Names: | Other: Deblois Barnum Other: Delos Barnum Other: Deloss Barnum
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Stereographs project Business locations Brooklyn, NY, US Cortland, NY, US Boston, MA, US Roxbury, MA, US [5-7] *[First name prob. Deblois; often seen as DeLoss or Delos] "Artist", "Photographer"; 132 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn; several addresses in Boston; issued early "American Historical
Series", CR 59, extremely rare; "New England"
series; issued ~800 fine views, notably of
Saratoga, Boston, NYC, genre, Niagara,
Queenstown and Quebec, Sing Sing prison; Hudson
River; on RMs; often used blind-stamp; often
scratched # into neg. First name variously
spelled in refs., and CR line on his American
Historical Series reads "Deblois Barnum". SEE
NSA Viewlist series for listing of views. Also
issued CDV, cabinet & SI prints which are much
rarer than stereos. Listed in Boston 56-59 and
Roxbury 60, worked later in NYC and Cortland.
Life relatively unknown, but one of the finest
landscape photogs.; D. early 70s. SEE Institute
for Photographic Research Monog. on him. 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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