Photograpic Studios: Itinerate Photographers--Railway Studios


Figure 1.--This Canadian boy was photographed by a the itinerant/mobile photgraph gallery. These railroad photographers travelled from town to town while customers posed inside the train car. The image is undated, but we would guess hat it was taken in the late 1890s. Notice the boy's bow and the lining of his flat cap. Image coutesy of the CS collection.

Not all intinerate photgraphers operated by horse and buggy. There were also photographers which operated from trains. Photographers operated from railroad photgraphic galleries. These railroad photographers travelled from town to town while customers posed inside the train car. We have noted this in both America and Canada. There may have been other countries as well. We are not sure just how this worked. Presumably they did not just travel ith scheduled trains. There ould not have been time between stops. We assume that there was an entire car devoted to photogrphy which was put on a siding for a week or two at stops where thgere was no local photographer. We are not sure about the dates involved here, but believe that these portraits were made from the 1870s to the 1900s. So far all of te cards we have noited have been cabinent cards rather than CDVs.








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