Following is an index to Iowa photographers. This list is compiled from Iowa researchers and the orphan photos that have been submitted.  Hopefully, this list may help you date a photo or determine the location of ancestors during a certain period.

You can help add to this index. Please submit photographer names and locations that appear on your Iowa family photographs to Don Kelly at Lost Family Treasures If you can provide an approximate date for your photo this will help us estimate the years the photographer was in business.

Photographers A-C

Photographers D-G

Photographers H-M

Photographers N-Z

Also see the Union County Early Photographers index.

Comments from submitters

Below this line to be integrated into the main photographers index page.

M. W. Owens, Photographer, Washington, Iowa
C. C. Taylor, East Side, Main Street, Warren, Ohio
Both appear to be before or near to 1900.
Photographers name on the lower left corner and printed at an angle.
The name is 'Runyon. Jr. Vinton Iowa.

Wiggins Photographer, 44 oriel block, 2nd Ave. Near Post Office, Cedar Rapids.
Sivem.  Cottage Gallery  Cedar Rapids
Swems Studio Cedar Rapids
Swem Cottage Gallery  Cedar Rapids (probably the same as above)
Star Gallery  H. R. Buser  # 53 1st. Street, Cedar Rapids
Buser and Son,  Cedar Rapids
E. J. Buser Cedar Rapids
Medlar Aristo  1st National Bank Building,  Spencer Iowa
Brown Cosmopolitan,  221 3rd. Ave  Cedar Rapids
Weed    Cedar Rapids
Fairbanks   Center Point and Walker,  Iowa
DeKalb West Side Studio,  Cedar Rapids.

Stamms Gallery   623 Pearl ST   
Sioux City, IA

Genelli Gallery      
M.W. Starks Proprietor
607 Fourth St.
Sioux City,   IA

Wood Gallery         
623 Pearl ST
Sioux City IA

Jennie Fleming        
368 Broadway
Council Bluff, IA

KNICELY'S STUDIO

531 W. Broadway

Council Bluffs, IA

(est 1908-1918)

 

KOHARA & OKAMOTO

Council Bluffs, IA

1925

(from a Thomas Jefferson "TJ" High School picture)

 

1.  Photographer J. R. Brown   LeMars, Plymouth, IA   circa 1870's to 1890's (sorry I can't be more precise).

 

2.  Photographer Gosting Photographer   LeMars, Plymouth, IA circa 1870's to 1890's.

 

3.  Photographer McMahon's Star Gallery   Mt. Pleasant, Floyd, IA  This is a tin type ?circa 1880

     You have a McMahon, B. Artist listed in Mt. Pleasant.  Could this be one in the same?

 

Thanks so much for your very helpful site.

 

barblasky@att.net