The West Point Depot museum and visitors center is acting as the “caboose” for the display, which ends Friday.
The exhibit opened at the Legacy Museum on Main in LaGrange, and the depot is hosting a portable portion titled “Troup County Photographers 1800 – Present: Marking History … or Making Commentary?”
The portable portion of the projects includes recent photographs of the area taken by LaGrange College professor John Lawrence and the “Vested Interest” project, photographs taken by residents of the DASH for LaGrange community.
Some less familiar photographers included are James Tomlinson, a LaGrange photographer with a studio on East Court Square who taught painting at the former LaGrange Female College. Julius Lindsey Schaub was a photographer with a studio on Church Street in LaGrange who also was the commander of the LaGrange camp of Confederate veterans. Pleasant J. Prophett served in the Confederate Army and had a gallery on Broad Street in LaGrange. He displayed photos at the 1870 state fair in Atlanta and was called “one of the finest photographers in the South” by the Atlanta Journal.
Katherine Hyde Green’s photos include the 1957 and 1961 floods in West Point. She was a LaGrange College student who worked at West Point Stevens’ mill for many years. Quinton “Fats” Johnson worked for Callaway Mills and the Callaway Education Association, and many of his photos are of the classes the mill offered there.
Snelson Davis, the last photographer featured, largely photographed downtown buildings and was called a “colorful local photographer.”







