The Nankin Township Historical Society

I bought these three carte de visites on eBay and should probably scans them but phone photos will suffice at this point. This first shot of a young teenage girl was shot by photographer E. B. Lewis whose studio was on the first floor over the Express Office. The next two shots are of two young men who were photographed by Sam B. Revenaugh. The latter card states that the studio was on the Ground Floor Gallery, wherever that might be. I should be embarrassed of myself for not doing even the obligatory cursory glance on the named photographers but I haven't and have zero motivation to do so.

I bought these first two carte de visites, among a lot of nine, from an eBay dealer who apparently purchased them from a Livonia or Plymouth, Michigan estate sale. They have a possible relation to a man named P. Galt Miller. Beyond that they remain unnamed. A short biography of Stephenson along with some example of his other work gleaned from across the internet will follow this next CDV.   "Jerome J. Stephenson was born in 1847 in Michigan. He married Betsy Frazier in 1871 and bought Edwin P. Baker’s studio in 1872. He operated his studio in Ypsilanti until he sold it to Frank P. Ford in 1903. At one point during his operations, for a limited time he offered a free cabinet card photograph to anyone over sixty years of age. It seems like he was a man before his time by being one of the pioneers of  'senior discounts'." "This cabinet card portrait features a young girl intensely staring at the camera in a studio in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The child is wearing a dark...