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Names: | | Dates: | 1832 - 1905 | Born: | England | Active: | US | In 1864 during the American Civil War he made a series of stereocards of the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Photographed a series of stereographs under the auspices of the Union Pacific Railroad Company (UPRR) in the USA in October 1866 of the "Union Pacific Railroad Excursion to the 100th Meridian."
Stereographs project Business locations Chicago, IL, US Philadelphia, PA, US [6-8] *"Photographer"; "Photographed and Published by..."; various Chicago & Phila.
addresses. Important & prolific photographer
with long career; B. England, 32; emigrated to
Chicago and opened first studio, 61; lost entire
studio and stock of negs in fire of 71; moved to
Philadelphia, 71; formed American Photo-Relief
Printing Co. to produce prints by Woodburytype;
later worked in dry plates, X-ray photog., D.
Philadelphia 05. Issued "Glimpses of The Great
West" to #55; "Views of Minnesota & Vicinity",
yellow RMs to #165; "Under The Auspices of the
NW Packet Co.", on SCMs; "Views of Chicago" on
SCMs to #183; "Views of the Rocky Mountains"; "A
Journey to the 100th Meridian", ~300 views of
scenes and life along the Union Pacific R.R.
during 67, Escanaba, Clarksburg, Goose Lake,
etc.; "Stereographs of Chicago", Lake, tunnel,
etc., ~64; "Beauties of the Upper Mississippi,
Minnesota & Vicinity"; North-Western Sanitary
Fair, Chicago, 65; views of Niagara, 60's; views
of Omaha, NE, 66; SEE "Philadelphia
Photographers 1840-1900" by William & Marie Brey
& STEREO WORLD "A Carbutt Chronology", Vol 9,
No. 3, 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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