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(erielack) RE: "F.P.Bunnell & Son"



Schuyler and List:
Your note about F P Bunnell (and Son) started my mind working again.
Some years back, I made the acquaintance of a very knowledgeable
gentleman, John Willever, who is very well versed on the Lackawanna
company photographers. Anyhow, the name F.P.Bunnell just didn't ring
right, so I got out my notes from conversations with John. The most well
known Lackawanna company photographer, simply for the fact that he did
the photos of both cutoff construction projects, was W.B.Bunnell (Watson
B. Bunnell). His employment lasted into the late 'teens maybe into the
twenties when he was replaced by W.B.B., Jr., not Watson Jr. as you
would suspect, but William B. Barry. He added the suffix Jr. to his
photos to further identify his work. Another DL&W photographer who
worked during the same period was a John G. Anneman.   My notes seem to
indicate that Watson never married, so perhaps F.P. could have been some
other relation who was given access to company plates, but we don't show
an F.P. Bunnell as having worked for the DL&W. For what it was
worth......

Dick Tubbs


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