Campbell & Mills' Photograph Wagon
Carte de visite by N.S. Campbell and James Mills of Ottawa, Ill. The portable darkroom on wheels belonging to photography partners N.S. Campbell and James Mills is parked out side of the Mills home. The pair operated a gallery south of the courthouse in downtown Ottawa from the 1860s until about 1871. The unidentified dog may have belonged to Mills.
A story in the Feb. 26, 1870, edition of The Ottawa Free Trader notes:
Campbell & Mills are proprietors of the photographic rooms on the south side of the square, and to say that they have been successful in their business would be but a feeble expression of the truth.
Their rooms are fitted up in a style that pleases all who go their for pictures; and the specimens of their work there displayed are as good as can be produced any where in the county. No ordinary skill is required to take a good portrait—to enable one to know the effects of light, shade, drapery, &c.—yet these gentlemen possess that knowledge to an eminent degree, as their work will amply testify. They make all kinds of pictures, especially the life-sized portraits.
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Campbell & Mills' Photograph Wagon
Carte de visite by N.S. Campbell and James Mills of Ottawa, Ill. The portable darkroom on wheels belonging to photography partners N.S. Campbell and James Mills is parked out side of the Mills home. The pair operated a gallery south of the courthouse in downtown Ottawa from the 1860s until about 1871. The unidentified dog may have belonged to Mills.
A story in the Feb. 26, 1870, edition of The Ottawa Free Trader notes:
Campbell & Mills are proprietors of the photographic rooms on the south side of the square, and to say that they have been successful in their business would be but a feeble expression of the truth.
Their rooms are fitted up in a style that pleases all who go their for pictures; and the specimens of their work there displayed are as good as can be produced any where in the county. No ordinary skill is required to take a good portrait—to enable one to know the effects of light, shade, drapery, &c.—yet these gentlemen possess that knowledge to an eminent degree, as their work will amply testify. They make all kinds of pictures, especially the life-sized portraits.
I encourage you to use this image for educational purposes only. However, please ask for permission.