LIVING HISTORY
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photographs. At the time, few publications included photographs.
He encouraged other amateur photographers to submit
photographs and began using more and more of his own
photographs to illustrate magazine articles. By 1901, Hill was
selling cameras and typewriters. In the April issue he wrote,
“If any reader of The Bee Keeper is contemplating the purchase
of a photographic outfit or a writing machine, I should be
pleased to have him correspond with me before placing an
order for either. I am in a position to offer new instruments of
the highest grade, direct from the manufacturer, at the lowest
possible prices.”
In September 1904, Perry Corell, a professional photographer
in Titusville, Penn., sold his business and moved to
Florida with his wife and young son to enter into a partner-
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Harry E. Hill and his son, Lowell, stand behind Harry’s father, Lloyd G.
Hill, who holds his great-granddaughter, Catherine, Lowell’s daughter.
The elder Hill, who died in 1920, moved from Buffalo, N.Y. in 1918 and
spent the last two years of his life in Fort Pierce. Lowell Hill grew up in the
photography business and carried on the work of the Florida Photographic
Concern founded by his father in the early 1900s. Catherine became a accomplished
photo-colorist.
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