This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/500 Message Board Post: I have a photograph that I'm trying to date. I think the picture dates to around 1900. The picture was taken by Howard's Gallery in Girard. "J. R. Bell, Operator" is inscribed right next to the name of the studio. Does anyone know when J. R. Bell was the "operator" of Howard's Gallery? I found a J. R. Bell in the 1900 census living in Lincoln Twp., Crawford County. He was 37 at the time and it looks like he was a farmer (the copy was hard to read). I cannot find him in the 1910 or 1920 census in Kansas or any other state. If anyone can shed some light on this, I would appreciate it. Judi