According to the cemetery office, this burial is unmarked. The row photo shows the area, Doris' grave is near the end, close to the shrubs.
----------
Her entire family were photographers in Louisville, KY and she specialized in sports photos, including boxing, harness and track racing, plus photography of prize livestock.
----------
Courier Journal newspaper, Louisville, KY
Saturday 15 September 1923; Page 3, Columns 4/5
Some of the winners in the State Fair Baby Show yesterday. With 514 entries,
the contest was the largest in the eleven years it has been a feature in the exposition.
with large b&w photo of baby show winners
INCLUDING:
Below - Kenneth and Genevieve Kuprion, first twins, 12 to 24 months, with their mother, Mrs. Arthur E. Kuprion, 2615 West Broadway.
----------
Doris Kuprion
Obituary
KUPRION, Doris 88, of St. Petersburg, died Feb. 19, 2011. She is survived by brother, Bob and niece, Sandy Kuprion-Thomas. Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home.
Published in the Tampa Bay Times on February 24, 2011
(Sandra Marie Kuprion and Doris G. Kuprion are 1st cousins 1 time removed. Their common ancestors are Charles Karl Kuprion Sr. and Anna Marie Rogginger.)
----------
Courier-Journal - Tuesday, June 5, 1945 - Sports Section, Page 1
photo of Doris Kuprion
caption under photo - CRASHES PRESS BOX - Doris Kuprion is the only girl who'll get into the press box at Churchill Downs Derby Day. She's pinch-hitting for her brother in service and helps her daddy make pictures of those close finishes so hard on the finger nails.
Doris is a Lady
But She Gets In the Press Box Derby Day To Pinch Hit for Brother As Photo-Finisher
by Jerry McNerney, Courier-Journal Staff Writer
The press box at Churchill Downs is no place for a lady on Derby Day. The management says so and Abe Newburger, burly guardian of the door that leads to one of man's last domains guarantees it.
It makes no difference what titles, rank or money the gals pull on Abe, they don't get by. Except one.
She's Miss Doris Kuprion, pretty blue-eyed daughter of the man who takes all those photo-finish pictures to convince you that the placing judges are right, Arthur Kuprion.
But even Doris doesn't tarry in the press box - just long enough to nod and smile to the boys she knows. Then she climbs high up to the little coop above the judge's stand where she develops and prints the hundreds of pictures her dad shoots.
And with her dad's camera shooting away at the rate of 185 pictures a second, she's got a man-sized job. And that's what it was before the war called her brother, Lt. Arthur Kuprion, Jr., troop carrier pilot, who was wounded in a mission over the Rhine.
But Doris is filling his shoes. There is no hitch. Forty-five seconds after the race is run, she has developed the pictures and is showing them to the judges on their special screen. A few minutes later the picture is "screened" for the customers in both the grandstand and clubhouse.
Courier-Journal - Sunday, October 16, 1949 - Section 4, Page 9
Ladies Day . . .
Photography Quite Natural For Doris ---- It's In Family
By Mary Phyllis Riedley
Photographer Doris Kuprion is in a class all by herself. She's the only member of the female species who is allowed to enter the inner sanctum of the Churchill Downs press box.
"But I'll let you in on a little secret," sighed the attractive shutter gal. "Despite my envious press-box view, I have never seen a Kentucky Derby. I'm always too busy helping Dad in the photo-finish room."
Doris' dad is Arthur Kuprion, who invented the photo-finish camera, now used at more than half the tracks in the country.
Gay . . . Mad?
While we had Doris is a secret-revealing mood, our curiosity prompted us to ask just what sort of gay, mad things go on in the mysterious man's world . . . the press box.
"To tell you the truth," laughed Doris, "the only gay thing I saw was Marvin Gay, the Louisville Times sports writer. Those fellows are a somber bunch. All you gals are missing is a little colorful cussing."
Doris, who at the moment sports the title of official track photographer at the Fairgrounds Speedway, is partial to the title a friend tagged her with.
"She always introduces me as a sports photographer," said Doris, "and I guess that's my line."
Goes In For News
Actually, Doris is also a crackerjack news photographer, too, and shoots for I.N.S. and the U.P. Her most exciting news assignment to date was the explosion at International Harvester several years ago.
"All the while I was getting those pictures," Doris recalled, "I was praying that the early blowup I did that day would be in the dark room. Guess I'm just not the adventurous type."
Doris also covers boxing and wrestling and does publicity photos for the Louisville Division of Recreation and her favorite, the Golden Gloves.
"Nope," Doris exclaimed, "nothing exciting had ever happened to me at ringside. I've never been squashed by a wrestler or hit by a boxer and , you know something, I prefer to keep it that way."
She's Used To It
We heard someone remark that he bet Doris feels silly sitting on the post at the Speedway finish line, waiting to snap the finish. Well, does she?
"Not any more," confided Doris. "You get used to making a fool of yourself."
Doris comes from a family of photographers. Her brothers Arthur, Jr. and Robert, are photographers. Her twin brother, who was killed during the war, was a photographer - - and also her uncles. We asked if her mother was a camera bug too.
"Heavens, no," yelled Doris. "Mother hates photography. Altogether, there have been 20 in the family and that is 19 too many as far as mom is concerned."
photo of Doris with the caption: Doris Kuprion - The Cussing Was Colorful
Courier-Journal - Sunday, June 28, 1959 - Section 2, Page 9
The Darkroom Is Her Second Home
Headline over photograph of Doris Kuprion, holding camera:
Doris Kuprion, who has photographic studio is one of the 15 photographers in her family
By Dot Tellitall
Although Doris Kuprion thought she would be a gym teacher, it was almost inevitable that she should become a photographer. There are 15 photographers in her family and Doris virtually was weaned in a darkroom and cut her first tooth on a camera.
Doris now has her own studio and does a snapping business in both commercial and portrait work. Her grandmother was a business woman too. She started the first costume store in the South.
During the war, Doris was a professional photographer for a war plant here, and put out about 10 prints a day for them. Then she worked for a distillery here as the only photographer for all the plants. she started photographing cattle when she went to the company's experimental farm.
"Cattle are really tough to photograph," she said. "You have to make their backs look straight. I put a board under their front feet so they arch their backs, and then pile straw around their legs."
Horses Take Time
"For horses, you have to watch the separation of their legs, and see that their tail and ears are up. I took 2 hours to photograph one yearling last week. I was perspiring, the man was yanking on the horse, and the horse was excited."
She also has traveled between here and Chicago with her father taking race-track pictures. At the trotting races here, she too pictures in the winner's circle while her father did the photo finish, a process he had developed, upstairs.
Doris also takes movies of races. And she probably was the first woman admitted to the press box at Churchill Downs.
"There's only one bad thing about having a family of photographers," she said. "I can't keep black felt hats around the house. I bought a $25 black felt hat, and when I wanted to wear it, I couldn't find it. I looked all over, and finally found it - cut up in pieces to keep the light out of my father's camera."
"Having her own studio, Doris takes everything from pictures of babies to furniture and horses. Her younger brother, Bob, who is 13, sometimes helps her. Among her commercial accounts are paint, door, chair, and oil companies, a mill, and a union.
When asked about her knowledge of machines, she said, "I've been around machines enough to at least know a generator from an engine and to know something about stress analysis."
Some of her other work may be covering conventions, doing legal work such as divorce cases, death cases, boxing-club shows, track meets, and basketball teams. She is photo correspondent for Acme and International News Service for this area.
"I work about 16 hours a day," Doris said. "I may get a call at midnight and have to go out. You have to get them while they're hot! Once I was getting a home permanent and heard a fire call. I had to rush out with my hair in a scarf, half permanented(sic), and in old blue jeans."
"I usually wear slacks when I'm working. One time I didn't have on my slacks and had to climb up about 100 feet on a roof to take pictures for a roofing company. It was O.K. going up, but I sure had a hard time coming down."
"Another time, I had to climb up in a viaduct. I'm afraid of heights, and I got frozen. My brother had to come get me down."
"There's never a dull moment being a photographer. I love it!"
----------
From Family Search.com
Kentucky, Death Records, 1911-1955
name: John Joseph Jr. Douglas
event: Death
event date: 1948
event place: Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky
gender: Male
father: John Joseph Sr. Douglas
mother: Dixie Lovan
spouse: Mrs. Doris Kuprion Douglas
volume/page/certificate number: fn 14633
----------
Rootsweb; KY Death Index
DOUGLAS JR - JOHN - J
Age: 028
Resident: JEFFERSON
County of Death: JEFFERSON
Date of Death: 9 July 1948
KY Death Certificate: #030-14633-1948
----------
Her entire family were photographers in Louisville, KY and she specialized in sports photos, including boxing, harness and track racing, plus photography of prize livestock.
----------
Courier Journal newspaper, Louisville, KY
Saturday 15 September 1923; Page 3, Columns 4/5
Some of the winners in the State Fair Baby Show yesterday. With 514 entries,
the contest was the largest in the eleven years it has been a feature in the exposition.
with large b&w photo of baby show winners
INCLUDING:
Below - Kenneth and Genevieve Kuprion, first twins, 12 to 24 months, with their mother, Mrs. Arthur E. Kuprion, 2615 West Broadway.
----------
Doris Kuprion
Obituary
KUPRION, Doris 88, of St. Petersburg, died Feb. 19, 2011. She is survived by brother, Bob and niece, Sandy Kuprion-Thomas. Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home.
Published in the Tampa Bay Times on February 24, 2011
(Sandra Marie Kuprion and Doris G. Kuprion are 1st cousins 1 time removed. Their common ancestors are Charles Karl Kuprion Sr. and Anna Marie Rogginger.)
----------
Courier-Journal - Tuesday, June 5, 1945 - Sports Section, Page 1
photo of Doris Kuprion
caption under photo - CRASHES PRESS BOX - Doris Kuprion is the only girl who'll get into the press box at Churchill Downs Derby Day. She's pinch-hitting for her brother in service and helps her daddy make pictures of those close finishes so hard on the finger nails.
Doris is a Lady
But She Gets In the Press Box Derby Day To Pinch Hit for Brother As Photo-Finisher
by Jerry McNerney, Courier-Journal Staff Writer
The press box at Churchill Downs is no place for a lady on Derby Day. The management says so and Abe Newburger, burly guardian of the door that leads to one of man's last domains guarantees it.
It makes no difference what titles, rank or money the gals pull on Abe, they don't get by. Except one.
She's Miss Doris Kuprion, pretty blue-eyed daughter of the man who takes all those photo-finish pictures to convince you that the placing judges are right, Arthur Kuprion.
But even Doris doesn't tarry in the press box - just long enough to nod and smile to the boys she knows. Then she climbs high up to the little coop above the judge's stand where she develops and prints the hundreds of pictures her dad shoots.
And with her dad's camera shooting away at the rate of 185 pictures a second, she's got a man-sized job. And that's what it was before the war called her brother, Lt. Arthur Kuprion, Jr., troop carrier pilot, who was wounded in a mission over the Rhine.
But Doris is filling his shoes. There is no hitch. Forty-five seconds after the race is run, she has developed the pictures and is showing them to the judges on their special screen. A few minutes later the picture is "screened" for the customers in both the grandstand and clubhouse.
Courier-Journal - Sunday, October 16, 1949 - Section 4, Page 9
Ladies Day . . .
Photography Quite Natural For Doris ---- It's In Family
By Mary Phyllis Riedley
Photographer Doris Kuprion is in a class all by herself. She's the only member of the female species who is allowed to enter the inner sanctum of the Churchill Downs press box.
"But I'll let you in on a little secret," sighed the attractive shutter gal. "Despite my envious press-box view, I have never seen a Kentucky Derby. I'm always too busy helping Dad in the photo-finish room."
Doris' dad is Arthur Kuprion, who invented the photo-finish camera, now used at more than half the tracks in the country.
Gay . . . Mad?
While we had Doris is a secret-revealing mood, our curiosity prompted us to ask just what sort of gay, mad things go on in the mysterious man's world . . . the press box.
"To tell you the truth," laughed Doris, "the only gay thing I saw was Marvin Gay, the Louisville Times sports writer. Those fellows are a somber bunch. All you gals are missing is a little colorful cussing."
Doris, who at the moment sports the title of official track photographer at the Fairgrounds Speedway, is partial to the title a friend tagged her with.
"She always introduces me as a sports photographer," said Doris, "and I guess that's my line."
Goes In For News
Actually, Doris is also a crackerjack news photographer, too, and shoots for I.N.S. and the U.P. Her most exciting news assignment to date was the explosion at International Harvester several years ago.
"All the while I was getting those pictures," Doris recalled, "I was praying that the early blowup I did that day would be in the dark room. Guess I'm just not the adventurous type."
Doris also covers boxing and wrestling and does publicity photos for the Louisville Division of Recreation and her favorite, the Golden Gloves.
"Nope," Doris exclaimed, "nothing exciting had ever happened to me at ringside. I've never been squashed by a wrestler or hit by a boxer and , you know something, I prefer to keep it that way."
She's Used To It
We heard someone remark that he bet Doris feels silly sitting on the post at the Speedway finish line, waiting to snap the finish. Well, does she?
"Not any more," confided Doris. "You get used to making a fool of yourself."
Doris comes from a family of photographers. Her brothers Arthur, Jr. and Robert, are photographers. Her twin brother, who was killed during the war, was a photographer - - and also her uncles. We asked if her mother was a camera bug too.
"Heavens, no," yelled Doris. "Mother hates photography. Altogether, there have been 20 in the family and that is 19 too many as far as mom is concerned."
photo of Doris with the caption: Doris Kuprion - The Cussing Was Colorful
Courier-Journal - Sunday, June 28, 1959 - Section 2, Page 9
The Darkroom Is Her Second Home
Headline over photograph of Doris Kuprion, holding camera:
Doris Kuprion, who has photographic studio is one of the 15 photographers in her family
By Dot Tellitall
Although Doris Kuprion thought she would be a gym teacher, it was almost inevitable that she should become a photographer. There are 15 photographers in her family and Doris virtually was weaned in a darkroom and cut her first tooth on a camera.
Doris now has her own studio and does a snapping business in both commercial and portrait work. Her grandmother was a business woman too. She started the first costume store in the South.
During the war, Doris was a professional photographer for a war plant here, and put out about 10 prints a day for them. Then she worked for a distillery here as the only photographer for all the plants. she started photographing cattle when she went to the company's experimental farm.
"Cattle are really tough to photograph," she said. "You have to make their backs look straight. I put a board under their front feet so they arch their backs, and then pile straw around their legs."
Horses Take Time
"For horses, you have to watch the separation of their legs, and see that their tail and ears are up. I took 2 hours to photograph one yearling last week. I was perspiring, the man was yanking on the horse, and the horse was excited."
She also has traveled between here and Chicago with her father taking race-track pictures. At the trotting races here, she too pictures in the winner's circle while her father did the photo finish, a process he had developed, upstairs.
Doris also takes movies of races. And she probably was the first woman admitted to the press box at Churchill Downs.
"There's only one bad thing about having a family of photographers," she said. "I can't keep black felt hats around the house. I bought a $25 black felt hat, and when I wanted to wear it, I couldn't find it. I looked all over, and finally found it - cut up in pieces to keep the light out of my father's camera."
"Having her own studio, Doris takes everything from pictures of babies to furniture and horses. Her younger brother, Bob, who is 13, sometimes helps her. Among her commercial accounts are paint, door, chair, and oil companies, a mill, and a union.
When asked about her knowledge of machines, she said, "I've been around machines enough to at least know a generator from an engine and to know something about stress analysis."
Some of her other work may be covering conventions, doing legal work such as divorce cases, death cases, boxing-club shows, track meets, and basketball teams. She is photo correspondent for Acme and International News Service for this area.
"I work about 16 hours a day," Doris said. "I may get a call at midnight and have to go out. You have to get them while they're hot! Once I was getting a home permanent and heard a fire call. I had to rush out with my hair in a scarf, half permanented(sic), and in old blue jeans."
"I usually wear slacks when I'm working. One time I didn't have on my slacks and had to climb up about 100 feet on a roof to take pictures for a roofing company. It was O.K. going up, but I sure had a hard time coming down."
"Another time, I had to climb up in a viaduct. I'm afraid of heights, and I got frozen. My brother had to come get me down."
"There's never a dull moment being a photographer. I love it!"
----------
From Family Search.com
Kentucky, Death Records, 1911-1955
name: John Joseph Jr. Douglas
event: Death
event date: 1948
event place: Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky
gender: Male
father: John Joseph Sr. Douglas
mother: Dixie Lovan
spouse: Mrs. Doris Kuprion Douglas
volume/page/certificate number: fn 14633
----------
Rootsweb; KY Death Index
DOUGLAS JR - JOHN - J
Age: 028
Resident: JEFFERSON
County of Death: JEFFERSON
Date of Death: 9 July 1948
KY Death Certificate: #030-14633-1948
According to the cemetery office, this burial is unmarked. The row photo shows the area, Doris' grave is near the end, close to the shrubs.
----------
Her entire family were photographers in Louisville, KY and she specialized in sports photos, including boxing, harness and track racing, plus photography of prize livestock.
----------
Courier Journal newspaper, Louisville, KY
Saturday 15 September 1923; Page 3, Columns 4/5
Some of the winners in the State Fair Baby Show yesterday. With 514 entries,
the contest was the largest in the eleven years it has been a feature in the exposition.
with large b&w photo of baby show winners
INCLUDING:
Below - Kenneth and Genevieve Kuprion, first twins, 12 to 24 months, with their mother, Mrs. Arthur E. Kuprion, 2615 West Broadway.
----------
Doris Kuprion
Obituary
KUPRION, Doris 88, of St. Petersburg, died Feb. 19, 2011. She is survived by brother, Bob and niece, Sandy Kuprion-Thomas. Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home.
Published in the Tampa Bay Times on February 24, 2011
(Sandra Marie Kuprion and Doris G. Kuprion are 1st cousins 1 time removed. Their common ancestors are Charles Karl Kuprion Sr. and Anna Marie Rogginger.)
----------
Courier-Journal - Tuesday, June 5, 1945 - Sports Section, Page 1
photo of Doris Kuprion
caption under photo - CRASHES PRESS BOX - Doris Kuprion is the only girl who'll get into the press box at Churchill Downs Derby Day. She's pinch-hitting for her brother in service and helps her daddy make pictures of those close finishes so hard on the finger nails.
Doris is a Lady
But She Gets In the Press Box Derby Day To Pinch Hit for Brother As Photo-Finisher
by Jerry McNerney, Courier-Journal Staff Writer
The press box at Churchill Downs is no place for a lady on Derby Day. The management says so and Abe Newburger, burly guardian of the door that leads to one of man's last domains guarantees it.
It makes no difference what titles, rank or money the gals pull on Abe, they don't get by. Except one.
She's Miss Doris Kuprion, pretty blue-eyed daughter of the man who takes all those photo-finish pictures to convince you that the placing judges are right, Arthur Kuprion.
But even Doris doesn't tarry in the press box - just long enough to nod and smile to the boys she knows. Then she climbs high up to the little coop above the judge's stand where she develops and prints the hundreds of pictures her dad shoots.
And with her dad's camera shooting away at the rate of 185 pictures a second, she's got a man-sized job. And that's what it was before the war called her brother, Lt. Arthur Kuprion, Jr., troop carrier pilot, who was wounded in a mission over the Rhine.
But Doris is filling his shoes. There is no hitch. Forty-five seconds after the race is run, she has developed the pictures and is showing them to the judges on their special screen. A few minutes later the picture is "screened" for the customers in both the grandstand and clubhouse.
Courier-Journal - Sunday, October 16, 1949 - Section 4, Page 9
Ladies Day . . .
Photography Quite Natural For Doris ---- It's In Family
By Mary Phyllis Riedley
Photographer Doris Kuprion is in a class all by herself. She's the only member of the female species who is allowed to enter the inner sanctum of the Churchill Downs press box.
"But I'll let you in on a little secret," sighed the attractive shutter gal. "Despite my envious press-box view, I have never seen a Kentucky Derby. I'm always too busy helping Dad in the photo-finish room."
Doris' dad is Arthur Kuprion, who invented the photo-finish camera, now used at more than half the tracks in the country.
Gay . . . Mad?
While we had Doris is a secret-revealing mood, our curiosity prompted us to ask just what sort of gay, mad things go on in the mysterious man's world . . . the press box.
"To tell you the truth," laughed Doris, "the only gay thing I saw was Marvin Gay, the Louisville Times sports writer. Those fellows are a somber bunch. All you gals are missing is a little colorful cussing."
Doris, who at the moment sports the title of official track photographer at the Fairgrounds Speedway, is partial to the title a friend tagged her with.
"She always introduces me as a sports photographer," said Doris, "and I guess that's my line."
Goes In For News
Actually, Doris is also a crackerjack news photographer, too, and shoots for I.N.S. and the U.P. Her most exciting news assignment to date was the explosion at International Harvester several years ago.
"All the while I was getting those pictures," Doris recalled, "I was praying that the early blowup I did that day would be in the dark room. Guess I'm just not the adventurous type."
Doris also covers boxing and wrestling and does publicity photos for the Louisville Division of Recreation and her favorite, the Golden Gloves.
"Nope," Doris exclaimed, "nothing exciting had ever happened to me at ringside. I've never been squashed by a wrestler or hit by a boxer and , you know something, I prefer to keep it that way."
She's Used To It
We heard someone remark that he bet Doris feels silly sitting on the post at the Speedway finish line, waiting to snap the finish. Well, does she?
"Not any more," confided Doris. "You get used to making a fool of yourself."
Doris comes from a family of photographers. Her brothers Arthur, Jr. and Robert, are photographers. Her twin brother, who was killed during the war, was a photographer - - and also her uncles. We asked if her mother was a camera bug too.
"Heavens, no," yelled Doris. "Mother hates photography. Altogether, there have been 20 in the family and that is 19 too many as far as mom is concerned."
photo of Doris with the caption: Doris Kuprion - The Cussing Was Colorful
Courier-Journal - Sunday, June 28, 1959 - Section 2, Page 9
The Darkroom Is Her Second Home
Headline over photograph of Doris Kuprion, holding camera:
Doris Kuprion, who has photographic studio is one of the 15 photographers in her family
By Dot Tellitall
Although Doris Kuprion thought she would be a gym teacher, it was almost inevitable that she should become a photographer. There are 15 photographers in her family and Doris virtually was weaned in a darkroom and cut her first tooth on a camera.
Doris now has her own studio and does a snapping business in both commercial and portrait work. Her grandmother was a business woman too. She started the first costume store in the South.
During the war, Doris was a professional photographer for a war plant here, and put out about 10 prints a day for them. Then she worked for a distillery here as the only photographer for all the plants. she started photographing cattle when she went to the company's experimental farm.
"Cattle are really tough to photograph," she said. "You have to make their backs look straight. I put a board under their front feet so they arch their backs, and then pile straw around their legs."
Horses Take Time
"For horses, you have to watch the separation of their legs, and see that their tail and ears are up. I took 2 hours to photograph one yearling last week. I was perspiring, the man was yanking on the horse, and the horse was excited."
She also has traveled between here and Chicago with her father taking race-track pictures. At the trotting races here, she too pictures in the winner's circle while her father did the photo finish, a process he had developed, upstairs.
Doris also takes movies of races. And she probably was the first woman admitted to the press box at Churchill Downs.
"There's only one bad thing about having a family of photographers," she said. "I can't keep black felt hats around the house. I bought a $25 black felt hat, and when I wanted to wear it, I couldn't find it. I looked all over, and finally found it - cut up in pieces to keep the light out of my father's camera."
"Having her own studio, Doris takes everything from pictures of babies to furniture and horses. Her younger brother, Bob, who is 13, sometimes helps her. Among her commercial accounts are paint, door, chair, and oil companies, a mill, and a union.
When asked about her knowledge of machines, she said, "I've been around machines enough to at least know a generator from an engine and to know something about stress analysis."
Some of her other work may be covering conventions, doing legal work such as divorce cases, death cases, boxing-club shows, track meets, and basketball teams. She is photo correspondent for Acme and International News Service for this area.
"I work about 16 hours a day," Doris said. "I may get a call at midnight and have to go out. You have to get them while they're hot! Once I was getting a home permanent and heard a fire call. I had to rush out with my hair in a scarf, half permanented(sic), and in old blue jeans."
"I usually wear slacks when I'm working. One time I didn't have on my slacks and had to climb up about 100 feet on a roof to take pictures for a roofing company. It was O.K. going up, but I sure had a hard time coming down."
"Another time, I had to climb up in a viaduct. I'm afraid of heights, and I got frozen. My brother had to come get me down."
"There's never a dull moment being a photographer. I love it!"
----------
From Family Search.com
Kentucky, Death Records, 1911-1955
name: John Joseph Jr. Douglas
event: Death
event date: 1948
event place: Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky
gender: Male
father: John Joseph Sr. Douglas
mother: Dixie Lovan
spouse: Mrs. Doris Kuprion Douglas
volume/page/certificate number: fn 14633
----------
Rootsweb; KY Death Index
DOUGLAS JR - JOHN - J
Age: 028
Resident: JEFFERSON
County of Death: JEFFERSON
Date of Death: 9 July 1948
KY Death Certificate: #030-14633-1948
----------
Her entire family were photographers in Louisville, KY and she specialized in sports photos, including boxing, harness and track racing, plus photography of prize livestock.
----------
Courier Journal newspaper, Louisville, KY
Saturday 15 September 1923; Page 3, Columns 4/5
Some of the winners in the State Fair Baby Show yesterday. With 514 entries,
the contest was the largest in the eleven years it has been a feature in the exposition.
with large b&w photo of baby show winners
INCLUDING:
Below - Kenneth and Genevieve Kuprion, first twins, 12 to 24 months, with their mother, Mrs. Arthur E. Kuprion, 2615 West Broadway.
----------
Doris Kuprion
Obituary
KUPRION, Doris 88, of St. Petersburg, died Feb. 19, 2011. She is survived by brother, Bob and niece, Sandy Kuprion-Thomas. Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home.
Published in the Tampa Bay Times on February 24, 2011
(Sandra Marie Kuprion and Doris G. Kuprion are 1st cousins 1 time removed. Their common ancestors are Charles Karl Kuprion Sr. and Anna Marie Rogginger.)
----------
Courier-Journal - Tuesday, June 5, 1945 - Sports Section, Page 1
photo of Doris Kuprion
caption under photo - CRASHES PRESS BOX - Doris Kuprion is the only girl who'll get into the press box at Churchill Downs Derby Day. She's pinch-hitting for her brother in service and helps her daddy make pictures of those close finishes so hard on the finger nails.
Doris is a Lady
But She Gets In the Press Box Derby Day To Pinch Hit for Brother As Photo-Finisher
by Jerry McNerney, Courier-Journal Staff Writer
The press box at Churchill Downs is no place for a lady on Derby Day. The management says so and Abe Newburger, burly guardian of the door that leads to one of man's last domains guarantees it.
It makes no difference what titles, rank or money the gals pull on Abe, they don't get by. Except one.
She's Miss Doris Kuprion, pretty blue-eyed daughter of the man who takes all those photo-finish pictures to convince you that the placing judges are right, Arthur Kuprion.
But even Doris doesn't tarry in the press box - just long enough to nod and smile to the boys she knows. Then she climbs high up to the little coop above the judge's stand where she develops and prints the hundreds of pictures her dad shoots.
And with her dad's camera shooting away at the rate of 185 pictures a second, she's got a man-sized job. And that's what it was before the war called her brother, Lt. Arthur Kuprion, Jr., troop carrier pilot, who was wounded in a mission over the Rhine.
But Doris is filling his shoes. There is no hitch. Forty-five seconds after the race is run, she has developed the pictures and is showing them to the judges on their special screen. A few minutes later the picture is "screened" for the customers in both the grandstand and clubhouse.
Courier-Journal - Sunday, October 16, 1949 - Section 4, Page 9
Ladies Day . . .
Photography Quite Natural For Doris ---- It's In Family
By Mary Phyllis Riedley
Photographer Doris Kuprion is in a class all by herself. She's the only member of the female species who is allowed to enter the inner sanctum of the Churchill Downs press box.
"But I'll let you in on a little secret," sighed the attractive shutter gal. "Despite my envious press-box view, I have never seen a Kentucky Derby. I'm always too busy helping Dad in the photo-finish room."
Doris' dad is Arthur Kuprion, who invented the photo-finish camera, now used at more than half the tracks in the country.
Gay . . . Mad?
While we had Doris is a secret-revealing mood, our curiosity prompted us to ask just what sort of gay, mad things go on in the mysterious man's world . . . the press box.
"To tell you the truth," laughed Doris, "the only gay thing I saw was Marvin Gay, the Louisville Times sports writer. Those fellows are a somber bunch. All you gals are missing is a little colorful cussing."
Doris, who at the moment sports the title of official track photographer at the Fairgrounds Speedway, is partial to the title a friend tagged her with.
"She always introduces me as a sports photographer," said Doris, "and I guess that's my line."
Goes In For News
Actually, Doris is also a crackerjack news photographer, too, and shoots for I.N.S. and the U.P. Her most exciting news assignment to date was the explosion at International Harvester several years ago.
"All the while I was getting those pictures," Doris recalled, "I was praying that the early blowup I did that day would be in the dark room. Guess I'm just not the adventurous type."
Doris also covers boxing and wrestling and does publicity photos for the Louisville Division of Recreation and her favorite, the Golden Gloves.
"Nope," Doris exclaimed, "nothing exciting had ever happened to me at ringside. I've never been squashed by a wrestler or hit by a boxer and , you know something, I prefer to keep it that way."
She's Used To It
We heard someone remark that he bet Doris feels silly sitting on the post at the Speedway finish line, waiting to snap the finish. Well, does she?
"Not any more," confided Doris. "You get used to making a fool of yourself."
Doris comes from a family of photographers. Her brothers Arthur, Jr. and Robert, are photographers. Her twin brother, who was killed during the war, was a photographer - - and also her uncles. We asked if her mother was a camera bug too.
"Heavens, no," yelled Doris. "Mother hates photography. Altogether, there have been 20 in the family and that is 19 too many as far as mom is concerned."
photo of Doris with the caption: Doris Kuprion - The Cussing Was Colorful
Courier-Journal - Sunday, June 28, 1959 - Section 2, Page 9
The Darkroom Is Her Second Home
Headline over photograph of Doris Kuprion, holding camera:
Doris Kuprion, who has photographic studio is one of the 15 photographers in her family
By Dot Tellitall
Although Doris Kuprion thought she would be a gym teacher, it was almost inevitable that she should become a photographer. There are 15 photographers in her family and Doris virtually was weaned in a darkroom and cut her first tooth on a camera.
Doris now has her own studio and does a snapping business in both commercial and portrait work. Her grandmother was a business woman too. She started the first costume store in the South.
During the war, Doris was a professional photographer for a war plant here, and put out about 10 prints a day for them. Then she worked for a distillery here as the only photographer for all the plants. she started photographing cattle when she went to the company's experimental farm.
"Cattle are really tough to photograph," she said. "You have to make their backs look straight. I put a board under their front feet so they arch their backs, and then pile straw around their legs."
Horses Take Time
"For horses, you have to watch the separation of their legs, and see that their tail and ears are up. I took 2 hours to photograph one yearling last week. I was perspiring, the man was yanking on the horse, and the horse was excited."
She also has traveled between here and Chicago with her father taking race-track pictures. At the trotting races here, she too pictures in the winner's circle while her father did the photo finish, a process he had developed, upstairs.
Doris also takes movies of races. And she probably was the first woman admitted to the press box at Churchill Downs.
"There's only one bad thing about having a family of photographers," she said. "I can't keep black felt hats around the house. I bought a $25 black felt hat, and when I wanted to wear it, I couldn't find it. I looked all over, and finally found it - cut up in pieces to keep the light out of my father's camera."
"Having her own studio, Doris takes everything from pictures of babies to furniture and horses. Her younger brother, Bob, who is 13, sometimes helps her. Among her commercial accounts are paint, door, chair, and oil companies, a mill, and a union.
When asked about her knowledge of machines, she said, "I've been around machines enough to at least know a generator from an engine and to know something about stress analysis."
Some of her other work may be covering conventions, doing legal work such as divorce cases, death cases, boxing-club shows, track meets, and basketball teams. She is photo correspondent for Acme and International News Service for this area.
"I work about 16 hours a day," Doris said. "I may get a call at midnight and have to go out. You have to get them while they're hot! Once I was getting a home permanent and heard a fire call. I had to rush out with my hair in a scarf, half permanented(sic), and in old blue jeans."
"I usually wear slacks when I'm working. One time I didn't have on my slacks and had to climb up about 100 feet on a roof to take pictures for a roofing company. It was O.K. going up, but I sure had a hard time coming down."
"Another time, I had to climb up in a viaduct. I'm afraid of heights, and I got frozen. My brother had to come get me down."
"There's never a dull moment being a photographer. I love it!"
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From Family Search.com
Kentucky, Death Records, 1911-1955
name: John Joseph Jr. Douglas
event: Death
event date: 1948
event place: Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky
gender: Male
father: John Joseph Sr. Douglas
mother: Dixie Lovan
spouse: Mrs. Doris Kuprion Douglas
volume/page/certificate number: fn 14633
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Rootsweb; KY Death Index
DOUGLAS JR - JOHN - J
Age: 028
Resident: JEFFERSON
County of Death: JEFFERSON
Date of Death: 9 July 1948
KY Death Certificate: #030-14633-1948
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