This photograph makes wonderful use of lighting to create this sharp crisp image of a very pretty young woman with piercing eyes. Note the subject’s bonnet and rose corsage. The photographer is Jeremiah F. Rank (1847-1913) and he was born in Shelby, Ohio. He learned the trade of photography from I. S. Hartsock in Van Wert, Ohio, in 1872. After being trained, he quickly bought Hartsock’s studio and operated the business until 1892 when he sold the gallery. After traveling around the United States for two years, he opened galleries in Schuyler and Lincoln, Nebraska. He eventually returned to Van Wert and opened another studio there. To view other photographs by this photographer, click on the category “Photographer: Rank”. SOLD
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