| Names: | Born: Isaiah Taber
Born: Isaiah West Taber
Other: I. West Taber
Other: I.W. Tabor
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| | Dates: | 1830 - 1912 | | Born: | US, MA, New Bedford | | Active: | US |
American photographer who early in his career worked with his brother Freeman A. Taber with a studio in Syracuse, NY, USA !857-1864. Isiah moved to San Francisco and opened a studio there in 1871. In 1876 he took over the studio of Carleton E. Watkins. Taber continued to reprint from the negatives of Carleton E. Watkins after he went bankrupt in 1873/1874. Freeman A. Taber on March 17th 1896 patented a process for "embossed photographs" and there are "Taber bass-relief" postcards.
Some of Taber's negatives were printed by Wyland Stanley in the 1950s.
Captain S.H. Jones-Parry, My Journey Round the World via Ceylon, New Zealand, Australia, Torres Straits, China, Japan, and the United States, Two Volumes (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1881), Volume II, p.145-146.
In this travel account the visit is to the studio of "Mr. Tabor" but it is presumably a misspelling of "Taber":
I must not leave this part of my journey without a word on that for which this place bears a world-wide renown; I allude to photography. The first morning after my arrival, when I got up to take in my boots, I found outside my door two envelopes addressed to me, each containing a cabinet photograph of some evidently well-known actress, and a card requesting me to visit the studio of the sender. As I had already collected a large assortment of photographic views on my travels, I now determined to add to it a collection of portraits as specimens of the art in the States. I called at several studios to make purchases, and at each place a lovely specimen of art was gratuitously given, in addition to what I bought. I think, as I have before said, that the San Francisco portraits rank first in my collection. The photographers themselves were highly intellectual men, and I owe much to Mr. Tabor and Mr. Boyd, for many pleasant moments spent in their studios. The former took the trouble to send after me to New York a duplicate of a work of art that I had much admired in his collection.
Stereographs project
Business locations
San Francisco, CA, US
[7-0] [Isaac West Taber] "Publisher"; "... Art &
Photographic Gallery"; #8 Montgomery St. Issued
"Pacific Coast Views"; pub. C.E. Watkins' old
series stereos; pub. A.C. Varela views of So.
CA; did tissue views from Watkins' negs, etc.;
pub. Muybridge views of Sitka, AK. B. 30; early
career unknown but came to San Francisco 64 and
joined the firm of Bradley & Rulofsen; after
opening his own studio, employed many staff
photogs. and pub. under his own name; acquired
Watkins negs. from that photographer's
bankruptcy, 76. Listed in San Francisco 70-00;
by 90s had studios in London and the Continent;
D. 12.
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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