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[Identification of item], Lindsey and Brown Photographs, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
The Lindsey and Brown Photographs were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a purchase in 1997.
Processed by RBMSCL Staff, 1997, and Jane Metters, May 2011
Encoded by Jane Metters, May 2011
Accessions included in this finding aid: 1997-0112
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Thomas H. Lindsey (1849-1927) was born in Virginia and moved to Tennessee by the 1870s, where he did photography work. He and his family moved to Asheville, NC in 1888, where he started the city's leading commercial photography studio. Edward E. Brown (c. 1858-1934), a photographer from Ohio, established himself in Asheville in 1886. By 1890, Lindsey and Brown had formed a partnership. They produced portraits and photographs of Asheville and the surrounding countryside at their South East Court Place studio. Their firm sold albumen print cabinet cards to the public and offered their photography services to railroads, civil engineers, and real estate agents. Lindsey and Brown's partnership dissolved by the mid-1890s, and both operated separate studios in Asheville. Lindsey continued working in photography until his retirement; Brown later became a successful florist.
Collection contains photographs (chiefly cabinet cards produced by Lindsey and Brown) of street scenes, landscapes, and tourist attractions in late 19th-century western N.C. Descriptive text is printed on the reverse side of many of the photographs. Most photographs were taken in the vicinity of the Swannanoa, Hot Springs, the French Broad River, Round Knob, Hickory Nut Gap, Buck Forest, Highlands, and Asheville. Contains photographs of the Battery Park Hotel, Chimney Rock, Hooker's Mill, McElroy Tunnel, Devil's Pulpit, Paint Rock, the Seven Sisters, the Swannanoa tunnel stockade, the Murphy Division, Devil's Slip Gap, the Western North Carolina Railroad and U.S. Mail boys. Includes several images of African Americans in western N.C. Collection also includes 4 photographs produced by Brown alone and 3 stereoscopic views produced by Nat W. Taylor. The photographs are sorted by class and the photograph number is given, if known.
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