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Names: | Other: John B. Silvis Other: John Silvis
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| Dates: | 1830, June - 1900, 1 July | Born: | US | Died: | US, FL, nr. Tallahasse | Active: | US | American railroad photographer of the nineteenth century who had a Photographic Studio on a Union Pacific Railroad car. He moved along the railroad photographing in each community and recording the local scenery.
Stereographs project Business locations Salt Lake City, UT, US Omaha, NE, US "Traveling Car"; "UPRR Photograph Car...Photographer". Issued "Views of the
Pacific R.R.", official photog. 73-76, full logo
on back; "Rocky Mountain Scenes". Listed in
Omaha 70-80. 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) |
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