Lindsey and Brown photographs, circa 1890

Using These Materials Teaser

Using These Materials Links:

Using These Materials

Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke...
More about accessing and using these materials...

Summary

Creator:
Lindsey and Brown
Abstract:
Photographers of Asheville, NC. Photographs (chiefly cabinet cards produced by Lindsey and Brown) of street scenes, landscapes, and tourist attractions in late 19th-century western N.C. Descriptive text is printed on the reverse side of many of the photographs. Most photographs were taken in the vicinity of the Swannanoa, Hot Springs, the French Broad River, Round Knob, Hickory Nut Gap, Buck Forest, Highlands, and Asheville. Contains photographs of the Battery Park Hotel, Chimney Rock, Hooker's Mill, McElroy Tunnel, Devil's Pulpit, Paint Rock, the Seven Sisters, the Swannanoa tunnel stockade, the Murphy Division, Devil's Slip Gap, the Western North Carolina Railroad and U.S. Mail boys. Includes several images of African Americans in western N.C. Collection also includes 4 photographs produced by Brown alone and 3 stereoscopic views produced by Nat W. Taylor.
Extent:
2 Linear Feet
53 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.00817

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains photographs (chiefly cabinet cards produced by Lindsey and Brown) of street scenes, landscapes, and tourist attractions in late 19th-century western N.C. Descriptive text is printed on the reverse side of many of the photographs. Most photographs were taken in the vicinity of the Swannanoa, Hot Springs, the French Broad River, Round Knob, Hickory Nut Gap, Buck Forest, Highlands, and Asheville. Contains photographs of the Battery Park Hotel, Chimney Rock, Hooker's Mill, McElroy Tunnel, Devil's Pulpit, Paint Rock, the Seven Sisters, the Swannanoa tunnel stockade, the Murphy Division, Devil's Slip Gap, the Western North Carolina Railroad and U.S. Mail boys. Includes several images of African Americans in western N.C. Collection also includes 4 photographs produced by Brown alone and 3 stereoscopic views produced by Nat W. Taylor. The photographs are sorted by class and the photograph number is given, if known.

Biographical / historical:

Thomas H. Lindsey (1849-1927) was born in Virginia and moved to Tennessee by the 1870s, where he did photography work. He and his family moved to Asheville, NC in 1888, where he started the city's leading commercial photography studio. Edward E. Brown (c. 1858-1934), a photographer from Ohio, established himself in Asheville in 1886. By 1890, Lindsey and Brown had formed a partnership. They produced portraits and photographs of Asheville and the surrounding countryside at their South East Court Place studio. Their firm sold albumen print cabinet cards to the public and offered their photography services to railroads, civil engineers, and real estate agents. Lindsey and Brown's partnership dissolved by the mid-1890s, and both operated separate studios in Asheville. Lindsey continued working in photography until his retirement; Brown later became a successful florist.

Acquisition information:
The Lindsey and Brown Photographs were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a purchase in 1997.
Processing information:

Processed by RBMSCL Staff, 1997, and Jane Metters, May 2011

Encoded by Jane Metters, May 2011

Accessions included in this finding aid: 1997-0112

Materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Contents

Using These Materials

Using These Materials Links:

Using These Materials

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection.

All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. The library may require up to 48 hours to retrieve these materials for research use.

Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.

Terms of access:

The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

Before you visit:
Please consult our up-to-date information for visitors page, as our services and guidelines periodically change.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Lindsey and Brown Photographs, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.