A23.
La Photographie de Satan.
Blanch Starr and Highland Park, 1896. Blanch was the daughter of the photographer A.M. Starr of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Umbrella Rock on Point. Royan M. Linn at right; photo shack at left; shadow of photographer in foreground.
Photographer with camera, stereo camera, bottle with funnel, and photographs in studio. Image is pseudoscopic.
Photographer with camera, stereo camera, bottle with funnel, and photographs in studio. Image is pseudoscopic.
Mammoth Cave Views. No. 4. Out for the Last Time. This is a picture of the gentlemen who conceived and executed the project of Photographing the cave, with the reflectors &c, used.
The Man sitting is Wm. “Bill” Faster. Do no know the other man. Photographer taking a portrait.
183. J.G. Vail’s Photograph Gallery, Skylight Room. Written on back is “Ja’s & Nettie Vail.” This is the photographer and his wife.
Self-portrait of Colonel Speck with huge camera from the studio of McFarlin & Speck’s Studio, Elmira, NY.
49. A dangerous position-H.C. White Co. Photographer working on column of new building, 250 feet above ground, New York.
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.
Mr. H.C. White taking Pictures, Winston Salem N. Carolina. Anna Lavins, Myrtle Mattison Warner, Lizzie Shehan, Nellie Mattison, Billy Tompkins, Murphy Road. H.C. White Co.
103. Doremus’ fleet at Wabasha, Minn. The largest boat is Doremus’ Photographic Gallery with a huge camera model on top at the front. The next main boat is the Photographic Printing Gallery with sun printing going on with workers behind the counter. There is a small rowboat named “Lady Annie.” A camera on tripod stands in the foreground.