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HomeContents > People > Photographers > I.T. Coffin

Names:
Other: Isaac Tibbets Coffin 
Joint: Coffin & Jacobs 
Active:  US
 
  
 
  
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Snelling, CA, US 
Dutch Flat, CA, US 
 
  
[6-8] [Isaac Tibbets Coffin] Issued views of mining in Dutch Flats; views of his wife and children; one view exists of him playing cards. Difficult to separate his work from that of H.H. Halsey or the partnership of Halsey & Coffin. Active as Harmon & Coffin at Snelling 66 or 67; by spring 67 was involved with J.C. Scripture in Dutch Flat; they also started a San Francisco establishment, but Scripture left, leaving him responsible for their debts. Returned to Dutch Flat where he ran the Dutch Flat Photography gallery; also operated local waterworks; during 70s, worked in partnership with Halsey, although he also exchanged negs. with J.M. Jacobs in Dutch Flat, 70s and rented his studio to several different photogs. including Jacobs, R.C. Branin and others; sold some mining negs to C.L. Pond. Kept diary 70-86, which is source of much info. Also worked with Jacobs and Halsey in partnerships. 
  
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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