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E. (Edward) Klauber
1836–1918
A Louisville photographer and art dealer, he left behind a vivid visual record of 19th-century Kentucky. His surviving work ranges from studio portraits to sweeping documentary images of major local events, including the destruction after the 1890 Louisville cyclone.
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Louisville, Ky. after the Cyclone, March 27, 1890
by E. (Edward) Klauber
About the author
Born in 1836 and active for decades in Louisville, Kentucky, Edward Klauber built a long career as a photographer whose name appears on portraits, stereoviews, and city scenes from the 19th century. Records connected with libraries, archives, and image collections consistently identify him as a Louisville photographer, and Project Gutenberg preserves his 1890 publication Louisville, Ky. after the Cyclone, March 27, 1890.
Klauber's work shows both the everyday and the historic. He photographed studio sitters, created views of places like the Louisville Industrial Exposition, and documented the city in moments of change and disaster. That mix of portraiture and local documentary work makes his photographs especially valuable today: they are not just images, but windows into how Louisville looked and lived in his time.
He died in 1918. Although he is less widely known than some later photographers, his pictures survive in major collections and continue to be used by libraries, historians, and readers interested in Louisville's past.