Names: | Other: Samuel T. Blessing Other: Samuel Tobias Blessing
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Stereographs project Business locations New Orleans, LA, US [5-7] *[Samuel T. Blessing] "Published by...";
87 Canal St. & 24 Charters St.; Photographic
Supply House & Pub., 63-69; issued several exc.
series: "New Orleans Summer Resorts"; "Views of
New Orleans, La. & Vicinity"; "Louisiana
Scenery"; "New Orleans in the Stereoscope";
"City of the Dead", views of cemeteries in New
Orleans; several B/Ls, consistently fine major
coverage, 700+ numbers, city scenes, steamboats,
river front, Mardi Gras, hunting/fishing,
animals, flowers/plants, Indians. Partnership
with Samuel Anderson, 56-63; some doubt as to
how many views were by Blessing or his photogs.,
and how many from other sources; he seems to
have been primarily a publisher, especially
after parting from Anderson; some views have
only notation of "Sold by...". B. 32, D. 97, St
Louis, MO. 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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