A Directory of Massachusetts Photographers, 1839-1900

662 Pages·1993·51.9 MB·English

by  Steele, Chris and Ronald Polito

A Directory of
Massachusetts Photographers:
1839-1900
(The Online Edition)
Edited by Ron Polito
from Research by Chris Steele & Ron Polito
Version 1.0 ©2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction . v
Acknowledgements . vii
Conventions & Caveats . ix
Photographers and Other Photographic Workers, by Town . 1
Appendix A - Numerical Codes for Works Cited . 521
Appendix B - Changes in Town Boundaries . 530
Appendix C - Photographic Patents Issued in Massachusetts . 537
Appendix D - Renumbering of Washington Street . 539
Appendix E - Massachusetts Photographers in the Military during the Civil War . 540
Appendix F - Women Photographers & Photographic Workers . 556
Appendix G - Massachusetts Photographers Cited in Reference 534, Nineteenth-Century
Photography: An Annotated Bibliography, 1839-1879, by William Johnson . 559
Appendix H - Photographers Relocating Outside of Massachusetts . 561
Selected Bibliography (A list of resources for nineteenth-century Massachusetts photography
is also available, see the Introduction). 564
Every Name Index . 567
Errata & Additions (Online updates are available, see the Introduction) ...following 605
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INTRODUCTION TO THE ONLINE EDITION
This is a modified version of A Directory of Massachusetts Photographers: 1839 - 1900, co-authored by Chris Steele and
myself, and published by Picton Press in 1993. Some of the original introductory material has been removed and, to comply
with copyright restrictions, all 100 illustrations of nineteenth-century photographs, cameras, and photographic studios.
Retained is a guide to the original directory’s conventions and its listing of 6800 nineteenth-century photographers and allied
professionals, arranged under 293 Massachusetts cities, towns, and villages. Also retained are eight appendices covering
topics such as women photographers, photographers’ Civil War military service, photographic patent holders, and changes
in nineteenth-century Massachusetts town boundaries, as well as a bibliography and an every name index.
This online edition is digitally searchable and I hope the listing of photographers and photographic workers is reasonably
clear, but a quick glance at the Conventions & Caveats section might be helpful. The Every Name Index is a useful back-up
for anything missed by electronic search tools.
Since the Directory was first published errors have been identified and new information discovered. These are detailed on
the Errata & Additions pages following the Every Name Index. The web links cited there are not “hot,” but there is an
Online Errata & Additions where the links are active. These online pages will be updated as necessary. To view these, go
to http://openarchives.umb.edu and search for A Directory of Massachusetts Photographers: 1839-1900. The Errata &
Additions are a sidebar to the main directory. Anyone with additional corrections or new information is urged to send them
to me, using the e-mail address below; all contributors will be acknowledged, with their permission.
Finally, a List of Resources regarding nineteenth-century Massachusetts photography will be found on a second sidebar to
the Massachusetts Directory. To view this, follow the instructions above. The resource list is not definitive and additions
are invited.
Ron Polito ([email protected])
Boston, 2018
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