Spearfish writer and historian Paul Higbee will be in Deadwood this week (3/31/11) to give a talk about the lives and work of Joseph and George Fassbender. The father and son were well-known photographers who -- together -- documented more than 70 years of life in western South Dakota.
Presented under the auspices of the Adams Museum and House, Higbee will give his talk in the Deadwood City Hall beginning at noon. Admission is by donation.
The Fassbender collection is housed at the Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center, just across the building from our LCHS Room at the HARCC.
From the 1920s until the 1990s, the Fassbenders took photographs of rodeos, businesses, railroading, and probably thousands of "senior portraits" for students across the Black Hills. The Fassbender collection also includes early glass plate negatives.
