picture frames etc, 93 Twelfth; (B K Binkley appears to be a partner at this time
1884, 1885
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, J D Skewes, photograph gallery at 222 W Fifth
1886
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, John D Skewes Photograph Galleries at 222 W Fifth, branch offices at NW cor Seventh and Vine and SW corner of Hopkins and Freeman Ave; Res 393 Clark

1887
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, John D Skewes as photographer at 222 W Fifth, 279 ½ Vine and 282 Hopkins; res Shilito St, Avondale; NOTE: also listed is Thos J D Skewes, PHYSICIAN at 96 W Seventy, res Avondale
1889
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, John D Skewes, photographer at 222 W Fifth, 279 ½ Vine and 282 Hopkins; res: San Diego, CA
1890
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, John Skewes as photographer at 222 W Fifth and NW cor Seventh and Vine; res San Diego, CA
1891
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, J D Skewes photographer, 279 1/5 Vine and 222 W Fifth; res San Diego CA
1892
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, John D Skewes studios NOT listed; Lusby’s Photo Gallery is listed at 222 W Fifth
1893
San Diego, CA, city directory, as Doctor T J D Skewes, physician and Surgeon; res 24th and Grant

1894
San Diego, CA, voter registration, Thomas J D Skewes as voter number 6736, physician
1895
San Diego, CA, city directory, T J D Skews, physician, office at 430 Logan’ res 24th and Grant
1900
San Diego, CA, voter registration, Thomas J D Skewes as voter number 326, physician
1903
San Diego, CA, city directory, T J D Skewes as physician at 602 Grant, res same; son T J D Skewes jr at same address
1903 Jan 13
San Diego, CA, city records, J D Skewes wife Laura B Gest dies
1904 Jan 13
San Diego, CA, J D Skewes wife Laura Belinda Gest dies
1908
San Diego, CA, voter registration, Thos J D Skewes, MD, age 64, as voter number 449
1910 Apr 28
San Diego, CA, US census, Thomas J D Skewes as physician with own practice; res 602 Grant Av

1912, 1913
San Diego, CA, city directory, T J D Skewes as physician at 602 Grant
1915
San Diego, CA, Thomas J D Skewes dies

To recap the studio locations for Thomas John D Skewes as a photographer:
1876 – 1883 (earliest gallery record found)
Studio at 102 W Fifth
1884 – 1885
Studio at 222 W Fifth
1886
Galleries at 222 W Fifth, NW cor Seventh & Vine and SW corner of Hopkins and Freeman Ave
1887
Galleries at 222 W Fifth, 279 ½ Vine and 282 Hopkins
1889
Galleries at 222 W Fifth, 279 ½ Vine and 282 Hopkins
1890
Galleries at 222 W Fifth and NW cor Seventh & Vine

1891
Galleries at 279 1/2 Vine and 222 W Fifth
1892
Gallery at 222 W Fifth is now Lusby Gallery
T J D Skewes is listed as a physician in San Deigo, CA, for the rest of his life



So the card at the top would have been done between 1884 and 1892 but since the “branch” office addresses are not included in the imprint, most likely it was done between 1884 and 1885 when there was only the 222 W Fifth location.

Advertising card from Skewes

Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer - 02 Oct 1886 Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer - 07 Sep 1888 Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer - 23 Sep 1888

Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer - 11 Oct 1888 Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer - 16 Oct 1888 Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer -28 Oct 1888

Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer - 24 Mar 1889 Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer - 12 May 1889 San Diego (CA) Record - 17 Sep 1896

photographer: Skewes
102 West Fifth Street
(finished between 1877 and 1883) example from contributor
WGulde of Vintage Irvington blog

photographer: Skewes
102 W Fifth, Cincinnati, OH
example from auction site
finished between 1876 and 1883

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
510 Madison, Covington, KY
example from auction site

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
510 Madison, Covington, KY
example from auction site

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
510 Madison, Covington, KY
example from auction site

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
510 Madison, Covington, KY
example from auction site

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
example from auction site
finished between 1884 and 1891

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth
example from auction site
finished between 1877 and 1883

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
510 Madison, Covington, KY
example from Marc Carlson Historical Website

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
510 Madison, Covington, KY
example from auction site

reverse of card at left

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
510 Madison, Covington, KY
example from auction site

reverse of card at left

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
510 Madison, Covington, KY
example from auction site

Reverse of card at left

photographer: Skewes
222 W Fifth and 270 1/2 Vine,Cincinnati, OH
510 Madison, Covington, KY
example from auction site

Reverse of card at left

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.

New examples and additional information 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.

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.

Thomas Jefferson Harper

photographer: Harper & Co.
Waco, Texas

Thomas Jefferson Harper
(1858-1941)

1858 Aug 20
Des Arc, AR, state records, Thomas Jefferson Harper is born to William Addison Harper and Lucy Ann Rich
1893 Jun 09
Texarkana (TX) Daily Democrat, Texas Photographers and Photo History, T J Harper as photographer in Texarkana, TX
1894 Jul 28
Monroe (LA) Weekly News Star, Texas Photographers, T J Harper as photographer
1894 Sep 29
Rayville (LA) Rayville Richland Beacon News, Texas Photographers, T H Harper as photographer from Monroe
1894 Nov 03
Rayville (LA) Richland Beacon News, Texas Photographers, T J Harper as photographer from Monroe
1894 Dec 26
Farmersville (LA) Gazette, Texas Photographers, T H Harper and Brother as photographer from Monroe
1895 Jan 26
Rayville (LA) Richland Beacon News, Texas Photographers, T J Harper as photographer from Monroe
1893, 1895
Monroe, LA, Louisiana Digital Library, cabinet card example dated to 1893-1895; others at same source are dated circa 1895

1896
Galveston, TX, city directory Thomas J Harper, photographer working for J B Willyerd; rms 2215 market
1897
Houston, TX, city directory, Harper & Co NOT listed
1898, 1899,
Galveston, TX, city directory Harper & Co, Thomas J Harper as photographer at 2215 Market
1899, 1900
Houston, TX city directory, Harper & Co of Galveston, TX, photographers 507 ½ Main, JC Bartlett, mgr
1900 Jun 03
Galveston, TX, US census Thomas J Harper as photographer; res 2215 Market
1901
Galveston, TX, city directory Harper & Co, Thomas J Harper as photographer at 2215 Market
1902, 1903, 1905, 1907
Houston, TX, city directory, Harper & Co. 507 ½ Main
1902
Waco, TX city directory, Harper & Co at 107 ½ 5th ; J C Bartlett, P B Donaldson as photographers; T J Harper NOT listed; (Harper is apparently living in Houston at this time) This appears to be the only year Harper & Co. operated in Waco, TX. Directories for the years before and after are unavailable, so possibly the firm opened in 1901 and closed in 1903. Ennis, TX, is just 70 miles north of Waco, TX.

1903
Austin, TX, city directory, Harper & Co NOT listed
1905
Austin, TX, city directory, Harper & Co NOT listed
1903, 1905
Galveston, TX, city directory Harper & Co, (Thomas J Harper of Houston TX) photographers 2215 Market; Miss H Gros, Mngr
1906
Galveston, TX, city directory NO photographer Harper, or Harper Studio listed; Miss Henrietta Gros is now running an art-crafts studio at 2215 Market; res 1210 22n
1907
Houston, TX, city directory, Harper & Co, Thomas J Harper, photographers, 2006 w 3rd
1908
Houston, TX, city directory, Harper & Co, Thomas J Harper, photographers, 507 ½ and 602 ½ Main; res 1843 Tale;
1909, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1917 (all available)
Temple, TX, city directory, NO photographer Harper or Harper Studio Listed
1909
Dallas, TX, city directory, Thomas J Harper as photographer at 336 Elm; res 507 s Akard
1910 Apr 21
Dallas, TX, US census Thomas J Harper as photographer; res 507 s Akard
1910
Dallas, TX, city directory - Pages missing.
1910
Houston, TX, city directory Harper & Co studio at 507 1/2 Main (operated apparently by Walter Swindowsky

1911, 1912
Houston, TX, city directory Harper & Co, Charles & Walter Swindowsky, photographers, 507 ½ Main; Thomas J Harper NOT listed in directory
1911, 1912, 1913
Dallas, TX, city directory, Thomas J Harper as photographer at 1504 ½ Elm; res 2112 s Ervay
1913
Houston, TX, city directory Harper & Co NOT listed; Thomas J Harper listed at rms 1504 McKinney av (Probably NOT the photographer); Swindowskys NOT listed
1920 Jan 09
Dallas, TX, US census T J Harper as photographer; res 319 Winnetka
1930 Apr 03
Dallas, TX, US census Thomas J Harper as photographer; res 2401 Knight Street
1940 Apr 18
Dallas, TX, US census Thomas J Harper as photographer; res 2401 Knight Street; daughter working in studio
1941 Mar 10
Dallas, TX, state records, Thomas J Harper dies at age 82

The earliest document showing T J Harper as photographer is the 1896 Galveston, TX, city directory. He opened branch studios and employed other photographers to operate them, all under the name “Harper and Co”. The Harper studios located in Galveston and Houston remained in operation until about 1912.

T J Harper apparently relocates to Dallas, TX, between 1908 and 1909. He remains there operating a photo studio until his death in 1941.

The difficulty with dating a cabinet hard from Thomas Jefferson Harper is that most of his cabinet cards are stamped only with “Harper and Company” or "T J Harper" but no actual street address.

If the card is stamped with Galveston or Houston, it was probably finished between1896 and 1912. But if the card says Dallas it was probably finished between 1908 and 1941, and quite likely only the early years of that period..

Note that is IS POSSIBLE that the cabinet card (top left corner) was done by William Lee Harper who was operating out of Ennis, TX. Waco, TX, is only about 70 miles from Ennis, TX, while Houston, TX, where T J Harper lived, is over 200 miles away. However in all examples found so far, William L Harper cards are stamped only "Harper" while Thomas J Harper cards are always imprinted "Harper and Co" or "T J Harper".

And it IS POSSIBLE that this is another Harper altogether.

The example at the right is NOT a cabinet card but is an example of the work done at the Harper studio, 1706 1/2 Elm Street, Dallas, TX, in the late 1920's, It is owner dated 1928. It is presented in a folder/easel style mounting.

example from contributor J Etie

photographer: Harper and Co
1706 1/2 Elm Street, Dallas, TX
example from J Etie

Waxahachie (TX) Daily Light -
11 Mar 1941

Photographer: Harper
Monroe, LA
example from Louisiana Digital Library
owner dated ca 1895

Photographer: Harper
Monroe, LA
example from Louisiana Digital Library
owner dated ca 1895

Photographer: Harper
Monroe, LA
example from Louisiana Digital Library
owner dated ca 1895

Photographer: Harper
Monroe, LA
example from Louisiana Digital Library
owner dated ca 1893-1895

photographer: Harper and Company
Galveston and Houston, TX
example from Ancestry.com

photographer: Harper and Company
2215 Market Street, Galveston, Tx
and
507 1/2 Main Street, Houston, TX
& Ennis, TX
example from Langdon Road

photographer: Harper and Company
2215 Market Street, Galveston, Tx
and
920 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX
example from M Snow

Note that the same rattan chair was used in the two baby pictures at the left. Both were possibly finished between 1896 and 1906 when there was a Harper studio at 2215 Market in Galveston, TX.

It can be shown that there was a Harper and Co. studio at 507 1/2 Main in Houston, TX, from 1899 to 1912. So the cabinet card stamped with both addresses must have been finished between 1899 and 1906.

No documents have been found yet to show when Harper had a studio in Austin, TX. Only a few Austin, TX, city directories are available.

photographer: Harper
Texarkana, TX
example from auction site

It is not known at this time which Harper had a studio in Texarkana, TX. Since the location is so far from the usual cities where the Thomas and William Harper usually operated, it may be another Harper entirely.

photographer: T J Harper
J M Willyard, operator
Bryan, TX
example from Charlie Perlitz

Probably finished around 1896 when Willyard was managing the Harper and Co Studio in Bryan, TX.

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.

New examples and additional information 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.

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.

Harriet Drum

Photographer: Drum
The same chair appears four times
on this page

Harriet Drum
---(1842-1904)
Oscar Drum
---(1860-1936)
Lottie Drum
---(1864-1946)

Harriet Drum and her son Oscar and his wife Lottie were all photographers. They all worked together at one point and after Harriet died, Oscar and Lottie carried on the business. They worked the area of southern Kansas and some of Oklahoma Indian Territory, and later Oklahoma State. Oscar Drum operated a railroad car studio between about 1900 and 1903, possibly as late as 1905.

1842
Ancestry tree, Harriet (Forrest) Drum was born
1860 Sep
Illinois, FindAGrave, Oscar Drum was born
1864
Pensylvania, FindAGrave, Charlotte “Lottie” (Bastian) Drum was born
1880 Jun 10
Fairfax Township, KS, US census, Harriet, husband Henry and son Oscar are working on a farm
1885 March 01
Longton, KS, Kansas state census, Harriet and Oscar as photographers

1888
Longton, KS, city directory, Harriet and Oscar as photographers; Henry not listed (This and 1962 are the only city directories available for this city.)
1888 Nov 23
Longton (KS) Gleaner small ad for Drum and Son to remain in town only two weeks, in the old Photo gallery, 1st door north of Zellars (This would be Harriet Drum and son Oscar)
1890 Apr 18
Neodesha (KS) Register news item says Oscar Drum has taken pictures there Sunday
1890 May 30
Neodesha (KS) Register says Oscar Drum and Fred Strebel went to Salt Lake City , UT, to do pictures of Mormons
1891
US Census of 1900 says Oscar and Lottie marry
1891 Apr 03
Longton (KS) Signal news item says Oscar Drum was in Grenola, KS, and is not going to Neodesha, KS
1893 Apr 07
Longton, (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum is moving his photo tent to the Indian Territory
1894 Apr 05
The Citizen (Howard, KS) news item says Oscar Drum is now located in Neodesha, KS, “the center of the new oil region”

1894 Jul 20
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum and wife are going to Osage country for photographs
1894 Aug 17
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum and wife have returned from the Indian country
1894 Nov 16. Nov 23
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item mentions Oscar Drum is now located in Pawjuska, I T (It is interesting to note that the Hutchings Railroad Photo Car is at Moline, KS, as advertised in the same newspapers)
1895 Feb 22, Apr 16
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum is still located in Pawhuska, I T
1895 Nov 08
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum and wife plan to stay in Longton for the winter
1896 Jan 24
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum has been in Moline (KS) for the past two weeks and is now in Longton, KS
1896 Apr 03, Apr 10
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum will be in Longton, KS, on Apr 08 for a few weeks before returning to Indian Territory

1896 Jun 26
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum and wife left for Bartlesville, Indian Territory, where they will stay a few months
1896 Oct 30
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum will be working in the Bone gallery a day or two each week
1896 Dec 11
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum will be moving to Howard, KS
1897 Jan 06, Jan 29
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum is still working in Howard, KS
1897 Nov 26
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum and wife have been in Colorado the past year
1897 Dec 24
Howard (KS) Courant news item says Oscar Drum is to open a gallery again in that city
1898
Ancestry site, Longton, KS, Oscar’s father dies
1898 Apr 01
Howard (KS) Courant news item says Oscar Drum is now at Neodesha, KS
1898 Aug 26
Howard (KS) Courant news item says Oscar Drum is now at Moberly, MO
1898 Oct 07
Longton (KS) News news item says C Barbour, Jr, will go to work for Oscar Drum in Norton, MO
1899 Jan 13
Kansas City (KS) Gazette news item says Oscar Drum, travelling photographer was arrested for working without a city license

1900 May 18
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum is not in Neosho Falls, KS
1900 Jun 05
Jackson, KS, US census Oscar, Lottie and Harriet as photographers
1900 Jul 06, Jul 20
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum is now at Strong City, KS, with his railroad car (Earliest mention of rail car)
1900 Aug
Drum's photo car leaves Strong City, KS (see note from C Fooks below)
1900 Sep 14
Photo Car in Elmdale, KS. (see note from C Fooks below)
1901 Jan and Feb
Drum's Photo Car is in Florence, KS (see note from C Fooks below)
1901 Feb 07
Cottonwood Falls (KS) News item says Drum photocar in still in Florence, KS
1901 Mar 29
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar drum is in Longton from Apr 06 to Apr 16
1901 Oct 25, Nov 01
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar and wife have the railroad car in Peabody, KS
1902 Jan 31, Feb 07, Mar 21
Longton (KS) News item says Oscar Drum is now in El Reno, OK
1902 Oct 10
Longview (KS) News item says Oscar Drum is now in Shawnee, OK
1902 Oct 31
Longton (KS) News item says Oscar Drum is now in Edmond, OK

1903 Mar 20, May 29
Longton (KS) News item says Oscar Drum photo car is now in Chandler, OK
1903 Jun 19, Jul 24
Longton (KS) News item says Oscar Drum photo car is now in Stroud, OK
1903 Jul 31
Longton (KS) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum is working in a tent in Longton, KS
1903 Oct 16, Nov 27, Dec 04
Howard (KS) Courant news item says Oscar Drum photo car is now at Sapulpa, I T (Note, this is the last mention found of the Drum photo car)
1904
Ancestry website, Oscar’s mother Harriet dies.
1905 Oct 20
Longton (KA) Gleaner news item says Oscar Drum is in Bartlesville, I T
1905 Dec 29
Longton (KS) News item says Oscar Drum has sold the business in Bartlesville, I T, and is building a home in Longton, KS
1908 Sep 04
Howard (KS) Courant news item says Oscar Drum has sold his gallery in Howard, KS, to Mrs Chas Childress
1910 Apr 22
Bartlesville, KS, US census, city directory Oscar listed as Commercial Photographer at Drum Studio, wife Lottie as no occupation; earliest city directory available
1910 Aug 12
Longton (KS) News item says Oscar Drum and wife are now in Bartlesville, OK

1910 Dec 15
Howard (KA) Courant news item says Oscar Drum is recovering from injuries in an automobile accident near Sedan, KS; mentions Drum is NOT operating a gallery in Howard, KS
1912
Bartlesville, OK, city directory Oscar is partnered with F. N. Griggs, Drum and Griggs, studio at 24 Masonic building; res 521 Jennings
1920
Bartlesville, OK, US Census Oscar and Lottie as photographers; 521 Jennings; (last mention of photography)
1925, 1927
Bartlesville, OK, city directory, Oscar with no occupation shown; res 521 Jennings
1929 - 1933
Bartlesville, OK, city directory, Oscar shown as farmer only; res 521 Jennings
1935
Bartlesville, OK, city directory, Oscar at 75, no occupation shown
1936
Bartlesville, OK, Find-a-Grave Oscar dies at age 76
1946
Find-a-Grave, Lottie dies at age 76

The photograph on the top left has no location shown on the card. It could have been finished any time between 1888 and about 1912.

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 23 Nov 1888

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 23 Nov 1888

Neodesha (KS) Register - 18 Apr 1888

Neodesha (KS) Register - 30 May 1890

Neodesha (KS) Regester - 07 Mar 1890

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 03 Apr 1891

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 07 Aug 1893

Howard (KS) Citizen - 05 Apr 1894

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 20 Jul 1894

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 17 Aug 1894

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 16 Nov 1894

Howard (KS) Courant - 23 Nov 1894

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 19 Apr 1895

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 08 Nov 1895

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 24 Jan 1896

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 03 APr 1896

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 26 Jun 1896

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 11 Dec 1896

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 08 Jan 1897

Howard (KS) Courant - 29 Jan 1897

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 26 Nov 1897

Howard (KS) Courant - 24 Dec 1897

Howard (KS) Courant - 01 Apr 1898

Howard (KS) Courant - 26 Aug 1898

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 07 Oct 1898

Kansas City (KS) Gazette - 13 Jan 1899

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 18 May 1900

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 06 Jul 1900

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 25 Jan 1901 Cottonwood Falls (KS) Chase Co. Leader -
07 Feb 1901

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 29 Mar 1901

Elmdale (KS) Reporter - 12 Apr 1901 Longton (KS) News - 25 Oct 1901

Howard (KS) Courant - 7 Feb 1902

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 21 Mar 1902

Longton News and Elk Falls Reflector -
10 Oct 1902
Longton (KS) News - 31 Oct 1902

Longton (KS) News - Mar 20 1903

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 03 Apr 1903

Longton (KS) News - 19 Jun 1903

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 31 Jul 1903

Howard (KS) Courant - 16 Oct 1903

Howard (KS) Courant - 29 Jul 1904

Longton (KS) News - 29 Dec 1905

Howard (KS) Courant - 04 Sep 1908

Howard (KS) Courant - 15 Dec 1910

Sedan (KS) Times Star - 22 Dec 1910

Longton (KS) Gleaner - 31 may 1912

photographer: Drum
"Portraits and Views"
(probably from he photo-car;
no location is imprinted on the card.
example from
The University of Tulsa Archival Catalog

Photographer: Drum,
Rail Road Photo Car
This same chair appears
about six times on this page

example contributed by S Tennant

example contributed by S Tennant

photographer: Drum
RailRoad Photo Car
example from contributor MThurston (A very unusual portrait!)

Update 30 Jul 2018:
Further evidence that the Drum family used a photo car. The example below is imprinted Lamar, Colorado. Newspaper items say that Drum and wife visited Colorado in 1897 and Drum toured Western Kansas and Colorado late in 1912.

example from auction site

Update 24 Aug 2018:
Following are some examples from the personal collection of S Tennant.

photographer Drum
example contributed by S Tennant

photographer Drum
example contributed by S Tennant

All of the following from the collection of S Tennant

See the page for William H Martin

From contributor S Patterson

lower right corner
enlargement of Blind Stamp showing photographer name

photographer: Drum
Nowata, IT (Indian Territory)
A fine review of Oscar Drum is at
the High Shrink site

photographer: Drum Railroad Photo Car

reverse of card at left

Hello,

Thank you for your work on the Drums' photography, particularly for the clippings from the Longton Gleaner. I thought you might like to look at the photograph of Julia Maud Breese (1887-1904) of Elmdale KS taken by Drum in 1900. You probably have seen the various photos of her father's (L. B. Breese's) general store in Elmdale. Her mother compiled Julia: A Memoir, published by R. R. Donnelley in 1905 after Julia died of consumption at the age of 17 in March 4, 1904. On the back of the photo, the last line (below 1900) states "died 3 1/2 yrs. later," which pretty much locks in the September 1900 date.


C Fooks

I want to update the information I sent you several months ago about the Drum photograph of Julia Breese.

Drum's Rail Road Photo Car left Strong City in late August, 1900.

According to Drum's ad in the September 14, 1900 issue of the Elmdale Register, he was doing a very good business in Elmdale, about 7 miles west of Strong City.

It seems most likely then that Drum took Julia's photo in September, 1900. Since she was born on February 15, 1887, she was 13 years and 7 months old in Drum's photo.

Unfortunately, the other 3 issues for September as well as all 4 issues for October and all 4 issues for November are missing from the file of the Elmdale Register for 1900, so I do not know exactly when Drum's Rail Road Photo Car arrived in and when it left Elmdale.

I do know that his Photo Car was in nearby Florence in January and February, 1901. Obviously, he was moving westward on the A.T. and Santa Fe line.)

C. Fooks
(timeline updated 20201121)

Also see the excellent video about this photo on YouTube Here.

photographer: Drum
Railroad Photo Car
example from Danny Keltner
"Gail, Jesse Ray and Vey Pearson -1900"

Been trying to find out information on this photo, I'm so glad you have your collection online. This was in my grandmothers belongings so I believe it is her on the left. She was born in 1895 in Sumner Missouri and the family was moving back to Kansas City around 1900.

I notice the same chair was used in another photograph on your page.

Thank- you for helping me solve this mystery. Danny Keltner.

From contributor LisaK

John and Effie Jones
Identified by the owner, G Carter.

Example from GCarter of Houston, TX

photographer: O Drum
Oawhuska, OT
example from auction site
(from around early 1895 when Oscar Drum was in Pawhuska. OT)

reverse of card at left

photographer: Drum
Nowata, IT,
example from Highshrink.com

reverse of card at left

photographer: Drum
Parson's Gallery
Pawhuska, O T
example from auction site

photographer: Drum
(no location given so probably from the railroad car period)
example from auction site

photographer: Drum
No location shown
example from contributor BBennett
(Note: The imprint in this example differers from any other on this page.)

photographer: Drum Rail Road Photo Car
example from contributor J Johnston

photographer: Drum
Traveling Photographer
example from contributor R Stansifer

reverse design of card at left
owner dated at 1890

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.

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