Names: | | Dates: | 1838 - 1919 | Born: | US, NH, Hanover | Died: | US, OR, Portland | Active: | US | Stereoscopic photographer, backlists on stereoviews. Active: Sycamore, Ill.
Stereographs project Business locations Concord, NH, US Sycamore, IL, US Petaluma, CA, US San Francisco, CA, US [6-8] [Lewis Dowe, also seen as Dow] "Portrait & Landscape Photographer"; "Portrait & View Photographer", "Photographed and Published by..."; issued several series but views
generally uncommon: "New Hampshire Scenery",
B/L of 107 views; "Stereoscopic Views of
Petaluma & Vicinity"; "Chicago in Ruins after
the great Conflagration of Oct. 9th, 1871",
[40]; many of CA, Chinese procession, Petaluma,
S.F., Woodward's Gardens. B. NH 38; operated in
Concord 62 to about 72; had studio in Petaluma
77-80; moved to San Francisco ~83; had various
studios there in 80s; 04 listed as musical inst.
repairer; unclear when he was located in IL must
have been in mid-70s; possible also that he
never had studio there but either visited after
fire or issued views of it by some other photog.
In partnership with A.J. McDonald in San
Francisco 80s. 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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