Charles Lochman, Cumberland County's First Premium Photographer

Charles Lochman operated a photography studio at several different locations in Carlisle and Newville between 1859 and 1874. He is appreciated today for his views of the ruins of Chambersburg in 1864 and the fact that A.A. Line, a better known Carlisle photographer, was his apprentice. Beyond this he left barely a hundred carte-de-visite portraits of Carlisle townsfolk and a handful of landscapes. No diaries or papers of his have survived, or they are yet to be discovered. what little is known about Lochman has had to be gleaned from local newspapers and vital statistics records. This is a pity, for it seems he was well respected by his contemporaries and had much more of a life beyond photography. As 1989 is the 15th anniversary of the "birth" of this process, it is fitting to celebrate one of Cumberland County's early photographers. 

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