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NON-DEFINITIVE LIST OF LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHERS 

Name Location Beginning Date Ending Date

Blackhall, John Hobart 18521  18932 

Childs, C.R. (Charles R.) Chicago 19013  Ca. 19514 

Haase, August Hobart 11/28/19025  1912-136 

Hallberg, A.A. Hobart 12/4/19197 

Hayward, W.H. and E.J. (partnership) Valparaiso Ca. 18728  18739 

Hayward, W.H. (Warren) Valparaiso Ca. 187310  187511 

Hayward, W.H. Crown Pt. Sept. 187712  (?)191013 – 191714 

McLellan, John W. Valparaiso 187315  1885?16 

Merrill, A.O. Hobart 11/28/190217 

Mudge, A.C. (Achilles) Hobart After mid-1880s;18 

 poss. ca. 1890?19 

Before June 190020 

Mudge, Marion M. Valparaiso Ca. 188721  193722 

 Naumann, J.J. (John) Hobart 10/30/191323  Jan. 1918?24 

Portmess, J.E. (Jacob) Hobart By Sept. 188925  May 191726 

Reading, A.H. (Adelbert) Valparaiso Ca. 190027

  After 1940;28

 poss. after195229 

Showman, L.K.(?) (Showman's Gallery) Hobart 189330  ? post-189831 

Vilmer, William E. Crown Pt. 188632  191833 

NOTES 

1 "The Blackhall Mansion," The Hobart Herald  26 Aug. 1954. 1852 given as the date of his coming to Hobart.2 Ibid. 1893 given as the date of his retirement.3 Foerstner, Abigail. "History By Mail: Photo Postcards Are Snapshots Of Time Gone By." Chicago Tribune 2 Jan. 1994.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-01-02/entertainment/9401020056_1_postcard-stereo-viewer-photographers. Accessed

2/11/2014.4 Ibid.5 "Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette 28 Nov. 1902. Haase buys A.O. Merrill's studio in Hobart.6 "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.7 Advertisement. Hobart News 4 Dec. 1919.

8 Ball, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, With a Compendium of History 1834 – 1904 (1904).9 Ibid.10 Ibid. W.H. Hayward bought out the interest of E.J. Hayward and continued business in Valpo.11 Ibid.12 Ibid.13 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.14 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 Clerk’s

Office, Chicago, IL: Cook County Clerk, 2008.15

 Goodspeed and Blanchard, Counties of Porter and Lake — Historical and Biographical (1882). This date is not quite consistentwith Ball's account of Hayward's career.16 Valparaiso City Directory (Polk, 1885). Last directory listing I have found.17 "Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, 28 Nov. 1902. Sells Hobart studio to A. Haase.

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18 In 1880 he was 12 yrs old, living in Michigan. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United

States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: Tenth Census of the

United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. NationalArchives, Washington, D.C.19

 "An All-around Man. — Mr. A. C. Mudge, who has had several years' practical experience in the management of his brother'sgallery at Valparaiso, Ind., desires a position where his capabilities will find appreciation." Wilson's Photographic Magazine, Volume

XXXIV, 1897. Accessed September 19, 2013. Internet Archive.20 6/25/1900: Occupation: photographer, own account, Fresno, CA. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-

line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth

Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls

(hereinafter, "1900 Census").21 "Death Takes M.M. Mudge," Vidette-Messenger  (Valparaiso) 25 Nov. 1950.22 Ibid.23 "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.24 "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.25 Not necessarily starting date, but earliest appearance advertising photography services in Hobart newspaper. "Stolen and Paid For,"

 Hobart Gazette 4 Sept. 1889.26 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 1938-1941.27 Occupation: photographer. 1900 Census.28 Occupation: photographer engaged in commercial portrait work. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth

Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.29 A.H. and his wife Caroline were married in 1898 and "[l]ived in Valparaiso the first 54 years of [their] married life and then moved

to Safety Harbor[, Florida]." "Deaths," Vidette-Messenger  (Valpraiso) 11 May 1955.30  Hobart Gazette Souvenir Edition (1898).31 Ibid.32 Souvenir Album of Lake County, 1906  (transcribed at http://www.lowellpl.lib.in.us/x699.htm).33 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.