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NON-DEFINITIVE LIST OF LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Name Location Beginning Date Ending Date

Blackhall, John Hobart 18521 18932

Haase, August Hobart 11/28/19023 1912-134

Hallberg, A.A. Hobart 12/4/19195

Hayward, W.H. and E.J. (partnership) Valparaiso Ca. 18726 18737

Hayward, W.H. (Warren) Valparaiso Ca. 18738 18759

Hayward, W.H. Crown Pt. Sept. 187710

(?)191011

191712

McLellan, John W. Valparaiso 187313 1885?14

Merrill, A.O. Hobart 11/28/190215

Mudge, Marion M. Valparaiso Ca. 188716

193717

Naumann, J.J. (John) Hobart 10/30/191318 Jan. 1918?19

Portmess, J.E. (Jacob) Hobart By Sept. 188920 May 191721

Showman, L.K.(?) (Showman's Gallery) Hobart 189322

? post-189823

Vilmer, William E. Crown Pt. 188624 191825

1 "The Blackhall Mansion," The Hobart Herald26 Aug. 1954. 1852 given as the date of his coming to Hobart.2 Ibid. 1893 given as the date of his retirement.3 "Local Drifts,"Hobart Gazette 28 Nov. 1902. Haase buys A.O. Merrill's studio in Hobart.4 "August Haase Studio Sold to J.J. Naumann,"Hobart News 30 Oct. 1913. Articles states Hobart had been without a photographer for

about a year because Haase's failing eyesight had caused him to give up photography and take a job in a Gary mill.5 Advertisement.Hobart News 4 Dec. 1919.6 Ball,Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, With a Compendium of History 1834 1904(1904).7 Ibid.8 Ibid. W.H. Hayward bought out the interest of E.J. Hayward and continued business in Valpo.9 Ibid.10 Ibid.11 1910 census: occupation photographer, own studio. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo,

UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm

publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.12 Died July 26, 1917. Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:

Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Cook County Clerk. Cook County Clerk Genealogy Records. Cook County Clerks

Office, Chicago, IL: Cook County Clerk, 2008.13 Goodspeed and Blanchard, Counties of Porter and Lake Historical and Biographical(1882). This date is not quite consistent

with Ball's account of Hayward's career.14

Valparaiso City Directory (Polk, 1885). Last directory listing I have found.15 "Local Drifts,"Hobart Gazette, 28 Nov. 1902. Sells Hobart studio to A. Haase.16 "Death Takes M.M. Mudge," Vidette-Messenger(Valparaiso) 25 Nov. 1950.17 "Death Takes M.M. Mudge," Vidette-Messenger(Valparaiso) 25 Nov. 1950.18 "August Haase Studio Sold to J.J. Naumann,"Hobart News 30 Oct. 1913. Articles states Hobart had been without a photographer

for about a year because Haase's failing eyesight had caused him to give up photography and take a job in a Gary mill.19 "J.J. Naumann to Take Up New Line of Work," Hobart News 31 Jan. 1918. "New line of work" is tire repair; not clear from the

article whether he will continue his photography business.20Not necessarily starting date, but earliest appearance advertising photography services in Hobart newspaper. "Stolen and Paid For,"

Hobart Gazette 4 Sept. 1889.21 Ancestry.com.Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data:

Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration. Indiana: circa 1938-1941.22

Hobart Gazette Souvenir Edition (1898).23 Ibid.24

Souvenir Album of Lake County, 1906(transcribed at http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/x699.htm).25 Died 10 Dec. 1918, age 57. Ancestry.com.Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com

Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration.

Indiana: circa 1938-1941.