Sam is the owner of Hyde Brothers Books on Wells Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

I was saddened to hear, after my return to Indiana, that the cat on the counter had died a few months after I made this photograph. She was a fixture at Hyde Brothers as long as I can remember, and I began shopping there as a teenager more than 15 years before this photograph was made.

They have a new cat now.

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Update: Sam Hyde passed away on July 9, 2019. He was one of the kindest, most generous people that I have ever known. When I was a young artist struggling to make enough money to live, Sam often gave me books that he thought I would like. He did the same for others, as well. There aren't many others like him, and he is missed.

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