DeVols Art Gallery, Sullivan, Indiana, circa 1900
| Description: |
A house-like photographic studio with a large slanted skylight extending from the first floor into the attic. Painted on the window is DeVols Art Gallery. Advertising posters are on a carriage house or barn in the back. Handwritten on the verso: Here I am driving my poney [sic pony] on the side of studio on walk. / Janie DeVol.Photographer William F. DeVol (1866-1905) worked from this studio around 1900, with exhibition space to display his artistic photographs. Newspapers report that he specialized in childrens portraits and offered enlarging and framing. His wife was Mary Jane Jennie (Eldridge) DeVol. Sanborn maps and advertisements indicate that this frame studio was built between 1897 and 1901 on the southeast corner of South Court and West Harris Streets. DeVol moved to Arizona in about 1902 in hopes that a dryer climate would be beneficial for his health, but he died there of tuberculosis a few years later at age 39. |
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| Origin: | 1900, circa |
| Created By: |
DeVol, William F., 1866-1905 |
| Source: |
http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/F6DD52BE-B901-40AE-8051-551781403807 |
| Collection: |
Indiana Album |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
| Geography: |
201 South Court Street, Sullivan, Sullivan County, Indiana, United States 39.093270,-87.408380 |
| Subjects: |
Diana McKinney Collection Photographic studios Skylights Carriages & coaches Houses Sullivan (Ind.) Sullivan County (Ind.) |
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