Return to Photo Collections View previous item View next item View TOOK Collection Index View Photo Archives Index Contributor: Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Inquiries to Glenn Jacob Roy Thronton Toothman, III Collection: Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Collection (Code: TOOK) Series: Toothman-Hoult (Code: AN003) Item #: TOOK_AN003_0002_0019 Photographer: Photographic Artists, J. Gurney & Son, 707 Broadway, N. Y. Physical Detail: Carte-de-Visite Date: 1860 to 1869 (See Description below for more information.) Caption: Unidentified Can you help to identify this photo? If so, please email Candice Buchanan.

Description / Citation: Carte-de-Visite photograph. Original, professional photograph from Photographic Artists, J. Gurney & Son, 707 Broadway, N. Y. Handwritten inscription on back of photo reads “Loffingwell” but this may be something other than an identification. An online history of the photographer posted at www.daguerreotype.com/gr_table.htm may help date the photo: "From 1857 to 1869 his gallery was listed at 707 Broadway, New York City. In 1857, he was noted in partnership with John Bishop Hall, making and distributing Hallotypes. This partnership was not listed in the New York City directories. From 1858 to 1860, he was listed as photographic artist, 349 Broadway. Sometime in the late 1850's he may have employed Samuel J. Miller, a former daguerreian in Akron, Ohio, as a 'poser.' This was the assistant who posed the sitter for the camera. In 1860-1861, he was listed as a photographist at 707 Broadway, in business as J. Gurney and Son, with Benjamin Gurney. In 1874, the Gurney and Son partnership was dissolved. Benjamin Gurney continued to work at Kurtz's old gallery at 872 Broadway.") This photograph is in an album that was donated by Glenn Jacob Roy Thornton Toothman, Jr., to the Greene County Historical Society (918 Rolling Meadows Road, P.O. Box 127; Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 15370). The Toothman-Hoult Series probably began with Martha Jane (Hoult) Toothman [1850-1931], wife of Thornton Jacob Toothman [1847-1896], and daughter of John Cunningham Hoult & Susanna Bare. Martha’s photographs likely passed to her daughter, Margaret Lee (Toothman) Wilson [1882-1970] and her husband, Fred Martin Wilson [1877-1967], who never had children and consequently passed the photographs to Margaret’s grandnephew Glenn Jacob Roy Thornton Toothman, Jr. [1920-2001] and his wife, Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2005. Each generation added to the collection with photographs from their own family and in-laws. The Toothman-Hoult Series is a part of the Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Collection.

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