This Cabinet Card photograph is a portrait of an attractive couple posing at the studio of Burkholder & Co. in Orrville, Ohio. The young woman in the image is wearing a hair comb which is clearly seen atop her head. The photographer is John Harley Burkholder (1863-1938) who was active in North Central Ohio from the mid 1880’s until 1910 or later. He had a studio in Orrville in 1894. His brother George Burkholder was his assistant between 1894 and 1901. There were other photographers sharing the same last name who were active in Ohio at about this time period. Eugenia A. Burkholder worked in 1893 at James Ball’s studio in Fostoria, Ohio; and L.M Burkholder and W. N. Burkholder are Ohio photographers mentioned in historical records.
ATTRACTIVE COUPLE IN ORRVILLE, OHIO (1894)
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