Joseph K. Sosnowski: the Mishawaka years, 1906–1910

1906 and 1910 — 116 East Second, then 111 East First; South Bend before and after

A South Bend man's Mishawaka tenancy: Joseph K. Sosnowski worked both cities, and the county harvest gives his course: South Bend in 1899 (Mason & Sosnowski, 307 South Michigan), 1901 (proprietor of the Star Photo Company, 232 South Michigan) and 1905 (129 South St. Joseph); then Mishawaka — 116 East Second Street in 1906, and in 1910 the joint South Bend and Mishawaka directory prints him at 111 East First Street, the entry reading "Joseph K. Sosnoski (Alfrieda), photographer 111 E First — H 63, res same," his residence at the studio; then South Bend again in 1914, at the Orpheum Studio, 224 North Michigan. The name itself varies by record — Sosnowski in the harvest's main line, Sosnoski in the 1910 directory — and is printed here as each record gives it. His Mishawaka years are the whole of this fragment's claim: four documented years in which the city's portrait trade was kept by a man whose career the county seat frames on both sides. Whether his East Second rooms were the same rooms the next Mishawaka studio man, Clement F. Kaylor, held at 116 East Second in 1910 is a question the next entry takes up; the address is the same, and no record reached states a succession.

Sources:

1. Indiana Album / Indiana Photographers Project, PersonData CATNUM 2510 (Joseph K. Sosnowski/Sosnoski) — South Bend 1899, 1901, 1905; Mishawaka 1906, 116 E. Second; Mishawaka 1910, 111 E. First (1910 South Bend & Mishawaka City Directory, p. 195); South Bend 1914, Orpheum Studio, 224 N. Michigan.