THOM 9 | Fall / Winter 2017

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CREATOR Finding Moller Written by Jennifer Westfield Photographed by Gabriel G. Hanway Within larger historical narratives, stories are rarely islands in the stream. The more we dig, the more each becomes a hub of radial lines, connecting present to past and facilitating journeys back in time – the ones that lead us to empty houses, the names of strangers and single photographs attesting to the whole of bygone eras. This story began five years ago, when our creative director, Haile McCollum, took her family to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “We were wandering in a photography exhibit,” Haile says. “We paused in front of two small black and white photos. They were labeled as being from Thomasville. Wait. What?” The photographs, shot in the 1880s, led back to an address in downtown Thomasville and a family plot at Laurel Hill Cemetery – marking the former photography studio and final resting place of an English immigrant named A.W. Moller. Despite the scattering of his photos in major museums from sea to shining sea, the internet turns up next to nothing about Moller’s life – if you’re looking. Who was this guy? By all available accounts, Algernon Walner “Algie” Moller was no deliberate steward of American history. It’s hard to believe that anyone could have 6
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