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Author: heritagephoto
Surnames: Heichert
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I'm a few years late in this conversation, but I am writing a book about Indiana
photographers and can add that you photographs probably date from about 1870-1878. If the
advertising text that you quote had the "NPA" logo (National Photographic
Association), then your photographs are likely from the 1874-77 period.
My earliest citation so far for H. Oscar is 1866.
H. Oscar Heichert quit the photograph business in about 1880.
FRANKFORT: A PICTORIAL HISTORY, p. 60
Luther V. Heichert apprenticed with his bro. Oscar in 1871. Oscar had an established
photography business in Frankfort. In 1878 they became a partnership known as Heichert
Bros. which was located in the Cohee block on the SE cor. of Main and Clinton. Two yrs.
later Oscar retired and left Luther the sole proprietor.
I'd love to find any photographs of their studios for my book.
Joan Hostetler
Indiana Photographers Project
heritagephotoservices(a)gmail.com
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