Earlier this week, I spoke with a Mr. B., a man who is very familiar with the Mehoopany photographs (these photos include views of the Jennings/Gaylord Hotel, as well as the aftermath of the 1910 fire).
He said that while some of the photos can be attributed to his father, others were taken by a "deaf-mute itinerant photographer"!
When I visited Mehoopany last month I saw the same images in a collection of a Mr. W., who lives in a house that was built on the site of the hotel. I took some photos of these photos; still, I'm hoping to obtain much better copies from Mr. B. The picture of the hotel in a previous blog post is from that colection.
(The names in the story are edited in order to preserve privacy.)
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