Names: | Born: Elias Olcott Beaman
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| Dates: | 1837 - 1876 | Active: | US |
American photographer active in the 1870s.
Stereographs project Business locations New York City, NY, US Philadelphia, PA, US Salt Lake City, UT, US [7] *"Photographer"; "76 Centennial Exposition of Philadelphia", issued uncommon Phila. scy.; made unauth. views of Cent. Expo.; photog. for
Powell Survey, series of 59 with B/L pub. by
Haworth & McCollin, Phila. & by Powell Survey
and Anthony; quit the survey and continued
photographing Grand Canyon, Hopi Mesas; scy.,
animals, Indians. Also issued a rare group of
"Scenes on the Upper Hudson and the Adirondack
Mountains", with B/L of 65 views, some of which
are identical to views issued by Anthony Co.,
source unknown. His images were extensively pirated by C.W. Woodward, Union View Co., etc. 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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