Names: | | Dates: | 1860, 20 October - 1928, 9 May | Born: | US, UT, Salt Lake City | Died: | US, UT, Springville | Active: | US | Apprenticed with Charles Roscoe Savage in 1874 and opened his own studio at age seventeen. He travelled widely in Utah from the 1870s onwards. In 1900 he recorded the aftermath of the Scofield mine disaster.
There are substantial holdings of his glass plate negatives at the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.
Stereographs project Business locations Salt Lake City, UT, US Scofield, UT, US Springville, UT, US [8-0] [George Edward Anderson] "G.E. Anderson Art Bazaar"; issued views throughout central UT; said to have issued some of Canadian NW Mounted
Police; many of people; 00 mine tragedy,
Scofield, views credited to Bedlington Lewis,
local photog.; photog. history of the Mormon
church; worked mostly in SI formats; said to
have had tens of thousands of negs. Learned
photog. from C.R. Savage; worked first in Salt
Lake City, then in early 80's Springville; B.
60, D. 28. For more info. SEE Nelson B.
Wadsworth "Through Camera Eyes", Brigham Young
Univ. Press, 1975); Rell G. Francis, "G.E. Anderson," Popular Photography 77 (1975). 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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