(Charles) Dowe West

(Charles) Dowe West

High school students

Men

Portraits

Waynesville (N.C.)

This portrait from the 1945 Waynesville Township graduating high school class is part the Sherrill Studio Collection. George Dexter Sherrill (1879–1931) opened the first photography studio in Haywood County on Depot Street in downtown Waynesville in 1902. In 1906 his studio became the first Eastman Kodak franchise west of Asheville and the third in North Carolina. Sherrill’s photography roots began in Jackson County where he learned the art from his brother-in-law, A. L. Ensley. Beulah Eloise Ashe Ensley (1899-1991) apprenticed with Sherrill in 1917 and worked in the studio with her husband, Sherrill’s nephew, Ralph Ensley (1894-1975) until Ralph’s death. The Ensley’s demolished the original studio in 1943, dug the site to street level, and built an International style building.

Sherrill's Photography Studio

Sherrill Studio Photo Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1945

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negatives (photographs)

portraits

eng

StillImage

38863

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2018-12-19

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Haywood County (N.C.)

3.5" x 2.5"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia