Volume 10 , Issue 33

An Old Hugh Donnan Photo

Julie Ackerman has an old picture that has the imprint Hugh Donnan on it.

It is a child sitting in a very ornate chair with a beautiful dress. Someone had written Agnes Mellecker on the back, but Julie has pictures of Agnes when she was a baby and this is not her. Does anyone out there have any idea who the picture is ... or NOT?

To refresh your memories... Hugh T. Donnan married Lilla Wilhite, April 18, 1899, in the home of Fanny and Frank Hatfield in Alva, Oklahoma. Fanny was Lilla`s sister. Hugh was a photographer. He worked in Alva, Oklahoma and Kiowa, Kansas. The name of the studio in Kiowa was Donnan and Alexander.

Hugh Donnan, The Photographer, was a native of South Carolina. He came to Alva in April, 1901. He was an excellent workman and had built up a nice picture business in Alva.

His photos were always strictly up-to-date and were unexcelled by photos made anywhere. At least three-fifths of the photos in the Alva Pioneer Souvenir Edition were made by him.
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