Stereographs project Business locations Mobile, AL, US Natchez, MS, US Vicksburg, MS, US St. Louis, MO, US [6-7] *[T. Henry Hughes; also in partnership with Josephus Lakin in MO, MS 61-65] 57 Dauphin St., Mobile; Cor. Fourth and Locust Sts., St. Louis. Views rare from MO, scarce from AL & MS.
Issued "Hughes Stereoscopic Views of Mobile &
Vicinity"; "Hughes Instantaneous Views of the
Alabama River"; prob. made ~50 in MS, 20 in AL.
Early ones on SCMs, later on CMs. Local scy.,
homes, plantations, stone-working shop; whites &
blacks, farming scenes, Mobile race track.
While views are generally undistinguished he was
an important worker since there were very few
photographers in the south during 60s; B. ~41.
listed at St. Louis, MO 61-63; followed Union
Army to Vicksburg, MS early 63 ("Rooms over
McGraw's Drug Store"); Natchez, MS 63-65; Mobile, AL 69-70s T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association) |
Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others. |
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