Weiser Studio, Knoxville, Tennessee, Photograph of Unidentified Man, circa 1890s

Item — Box: WP014.01, Folder: 012

Weiser Studio: Formal side portrait of a man

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection contains thirteen mounted portraits of African Americans in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Of particular interest are the images taken at the Brazelton Studio in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Weiser Studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Weem's Photography Studio in Jacksonville, Florida.

Dates

Creation: circa 1890s

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Biographical / Historical

George W. Weiser (1825-1903) established and owned Weiser Photographic Studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, around 1890. Mr. Weiser started as a photographer in Steubenville, Ohio between 1850-1860. He and his family moved to Orange County, Florida, around 1880, and Mr. Weiser worked as a photographer there for nearly a decade. It is unknown whether he operated a studio or worked for another photographer during this time. The Weiser family then moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, around 1889. Mr. Weiser opened Weiser Photographic Studio in 1890, eventually opening a second location. Both of his daughters, Alice Patton and Anna Barbara, are listed as photographers for the studio in city directories, and they inherited the business upon Mr. Weiser's death in 1903.