Pamela: If you go to; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=pitttextdir;page=browse;key=date You can pick a year and search for the photographer by year until you find him. Try multiple years to find when he was in business. Larry On 1/17/2014 10:11 PM, pmm wrote: > I am trying to date a photo I have by a Pittsburgh photographer, R.D. > Cochran. The back of the cabinet card states, "R. D. Cochran, Artistic > Photographer, 150 and 152 Wylie Ave, cor. Elm St. Instantaneous Portraits > of Children a successful Specialty. Duplicates can be had at any time." > > I did find a cabinet card of an African-American soldier during the Civil > War that was taken by RD Cochran. Is there a listing anywhere of > photographers and when they had their studios? > > TIA- > > Pamela > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.pagenweb.org/~allegheny/index.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- My genealogy page http://twothompsongenealogies.com/ Allegheny County Maps page http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lt0168/maps/