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NameLast: Winans
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OriginalBirthCity: Brookville
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Parents: King D. and Margaret E. Winans
Children: stepson
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:47:18 PM
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OriginalNotes: "Ben Winans's Brookville," by Donald L. Dunaway, Traces, Summer 1997, pp. 34-37: Winans attended school in old Franklin County Seminary building. At age fifteen he left school and went to work in the office of the Brookville American--which began his lifelong career in printing. In 1891 he opened a shop of his own, which he continued to operate until he became incapacitated in 1947.

Collection: over 3,000 glass negatives acquired by Eugene Bock from Winans's stepson in 1956. In late 1980s the collection acquired by Donald Dunaway, of Brookville.  The Indiana Historical Society has approximately 1,000 Winans photographs, acquired from Winans in 1938 (1902-1911 views of log cabins and covered bridges in Franklin Co.); In 1964 Bock printed for the Society a set of 400 photographs from the negatives of Winans and John W. Baker. In 1973 the IHS received the Virgil Davis Collection, which contains more than 600 vintage Winans photographs.

The Brookville Democrat, 21 Feb. 1907, p. 1 bio of Will C. Winans, brother of B. F. Winans - W. C. Winans emigrated from Grant County, KY., in company with his parents, King D. and Margaret E. Winans, who formed a company of 21 families, the date being October 26, 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Winans settled in Brookville" [The other families went farther west. King D. Winans was a carpenter and joiner. W. C. is one of 12 children.] "Ben F. is happily married and is the owner of a neat and commodious job printing office in Brookville, and has a photographer's camera. When not busily engaged with indoor work he goes out on our roamantic hills and along the Whitewater, and takes landscape views of the picturesque scenery."
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CATNUM: 3145
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City: Brookville
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StudioName: Winan's Printery
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Name: Winan's Printery
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OriginalSource: "Ben Winans's Brookville," Traces, Summer 1997, pp. 34-37: In 1902 he bought a camera, with this and other cameras, he produced nearly 3,000 glass-plate negatives of various sizes through 1916; John W. Baker, a Brookville photographer, accompanied Winans on some of his early photographic excursions. He took many photos on Sunday when his printing shop was closed.

Dunaway: Winans: in 1902 Winans bought state-of-the-art studio camera; Winans opened his own printing business in 1891, which he continued to operated until ill health incapacitated him in 1947. He ran his business from 3 dirfferent locations near Sixth and Main Sts. In Brookville. He also had shop at fifth and Main Sts. His last place of business was first occupied in 1910. . . By 1910, photography became an important part of Winan's business interest. In a photo of the new Printery (also the location of his first permanent darkroom) taken in Feb. that year by Baker is a sign at the entrance reading: "Commercial Printing--Brookville Pictures." with a framed set of 30 of his Brookville photos.

The Brookville Democrat, 21 Feb. 1907, p. 1 bio of Will C. Winans, brother of B. F. Winans

The Brookville Democrat (Brookville, Indiana), 7 Dec. 1911, p. 1 - Distinguished Guests. Dec. 2 the Transcontinental Motor Tourists on return trip from San Francisco to New York had dinner at the Valley House in Brookville and "their shadows were captured by Ben Winans, the landscape photographer."
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