Hooks Brothers Photography - 4E 159 - Memphis, Tennessee
Posted by: BruceS
N 35° 08.390 W 090° 03.154
15S E 768540 N 3892527
Historical marker commemorating an early photography company in Memphis.
Waymark Code: WM35HX
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 02/13/2008
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Hooks Brothers
Photography
Established In 1907
Established by Henry A. Hooks, Sr. and his brother Robert B. Hooks, Hooks
Brothers Photography Studio was the second oldest continuously operating black
business in Memphis. Located during its early years at 164 Beale Street,
it next moved to Linden Avenue and finally to McLemore Avenue, where it ceased
operation after a destructive fire in 1979.
Covering much of the 20th century, the company chronicled and documented
the history and lives of black Memphis and Memphians. Among the subjects
and luminaries captured on film by the Hooks Brothers were Booker T. Washington,
W. C. Handy, Robert R. Church, the beginning days of the Memphis NAACP, the
Lincoln League, early high school and college graduating classes from Howe
Institute, LeMoyne College, and many other activities of black society and
ordinary people. ~ text of marker