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HomeContents > People > Photographers > L.H. Heller

Names:
Other: Louis Herman Heller 
Dates:  1839 - 1928
Active:  US
 
  
 
  
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Yreka, CA, US 
Fort Jones, CA, US 
 
  
[6-9] [Louis Herman Heller] "Photographer"; "Stereoscopic Views"; genre & scy., uncommon [15], Fort Jones area, mining, etc.; first to record Modoc War with 24 views on RMs in 73, negs. later obtained by C.E. Watkins; first to pub. his views in a national journal. B. Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, 8/11/39; thought to have been in NY, 55 and in 62 reached Yreka; naturalized 64; 64 established his own studio in Yreka but by 69 had relocated to Fort Jones and remained there until 00; was druggist and embalmer; also served as Justice of the Peace and Postmaster of Fort Jones; D. 6/25/28, and reportedly destroyed all his negs shortly before his demise; Heller home and studio still stands on Main Street, Fort Jones. 
  
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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