Stereographs project Business locations Los Angeles, CA, US [5-8] [William M. Godfrey] "Photographer";
"...'s Photographic View Rooms";
proprietor/operator of Sunbeam Gallery, 60;
first to photog. Los Angeles extensively; beach
scenes of Santa Monica/San Pedro, Arrowhead
Springs, San Bernardino, ranches, city scy.,
camp meeting, etc. B. 24, New York City,
traveled as a child to MI then to CA arriving in
San Francisco between 51 and 53; tried placer
mining; first leased and then purchased a
daguerrean apparatus; later was dentist in San
Bernardino & D. there 11/5/00, age 75; during
his career was in partnership with Flanders in
Los Angeles, 73, Stephen Rendall, Henry T.
Payne, etc.; sold his gallery to Payne and
retired from the business; Payne con't. to pub.
his stereo negs. for years. 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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