Joseph W. Gehrig “hits one out of the park” with this cabinet card portrait of a fashionable and attractive woman in Chicago, Illinois. She looks magnificent with her white fur draped around her neck and her black feather hat. The subject of this photograph is clearly a woman of means. The photographer of this excellent photograph, Joseph Gehrig (1847-1915), was active in Chicago between 1876 and 1905. He produced many portraits of celebrities, society folk, and performing artists. He began his career in Dubuque, Iowa. This cabinet card has some corner wear and the image’s top center edge is imperfect. This cabinet card portrait is in overall very good condition (see scans).
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Do you know if Gehrig had branch studios in, say, Milwaukee. I have photos by Gehrig Studio that I can date to 1881, but the subjects were living in Waukesha Village, Wisconsin, at the time.
Thanks, Geoff
I can’t find evidenc that Gehrig operated a studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. However, my unsuccessful search does not preclude the possibility that Gehrig did have a studio there. An alternative explanation is that the Milwaukee residents in your photograph had been visiting nearby Chicago and had stopped into Gehrig’s studio to have their portrait taken.
I think you might be right. It seems that travel from Milwaukee to Chicago was fairly common in those days – indeed, my own great-grandfather moved back and forth between Wisconsin and Illinois. The son of one of the subjects later went from Australia to Chicago to study dentistry.
Geoff