{{Short description|American photographer (1849–1919)}} [[File: Confederate House c. 1890.PNG|thumb|Confederate Home, c. 1890 ]] thumb|35 Coming Street [[File: Charles Drayton House c. 1890.PNG|thumb|Charles Drayton House, c. 1890]] '''George LaGrange Cook''' (1849–1919) was a photographer in Charleston, South Carolina. The Gibbes Museum of Art holds a collection of his photographs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gibbesmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/bycreator?keyword=Cook%2C+George+LaGrange|title=Cook, George LaGrange – American}}</ref> He took a range of images: buildings, residences, streets, and portraits.
==Biography== Born in 1849 in Charleston, South Carolina, George LaGrange Cook was the eldest son of George S. Cook, a pioneering American photographer, and his first wife Elizabeth. (She died in 1864). Soon after his mother's death, his father married again, to his mother's niece Lavinia Pratt. They had several children together, including Cook's half-brother, Huestis P. Cook (1868–1951).<ref name="opinionator">{{cite news |title=The Southern Matthew Brady |url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/the-southern-matthew-brady/?ref=opinion |newspaper=New York Times |date=February 11, 2011 |access-date=2011-02-12 }}</ref>
Cook became a photographer like his father and became established in Charleston. In 1880 his father moved with younger members of the family to Richmond, Virginia.<ref name="opinionator"/> Cook took over his Charleston studio at 281 King Street.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu:cook|title=Through the Lens of Time | VCU Libraries Digital Collections|website=digital.library.vcu.edu}}</ref> He later relocated to 265 King Street.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zW0KNfn_RjcC&q=%22George+LaGrange+Cook%22&pg=PA138|title=Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers, 1840–1940|first=Harvey S.|last=Teal|date=2001|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=9781570033841|via=Google Books}}</ref>
After the 1886 Charleston earthquake, Cook produced a series of photos titled ''Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://charlestonmag.com/features/telling_tales|title=Telling Tales |work= Charleston Magazine|date=September 24, 2019}}</ref> He moved to Richmond about 1890, joining other members of the family.<ref name="opinionator"/>
His younger brother Huestis P. Cook (1868–1951) became a photographer in Richmond, working there for 60 years. After their father died in 1902, Huestis took over his studio in Richmond. Huestis is known for his photographs of people of all classes in Richmond and its area, in addition to landscapes and buildings. Together the two men amassed a collection of images spanning nearly 100 years. The Valentine, a museum of Richmond, bought the collection in 1954.<ref name="scott">{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4246107|title=Reviewed Work: ''Shadows in Silver: A Record of Virginia, 1850–1900, in Contemporary Photographs Taken by George and Huestis Cook with Additions from the Cook Collection'', by A. Lawrence Kocher, Howard Dearstyne|last=Scott| first=Mary Wingfield| journal=The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography|volume= 63 |number=1 |date=Jan 1955|jstor=4246107|access-date=16 Feb 2021}}</ref>
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