Loar, W.R. and Son - photographers.
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Victorian Photo Album Photographs
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3318
Overview
Victorian photo album (with exterior of faded dark burgundy cloth and tarnished gold-toned bas-relief ornaments) with built-in music box containing cartes-de-visites, cabinet cards, postcards, tintypes, and two negatives. Includes individual and family group portraits. Subjects of photographs are unidentified, except for postcard portrait of Pastor J.O. Patterson of Main Street Church of Christ in Elkins, West Virginia. Photographers are identified on some of the card mounts, including Loar...
Dates:
circa 1890-1935, 2019
W.R. Loar and Son, Photographer, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2780
Overview
Studio registers and business records of W.R. Loar and Son, photographers of Grafton, West Virginia. The 25 volumes of studio registers cover the period 1918 to 1965. The 20 volumes of business records include cash books, 1940-1958; inventories, 1949-1955; invoices, 1939-1947; bank books, 1939-1940; and business expense accounts, 1943-1965.
Dates:
1918-1968