Norman Studio

The Norman Studio in photography refers to the family business run principally by photographers Henry C. Norman (1850—1913) and his son Earl Norman (1888—1951) in Natchez, Mississippi (United States) between 1876 and 1951, which produced around 75,000 images documenting many significant types of events and subjects in the various small towns along the lower Mississippi River. Its output remains one of the most valuable and comprehensive visual collections documenting Southern American life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In particular, the Norman Studio's work in Natchez documents the continuous growth and development of one of Mississippi's most prosperous cities during the periods of Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and the American Progressive Era, and to a lesser extent the Jazz Age and Great Depression. The surviving Norman Studio photographs currently reside in the Lower Mississippi Valley Collection of the libraries of Louisiana State University.^[1]