Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Photographers

Knaffl & Brakebill Photography Studio experiments with relief imagery

Knaffl & Brakebill went on to receive widespread acclaim for their photographic work in the early decades of this century.

I did a series of photos on a Saturday afternoon in a small Tennessee town, of a medicine man. He had a little dummy, ventriloquist dummy.

Leo J. Beachy is thought to have taken 10,000 photographs a year on 5×7 inch glass plates of his beloved Garrett County, MD.

Frances Benjamin Johnston transcended notions about women’s place to become a pioneer in American photography and photojournalism.

Albert J. Ewing (1870-1934) was a traveling photographer who worked on a floating studio aboard the Water Queen showboat on the Ohio River.

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