Names: | Other: Wallace Goodridge Other: William Goodridge
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| Active: | US | Stereoscopic photographer, backlists on stereoviews. Active: East Saginaw, Mich.
Stereographs project Business locations East Saginaw, MI, US [6-7] [William & Wallace Goodridge]
"Photographers"; "Publishers of Plain, Colored
and Glass Stereoscopic Views"; "Largest Ground
Floor Gallery in the State"; 220-222 South
Washington Ave.; used NPA logo (National
Photographers Association); "Picturesque
Michigan"; "Saginaw Valley Views"; "Scenes in
the Pineries", etc.; city/rural scy., lumbering,
Orion lake, bldgs., etc.; B/Ls, ~900, but #s
seen to 5,100s; on RMs, mainly MI; also made SI
formats. Prob. first black men to become
professional photogs.; first studio at 104 North
Washington was destroyed by fire; prob. related
to G.J. Goodridge of York, PA who was active in
early to mid-60s, but this not confirmed. For
more info see "The Goodridge Brothers: Saginaw's
Pioneer Photographers", catalog (Saginaw Art
Museum, 1982). 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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