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Artifact of the Week: Photo of Captain and Mrs. John Daniel

Artifact of the week, black and white photo
Tue, 01/26/2021

Our artifact of the week this week is a photograph of Captain and Mrs. John Daniel sitting outside E.M. Snipes photography studio in Anderson. Elbert Monroe Snipes was a photographer in Anderson whose studio was open from 1892 to 1910. His son, R.L. Snipes was also a prominent Anderson County photographer in Pelzer in the 1910s to the 1930s. This photograph was taken where the S.H. Kress store stood between Church and Market Streets.

black and white photo outside a photo studio