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Porter’s Model Photograph Gallery and Porter’s Art Gallery, Covington, KY.
Camera Obscura at Melville Garden at Downer Landing. This was a resort in Boston harbor in the 1880s.
Camera set-up in the background. Child in carriage is holding a doll and what looks like a black owl toy.
E.B. Nock, Photographer, Advertising boat. From the great-granddaughter of E.B. Nock: “The boat was in the pond at Public Square [Cleveland] from about 1875-1900. He had been a cook on a river boat when he was young and entertained passengers in the evening by playing his guitar. A photographer offered to teach him photography if E. B. would show him how to play the guitar. I believe this is why he used the boat for advertising. The man who raised the flag on Public Square would wind the boat mechanism as well so the figures could move around the decks.” Note that there is a figure of a photographer with camera on the top level at the back of the boat.
398. Camp Life, Upper Ausable Pond, Sept. 8, 1876. Seneca Ray Stoddard self portrait sitting at the table facing camera. The string to pull the shutter is visible.
Self-portrait of Colonel Speck with huge camera from the studio of McFarlin & Speck’s Studio, Elmira, NY.
Written on verso “Graham, Nashua View, N.H.” Photo studio with displays & skylight. Morrill & Co. Express store and wagon. Cigar store Indian at left.
Rock City, (near Olean). There is a photographer working under the dark tent at right, his hat lays on the ground.
Floating Bridge. View of Proctor’s Photographic Van on bridge. Proctor was awarded Patent Number 83,545 in 1868 for a photographic room. The room was designed in the shape of an elongated oval, which reflected light toward the center of the room. The room was lighted artificially through a magnesium flame. Photographs could be taken with a 15 second exposure, day or night. Proctor was murdered by his wife: Salem, Mass., Feb 2. — The police this afternoon arrested Mrs. Proctor for the murder of her husband, George K. Proctor, on July 27, 1882, on a capias, the Grand Jury having found an indictment. Mr. Proctor was found unconscious in his cellar, and it was at first thought to be paralysis, but an autopsy showed that he had a bullet in his brain. Detectives have worked on the case since, resulting in this arrest.
14036. Japanese Belles gazing at our Celebrated Views through the No. 81 patented “Saturn,” Tokio, Japan.
49. A dangerous position-H.C. White Co. Photographer working on column of new building, 250 feet above ground, New York.
5034. On the way to school. Children outside the Kilburn factory. Factory staff in background.
Main Street, Littleton, NH, 1894. The Kilburn 1867 factory is the 2nd building from left. See “When I Wanted the Sun to Shine”-Kilburn and Other Littleton, New Hampshire Stereographers, by Linda McShane.
Main Street, Littleton, NH in 1894. Kilburn’s 1867 factory is the 2nd building from the left. See “When I Wanted the Sun to Shine”-Kilburn and Other Littleton, New Hampshire Stereographers, by Linda McShane.
8288. Looking N. up Fifth Ave. past Flatiron Bldg. and Madison Sq., New York. The man on the girder is identified as Horace Dade Ashton. In The Spirit of Villarosa: A Father’s Extraordinary Adventures; A Son’s Challenge by Horace Ashton and Marc Ashton, a biography of Horace Dade Ashton by his sons, it is stated that “My favorite Horace Ashton photograph hangs on the wall in my home. It is the famous black-and-white self-portrait he took from the top of the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. In the picture I have, he is sitting on the girder high above the city. The photograph is my favorite for a number of reasons, certainly because it is a wonderful example of classic American art of the twentieth century, but mostly because it is so typical of Dad. I’m sure he enjoyed the thrill of it all that day.” In this quote the image is referred to as a “self-portrait” which would mean Horace Dade Ashton is both the subject and the photographer.
8300. The Start–Automobile Trip–H.C. White Co. Field Managers’ Convention, Home Office, 1906.
8295. Banquet given by H.C. White Co., to salesmen from Colgate University, May 23, 1904, at Windsor Hotel, Hamilton, NY.
8283. The Home of Perfecscopes and Perfec-Stereographs. Patented Automatic Washers, Stereograph Department.
8281. The Home of Perfecscopes and Perfec-Stereographs. A Section of the Assembling Room, Stereoscope Department.
