This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3g.2ADI/4800.1 Message Board Post: Mary, I don't know exactly when Hall closed the studio but he was active through at least 1915. George Schwab was another photographer in Hoopeston around the turn of the last century. I have some of their photos on my website, http://members.aol.com/acepub/FOH.html I don't recall seeing any cabinet cards in the Hoopeston library, but they did have some postcard type photos from 1910's or 1920's in Hoopeston in their Illinois room collection.