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E. (Edward) Klauber
1836–1918
A Louisville photographer and publisher, he left behind a vivid visual record of Kentucky in the late 19th century. His surviving book on the 1890 Louisville cyclone turns local disaster into immediate, eyewitness-style history.
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Louisville, Ky. after the Cyclone, March 27, 1890
by E. (Edward) Klauber
About the author
Born in Bohemia in 1836, Edward Klauber built a long career in Louisville, Kentucky, where he worked as a photographer and later as an art dealer and publisher. Library of Congress records credit him with photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and reference his studio in Louisville.
Klauber is best remembered in book form for Louisville, Ky. after the Cyclone, March 27, 1890, a pictorial work that documents the destruction caused by the storm. Project Gutenberg lists this as his surviving published title, and it gives a good sense of his practical, documentary approach: he used images not just for portraiture, but to capture major local events.
His influence also lasted through his family and community connections. His son Adolph Klauber became a well-known drama critic and theatrical producer, and historical records continue to preserve Edward Klauber's photographs as part of Louisville's visual history.