Angela... I don't know it as a fact, but I'm under the impression that at least some photographers pretty much set up a portable booth beside the street. I don't know how much they traveled, or much of anything, actually. I just wanted to add that my family lived pretty much between Concord, Whigham & Cairo, and I notice that many old photos of theirs had stamped on the back: "Lollard's B'ham, Ala." I was wondering if those photos were made in Birmingham or just developed there... and what kind of business Lollard's was... for instance, a photo studio... or possibly a drugstore? One of my grandfather White's sisters married a man named Jim Trull, who had a fish stand that I understand to have been on the sidewalk across from the rail depot in Cairo. He got the fish that he sold by train from south of Tallahassee. I visualize these photographer's booths as pretty much the same sort of thing, but I really don't kow. RW Angela B Cassidy wrote: >Does anyone know where I can find information on traveling photographers around 1895-1910 in the rural south? I'm publishing a collection of ancestor photos of almost an entire community in Gadsden County, FL, just south of the Georgia State Line, called Concord, and nicknamed "Coonbottom." I want to explain more about traveling photographers, how they made it known when they were coming to town, how much they charged, what kinds of clothing they brought for the subjects to wear if, for instance, the men didn't have a nice suit coat, how much extra they may have charged for clothing, that kind of thing. I want to be able to explain why three little boys had nice jackets on and were barefooted. > >Also, does anyone know why families often brought large photos in frames outside to be part of the family picture? You can't tell who is in them, but I have run across this in quite a few outdoor family photos of 1895-1900. I'm assuming they brought their ancestors outside so they could be in the photo, too. > >Since Concord is just south of the Georgia line and Georgia was settled first, I expect that the photographers for my photos came from Georgia studios. I do have a few that say the studio was in Cairo, GA (Grady County). >Thanks, >Angela Cassidy >Tallahassee, FL >