Reva Brooks

(1913-2004)

Reva BrooksReva Brooks left Canada in 1947 along with her husband Leonard who planned to study painting in Mexico for a year. They settled in the small Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende where Leonard began studying painting.

Accompanying Leonard on his painting trips, Reva began to photograph the local Mexican population and after a short time one of her photographs "Confrontation" came to the attention of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, as well as Edward Steichen who purchased the photograph for inclusion in the New York Museum of Modern Art's Family of man exhibit.

Roy J. Jacoby

(Active 1920's-1930's)

We were able to find no information on this commercial photographer, other than the information stamped on the back of the following four photographs.

Roy J. Jacoby - Commercial Photographer - 168 Dartmouth Street, Boston Mass

Robert Edwards Holloway

(1874-1904)

holloway

Robert Holloway was a noted educator, scientist and photographer from Newfoundland, Canada. Among many of his achievements he also published a book of photos of Nova Scotia in the late 1890's.

This photo is from St Johns bay Nova Scotia and is signed Copyright Holloway St Johns.

John Calvin CoovertJohn Calvin Coovert "King Cotton" Panoramic Photograph

John Coovert was an early 20th century photographer (active 1862-1937) from Mississippi who became famous for his images of African Americans harvesting cotton in the south. Early on in his career as a photographer He won a Gold medal at the 1889 Paris Exposition for his photographs of state views. Coovert's "Cirkut" photographs can be viewed in the Library of Congress.