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CATNUM: 1650
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NameFirst: Coutant ~Nellie
NameLast: Coutant
NameMiddle: Helen
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NameNewFirst: Christiana
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BirthMonth: 7
BirthDay: 27
BirthYear: 1875
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OriginalBirthCity: Crawfordsville
OriginalBirthState: IN
OriginalBirthCounty: Montgomery
OriginalBirthNation: USA
DeathMonth: 2
DeathDay: 19
DeathYear: 1953
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OriginalDeathState: IN
OriginalDeathCounty: Montgomery
OriginalDeathNation: USA
Parents: Chancey M. and Isabella (Groff) Coutant
Children: none, never married
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OriginalNotes: "Hidden History of Montgomery County, Indiana" by Jodie Steelman Wilson, Emily Griffin Winfrey, and Rebecca McDole, The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2012
"Nellie Coutant, Forgotten Photographer" by Jodie Steelman Wilson, p. 79-86
Nellie graduated in 1889 and was named the best scholar of the high school class; she received a scholarship from Adrian University in Michigan (no record that she ever attended).
From Bausch and Lomb "Lens Souvenir" 1903:
"My first attempts at photography were made emrely out of politeness, a friend having presented me with a pocket Kodak with a request that I become "an expert photographer." After using it a few times, a vague idea of making real pictures with the tiny thing entered my mind. At that time I had never seen or heard of a photographic magazine of exhibit, and had received no instruction in any branch of art. In fact, I refused to have anything to do with 'painting lessons.' The same little bird on the same little bough with the same mass of leaves, which everyone painted, did not appeal to me. So . . . [rest of article missing from online version of book] Note: found online: https://books.google.com/books?id=HXB_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT72&lpg=PT72&dq=indiana+photographer+death&source=bl&ots=v97ulLLBHd&sig=bKEfisJw0YtixnRrjeGZ5OErpXo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_qJe8h6bXAhVEyoMKHdIFCrU4ChDoAQg-MAQ#v=onepage&q=indiana%20photographer%20death&f=false  She died in Ben Hur Home in Crawfordsville on Feb. 19, 1953. 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/AWARDS:
GEH Photography Biography Index Exhibition History (entered as of July 1993): 1904 First American Photographic Salon at New York, Clausen Galleries; 1906 Exhibition of Photographs, The Work of Women Photographers of America, Camera Club of Hartford;
1906 The Kodak Exhibition, Kodak Galleries, London.

1904 Won Bausch and Lomb International Photographic Contest, 1st prize of $150.00 in gold for "The Madonna of the Fields," a photo of Miss Sally Remley and her little nephew Walter Remley.  Taken with rapid rectilinear lens.

Entered photographs in the 1906, 1907, and 1908 Annual Exhibitions of the Richmond Art Association

NEWSPAPERS:
Montgomery Magazine, July 1990, p. 8 "Local woman noted photographer," by Donald Thompson
PERIODICALS:
Bulletin of Photography, 7 Apr. 1909, p. 217 reproduction from print purchased from Miss Nellie Coutant, Crawfordsville of 6 children taking photos of girl, entered in 1908 Kodak Advertising Competition; p. 215 "Miss Coutant's whole Brownie family all trained on one little miss is delicious."
OTHER:
Crawfordsville CD's:
1878-79: Chancey M. Coutant, body-maker J. S. Miller & Co. [carriage mnfg.] and breeder Plymouth Roch Chickens, res. 66 S. Water
1905-06: at 705 S. Water - all work for Bell Phone, Ella, Isabelle, and Mary Coutant; at 614 S. Water O. R. (Wife Ida M.) Coutant, mnfg.
1907-08: at 705 S. Water - Isabel (wid. Chancy), retired; Mary, and Nellie.  Oliver R. and Ida h. 614 S. Water. Oliver with Gregg, Coutant & Gregg, 211-13 E. Main, Mfng. Of cloth, gloves & mittens
1909-10: at 705 S. Water - Isabel (wid. Chaney M.), Mary, and Nellie, clk. Travis & Brown; Olive R. and Ida M. at 614 S. Water,
1912: Isabell Coutant (wid. S. N.) h. 705 S. Water- only Countant listed in town
1926: Mary B. Coutant, h. 705 S. Water; Nellie Coutant, clk Supreme Tribe Ben Hur, r. 705 S. Water
1934: Nellie Coutant, r. 1475 S. Grant Ave (Ben Hur Home)
1940: Nellie Coutant r. 315 S. Washington with Lloyd E. and Mrs. Florence W. Layne, osteo
1944: Nellie Coutant, r. 1475 S. Grant Ave (Ben Hur Home)
OriginalWorkerTypes: amateur, pictorialist
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OriginalOccupation: clerk, Supreme Tribe Ben Hur; Bell Telephone
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CATNUM: 1650
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City: Crawfordsville
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County: Montgomery
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OriginalSource: Zach, "Photographers of Montgomery County"
Nellie received a camera from a friend and won state, national, and international competitions. "Too well known to be discussed" in the 1904 American Amateur Photographer. Later worked at the Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur insurance company.
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