Background
Ewing Galloway grew up in Little Dixie, Kentucky.
Ewing Galloway grew up in Little Dixie, Kentucky.
He owned a photography agency that provided works focused around the economy and transportation. The Ewing Galloway Agency was, at the time, the largest photography agency in the United States. He first worked as a lawyer in Henderson County, Kentucky.
To become a lawyer, he passed the bar examination in 1905.
He was prosecutor for the City of Henderson, Kentucky. He also worked for the Henderson Gleaner.
He became more interested in journalism due to his work at the Gleaner. He relocated to New York City.
He took a journalism course at Columbia University.
He left New New York He ended up working in the Midwestern United States and Hawaii. He moved back to Kentucky and worked for the Henderson Gleaner again as an international
He moved back to New New York
He worked for Literary Digest as an assistant editors After working at Literary Digest, he started working for Collier"son He came their photography editors
After Collier"s, he worked for Underwood & Underwood.
Galloway started his own stock photography company. The Ewing Galloway Agency.
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He acquired 8,000 photographs in 1925.
The photographs consisted of content focused around Asia and Africa. Galloway also had images related to Indigenous peoples of North Americas and Europe. His work was focused around transportation, commerce and the economy.
He sold photographs to encyclopedias, books and magazines.
Galloway opened up satellite offices in Detroit, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, London, Amsterdam, and Berlin. His studios trained photographers.
Hired photographers included Burton Holmes and Maclean Dameron. His business would be considered the largest photography agency in the United States at the time.
When he was older, Galloway lived mainly in Henderson, Kentucky.
He owned a farm there. He volunteered in the community. He also wrote a column in Kentucky newspapers.
lieutenant was called "Kentucky on the March." He was a freemason.
On June 18, Galloway was heading to a baseball game in a taxi. He was in a car accident.
He died June 26 from complications sustained during the accident. Photographs from Galloway"s collection reside in the Library of Congress within the Frank G. Carpenter collection.
Syracuse University Library houses the Ewing Galloway Collection of Photographs.
That collection totals over 400,000 images. Ewing Galloway, Incorporated. continues to maintain economic branch of the collection. In 2007, the Kresge Art Museum put together a retrospective exhibition of Galloway photographs.
