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1875–1889 — Main Street, then Washington Street; afterward La Porte
The run: Emery E. Pool is the directory record's steadiest tenant of the 1870s and 1880s. Turner's 1875 directory lists him at the corner of Main and Market — one of the three photographic listings on its page 174 — and the harvested record follows him address by address: Main and Market, 1875 to 1877; 84 Main Street, 1879 to 1881; 82 Main Street, 1882; and 127 West Washington Street from 1883 to 1889. Fourteen years in one city's directories is a long run for the trade, and the moves tell their own story — from the Main Street rooms of the 1870s to a Washington Street address in the 1880s, following the city's commercial center of gravity. After 1889 the South Bend listings end; the Polk gazetteer catches Pool at La Porte in 1890–91, the next county seat east, where the record reached leaves him. No biography, obituary, or surviving studio archive for Pool was found in the records searched; he stands at directory size, which for most of the trade is the whole of what history keeps.
Sources:
- Indiana Album / Indiana Photographers Project, PersonData record for Emery E. Pool (indianaalbum.com) — the address sequence: cor. Main & Market, 1875–77; 84 Main, 1879–81; 82 Main, 1882; 127 W. Washington, 1883–89; La Porte, 1890–91 (Polk gazetteer).
- Turner's South Bend Directory (1875), p. 174 — Pool listed with Bulla Bros. among the city's photographic houses.