Photographer Succession List

West Chester Photographers Studio Succession List

High Street

Hemphill Building, N. High St. (Opposite the Chester County Courthouse)
May – December 1850 – Philip Price & Levi Crowl
1851-54 – Levi Crowl
1854- January 1856 – Woodward & Cheyney
February 1856 – April 1857 – Eber Woodward

Pierce’s Building on High St. (no address for this)
? – 1886 Henry Paxson
April 1886-1887 – W. F. Grubb

25 N. High St.
1888-1901 – Wm. F. Grubb

Market Street

“Lincoln Building”, above the offices of Joseph J. Lewis, W. Market St., West Chester
October – November 1847 – Warren & Co.
January 1849 – Harned & White
July 1849 – A. B. Tubbs
March 1850 – Broadbent and Hewes
July – October 1850. Thomas Van Osten on the second floor

Darlington Building – SE corner of Market & High
July 1864 – Charles Duval
August 1864- July 1865 – F. McCutchen, employs West and “Mr. Fisher”
August 1 – October 31, 1865- Odiorne & Shrieves
November 1865 – October 1866 – John W. Odiorne

1867 -Jacob S. Beecher
1868 – Beecher & Dickinson

1869 – 1872 – Jacob S. Beecher

1873-1874 – Beecher & Grier
1875- 1876 Jacob S. Beecher
July 1876-May 1877 – Paxson & Marshall
June 1877-June 1887 – Edward S. Marshall
1891-1894 W. C. Bell
1895 -1911- Haverstick was the successor to W. C. Bell (address 3 S. High St.)

Everhart’s Building on Market Street (NW corner of Market and Church Streets)
May 1850- June 1850 – Philip Price & Levi Crowl

Market Street – opposite the Market House, dwelling of John Withrow
February 1846 – April 1846- George Lloyd

Gay Street

Above Mercer’s Store, NW Corner of Gay & Church Streets, West Chester
1862- April 1867 – Eber Woodward (sells business to C. Alfred Garrett)
April 1867- 1871 – C. Alfred Garrett
1877-1879 – W. H. & E. E. Ingram

Over Worrall’s Book Store, No. 7 E. Gay Street, West Chester (This was the number before streets were renumbered in 1879)
1855? –57 – Edwin M. Valentine
November 1858- August 1861 – Nathan Parker
September 21, 1861- September 1, 1863 – S. R. Fisher (bought out Parker’s studio, 7 ½ E. Gay)
April 1864 – Charles Duval & R.T. West
Mid-1864 – R. T. West
Dec. 1864 – October 1865 – C. Alfred Garrett
November 1865 – April 1866 -Shrieves & Battin
April & May 1866 – Battin & Finney
1867 – R.J.M. Reed

9 West Gay Street, West Chester, (This was the number before streets were renumbered in 1879)
Mid 1867 – Spring 1868 – R. B.. Mulford
1870-1871 – Edmund Smedley

11 W. Gay St. – above Thomas Travilla’s Store (address before 1879)
1871- March 1873 – McGinley sells out to W. H. Ingram
1873 – W. H. Ingram

13 West Gay Street, West Chester (This was the number before streets were renumbered in 1879)
Also known as: Above Thomas Travilla’s Store
January 1859 – 1862 – Woodward & Worthington
August 1864- October 1865 – A.A. Anderson
October 1865- April 1867 – C. Alfred Garrett

Townsend’s Building, 30 East Gay Street -became 10 West Gay Street after streets renumbered in 1879
1852 – advertised as rental space for daguerreotypists
July 1853 – 1853 – Norris Peters
December 1854 – April 1855 – Johnson & Pierce
June 1857 – September 1857 – Levis H. Davis
September 1857-January 1858 – Thomas Bugless, Townsend’s Bldg., 30 E. Gay Street.
1860-Spring 1861 – Alfred Taylor
1860-1862 – Jacob Taylor (possibly as early as 1859)
1862-1887 – Thomas W. Taylor
1888-1893 – Taylor Studio, Charles S. Taylor, manager
1893-1897 – Taylor Studio, T. Barton Taylor, manager
June 1899-1913 Levis P. Marshall

Gay Street above Wm. Butler’s Law Office, Opposite Old Depot (see 1850 West Chester Map)
1860- George R. Parker

Gay Street above Hughes Dry Goods Store
May 1857 – December 1858 – Eber Woodward

NE Corner of High and Gay Streets – 3^rd story above Thomas Hogue’s grocery store
March 1899-July 1899 – Havard G. Barrett

Church Street

7 N. Church St. – above W. S. Hill’s Jewelry Store
1887 – Wm F. Grubb