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1880s–1889 — 104 and 101 South Michigan Street
The cabinet-card man: August Luckhaus belongs to the cabinet-card era, the format that succeeded the carte de visite — a larger print on a card mount, the studio's name and address printed on the back as advertising. His South Bend imprint is on cabinet cards of the 1880s at 104 South Michigan Street; in 1889 he was at 101 South Michigan, over Coonley's Drug Store. The harvested record also catches him far from home: Luckhaus appears in a Memphis directory in 1888 and a Denver directory in 1908. Whether the Memphis and Denver listings are the same August Luckhaus in motion or the record's coincidence of a name, the project's file carries them under his name, and they are printed here at that strength — as the project's attribution, not as a settled itinerary. Either way the entry makes the trade's larger point: the portrait photographer's skill was portable, his mounts traveled with him, and a Michigan Street imprint of the 1880s can surface in a family's album anywhere the family afterward went.
Sources:
- Indiana Album / Indiana Photographers Project, PersonData record for August Luckhaus (indianaalbum.com) — the 1880s cabinet cards at 104 S. Michigan; the 1889 listing at 101 S. Michigan over Coonley's Drug Store; the Memphis (1888) and Denver (1908) directory appearances carried in his file.