Advertisement for Lorenzo Short.
Breed Publishing Co.’s Fourth Annual Directory of the City of Kingston for the Years 1890-91.
Lorenzo Short operated one of the longest running photographic studios in the history of Kingston, New York. Short began his career as a farmer, but upon switching careers around 1873, he opened his studio in the Rondout section of the Kingston. He operated the studio until his passing in 1928, and it was afterwards managed by his daughter Belle until she closed the doors in 1952.