| Names: | | | Dates: | 1844 - 1894 | | Born: | Canada | | Active: | Canada / US |
Canadian photographer best known for the over 800 early negatives he did at Niagara Falls including some mammoth plate views.
Stereographs project
Business locations
Niagara Falls, NY, US
London, Ontario, Canada
[5-9] *"Photographer"; 11 Main St.; "View Manufactory & Photographic Rooms", estab. 70; "Imperial Stereograph by..."; Issued several
series: "Gems of Instantaneous Photography";
"American, Foreign, Genre. & Comic"; "...'s Stereoscopic Gems of American Scenery",
"American Scenery-Niagara Falls"; "Disfigured
Banks" series, views of Niagara Falls; major
photog. & publisher; issued 600+ common views,
earlier primarily fine ones of Niagara & Ontario
area, on paper & glass; pirated or bought views
of other areas such as FL, CA, CO during last 2
decades; series of ~20 on 89 Johnstown flood;
Oil Creek Disaster, Louisville Cyclone,
Columbian Expo., comedy views, some views CR by
R.Y. Young; negs. purchased by U&U after his D.
in 94. B. London, Ont. Can., 44; learned
photog. from James Egan there, ~57; in 62 set up
studio in London; moved in 63 to Niagara; worked
for Babbitt there before going into business for
himself ~65; said to have made first paper
stereos of falls area. Awarded 11 1st prize
medals over the years, U.S. & foreign. APB
(1888), p. 488.
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association) |
| Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others. |
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