James Caufield and Frank W. Shook were

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photographers who founded an eponymous photography studio in

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in 1903. Their firm focused on local Louisville scenes. It became the official photographer of the

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in 1924. The business was sold in 1960 and ceased operation in 1978. A catalog of the firm's works titled the ''Caufield & Shook Collection'', consisting of more than one million negatives and 2,000 vintage prints, is housed at the University of Louisville Photographic Archives.

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