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Ben Wiemeyer with dog, circa 1890
This cabinet card of a young man and his dog was found in the Mittlebeeler family photo collection. On the back the image is the inscription “Ben Wiemeier [sic] Aunt Lizzie's Boyfriend.”
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Moorman (1879-1945) was born to a German immigrant family in Louisville. She grew up on East Jackson Street in the Shelby Park neighborhood and later moved to Oak Street. In 1890 Lizzie succumbed to Typhoid Fever. Lizzie supported herself as a seamstress and remained single all her life, but this photograph provides a clue into an early romance.
A Ben Wiemeyer is listed in City Directories from the 1880s and 1900s as living on East Chestnut Street, only a half-mile away from where Lizzie lived. He was also from a German family. Although Lizzie and Ben never married, they must have dated when they were teens. Ben went on to marry and became a machinist.
Learn more about German photographer Paul Günter in this online exhibit: https://filsonhistorical.omeka.net/exhibits/show/gunter-photography/life-of-gunter -
Cabinet card portrait of a baby, ca. 1891
Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified baby. -
First Communion portrait of two young women, ca. 1895
Cabinet card portrait of two unidentified young women posing in their First Communion dresses. -
Cabinet card portrait of a baby, ca. 1891
Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified baby. -
Cabinet card portrait of a man, circa 1891
Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified man. -
Cabinet card portrait of a boy, circa 1895
Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified boy. -
Cabinet card portrait of a woman, circa 1880
Hand-colored cabinet card portrait of an unidentified woman. -
Cabinet card portrait of a man and woman, circa 1890
Staged cabinet card portrait of a unidentified man and woman. -
Cabinet card portrait of a woman, circa 1880
Hand-colored cabinet card portrait of an unidentified woman. -
Cabinet card portrait of a woman, circa 1891
Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified woman. -
Sample of a carte-de-visite, circa 1860 and cabinet card, circa 1880
Examples of the difference in size between a carte-de-visite and a cabinet card. Two common photographic formats of the late 19th century. -
Gunter's photographers back stamp, circa1895
Example of Paul Gunter's photographers stamp on the verso of one of his cabinet cards. -
Cabinet card portrait of a man, circa 1891
Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified man. -
Gunter's photographers back stamp, circa 1895
Example of Paul Gunter's photographers stamp on the verso of one of his cabinet cards. It notes that he was located at 434 E. Market Street between Preston and Jackson. -
Cabinet card portrait of a woman, circa 1891
Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified woman. -
Cabinet card portrait of a woman, circa 1891
Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified woman. -
Cabinet card portrait of a baby, circa 1891
Cabinet card portrait of an unidentified baby. -
Gunter's photographs back stamp, circa 1895
Example of Paul Gunter's photographers stamp on the verso of one of his cabinet cards. -
Three-year-old Patty Thum, 1856
Patty Thum was known for her paintings of flowers, especially roses but she was also a talented landscape and portrait artist. She is one of the city's earliest professional woman artists. She also was an author, inventor, and major advocate for the arts in the City of Louisville. She dedicated her life to art from the age of 16 right up until her death at the age of 73.
Born in Louisville in 1853, Patty was the eldest child of Louisa Miller and Mandeville Thum, a doctor with a practice on Jefferson Street. Patty attended the Louisville Girl's School (the city's first public school). Patty was 9 years old when her father died in 1862, serving as a surgeon for the Confederate 7th Arkansas Infantry. Louisa never remarried and ensured her sons and daughters all attended college.
In 1869, at the age of 16, Thum left home and traveled north to study art at Vassar College, established in 1861 to "accomplish for young women what our colleges are accomplishing for young men."