Bd Company Photo Angel Beatriche 18 16
Nahuel Anschutz
The photographers in this collection operated in Washington State, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska, with a few from other areas outside the Pacific Northwest. The majority of the collection contains material from photographers active in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia. Most of the photograph mounts bear photographers' imprints which often indicate street address in addition to city. For Washington State photographers if the photographer's location is given as in "Washington Territory" this would place their dates before 1889. Some materials are photographic postcards that bear postage, postmarks, and correspondences.
Bd Company Photo Angel Beatriche 18 16
Photographs are grouped in folders according to the photographers last name or the photographic studio. Where two or more photographers share a last name, first and middle initials have been added to the folder name. Individual photographs are then numbered according to this folder-naming nomenclature and followed by sequential Arabic numerals.
Frank G. Abell (1844-1910) was born in Illinois and moved with hisparents to California in 1857. In 1862, at the age of 18, he joined the firm ofWilliam Shew in San Francisco, where he spend 4 years learning the art andbusiness of photography. On his own, Abell opened his first gallery, the AbellsStar Gallery, in Stockton in 1866. Moving back to San Francisco the followingyear, he then worked his way north, through Grass Valley, Red Bluff, and Yreka,arriving in Roseburg, Oregon in 1877.
Known primarily for his studio portraits, his gallery in Portlandwas both spacious and well furnished, including an "elegant piano for the freeuse of patrons". Abell also produced "Cards, Cabinets, Panels, Boudoirs,Stereoscopic and Out Door Views, and Living Statues", the latter being photosof living subjects arranged to present the appearance of a marble bust on apedestal. He moved to Tacoma in 1908 in failing health, and died in 1910.
William George Alexander (1880-1960) was born in Kansas. Heoperated a photography studio in Rainier, Oregon in 1910, and moved his studioto Douglas, Washington by 1915. He was active in Amira and Creston, Washingtoncirca 1913-1916. After World War I, Alexander became a wheat farmer in EasternWashington until his death.
Frank Perkins and Walter Allen operated the Georgetown PhotographStudio active at 6105 13th Ave South, Georgetown Station, Seattle, Washingtonfrom 1911-1915. In 1916 the studio was moved to 717 3rd Avenue. From1917-1920 only Frank Perkins is listed as a photographer at the 3rd Avenuelocation.
James Masatoku Amano was born in Choshi, Japan on May 9th, 1887.He came to Seattle, Washington aboard the SS AkiMaru on April 23, 1915. He was a photographer at the Jackson PhotoStudio, 624 Jackson, Seattle, Washington, circa 1919-1925. He had two childrenwith his wife, Zen. All were interned at Camp Minidoka during WWII - Amano viathe Department of Justice Internment and Detention in Santa Fe on July 9, 1943;and his wife, son and daughter via the Puyallup Assembly Center on August 10,1943.
The American View Co. stamp on the verso reads: Flashlights andinteriors a specialty. Prop's [ill.] Park. Other photographers using the nameAmerican View Co. are known to have operated in Wisconsin, Oregon, Californiaand Dakota. The relationships, if any, are not known.
William O. Amsden was part of the Seattle Photo Co. in 1890 alongwith Chester B. Walsworth. The office was located at 15 Shorey Blk. Amsden wasalso part of the Mountaineers and in 1890 was part of the Mount Rainierclimbing party that included Fay Fuller, who upon the completion of this ascentwas the first woman to stand on the summit.
Anderson's studio, Anderson Photo Art and Commercial Photographywas active at 110 E. Heron St. Aberdeen, Washington, circa 1925-29, 212 WestHeron Street, Aberdeen, Washington and Tacoma, circa 1919. He was known for hisshort films of everyday occurrences in Grays Harbor, Washington that may havebeen used to supplement national films that were shown locally in town.
Ed Andrews (1872-1937) was born in Norway. According to a notefrom donor Carolyn Brown, he changed his name from Edvard Engrebretsen to EdAndrews when he immigrated. Later he moved to South Dakota where he lived onthe family farm. In 1897, he came to Douglas and worked as a clerk in theTreadwell Store. After owning and operating a restaurant he opened the EdAndrews photography studio.
Ray Atkeson was born February 13, 1907. He was a commercialphotographer from 1929-1946 in Portland, Oregon. His studio was located at 215Swetland Building, Portland, Oregon. His commercial studio was known asPhoto-Art. In 1946 he switched to more free-lance work, photographinglandscapes and skiing in Washington and Oregon. He was awarded an HonoraryDoctorate of Fine Arts from Linfield College as well as the Oregon Governor'sArt Award among others. He died May 25, 1990.
Frank Fuller (also known as F.F.) Avery (1862-1872) was born inIndiana. He began working for the Indian School Service on September 22, 1890.Before moving to Washington State he and his wife, Anna Avery, whom he marriedin 1892, were employed by the Indian Service in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and CrowCreek, North Dakota. He became associated with the Colville Indian Agency andfrom 1898-1916 Avery worked in a number of capacities, first as superintendentof the Indian Boarding School at Fort Spokane, and then as inspector ofColville Indian Agency Day Schools. Photos from the Colville Indian Agency,were taken between 1901-1916 when Avery was assigned to the Colville IndianAgency. The images record agency headquarters and personnel, along withnumerous photographs of Colville Indian farmers and school children.
Balls work was featured in exhibitions of photography atexpositions held in 1852, 1854, 1855, and 1857 at the Ohio Mechanics Institute.At the 1857 exposition, Ball and another photographer won a bronze medal forphotography. Ball experienced financial difficulties between 1865 and 1871. Helost a substantial amount of money as a result of "unfortunate speculations"and his assets were liquidated at a Constables sale in 1868, though hecontinued with limited funds under the supervision of the Bankruptcy Court.Ball gave his son an interest in the business in 1869 and the firms name waschanged to Ball & Sons at 106 Columbia St. Bet. First & Second Aves,Seattle, Washington. In about 1887, he went to Montana with son James Presley,Jr. and now well into his sixties, he opened another busy daguerreotypingstudio in Helena.
In the second half of 1900, Ball followed his son J.P. Ball, Jr.,to Seattle in the Western Territory of Washington. Ball Jr., opened the GlobeStudio in 1892 and Ball & Sons studio in 1897 while he was developing apractice as a lawyer. Ball Sr. remained active in civic affairs and founded andorganized Shriners' lodges in Seattle and Portland. He left Seattle forHonolulu, presumably for the change in climate to help relieve his cripplingrheumatism. He opened a studio in his home in Honolulu, which was probably runby his daughter, Estella. Ball Sr. died on May 4, 1904, in Honolulu.
Barkalow Bros. was a news company that operated newsstands thatsold tobacco products, candy and candles. Barkalow Bros. was located at 407 S15th Street and the Union Pacific Headquarters Building in Omaha, Nebraska.
Deputy Auditor Frank M. Evans was born in Minnesota in 1864. Hestudied art and photography in Kansas City and opened a gallery there with Mr.(Lafayette W.) Barnes. In 1888 they arrived in Washington and decided to locateand set up a studio in Snohomish.
Eduardo Clifford Spencer was an American born photographer whomoved to Chile circa 1870 to Valparaso. He began working with Carlos Bischoffat this time. In 1879 the War of the Pacific was declared and the team, withthe authorization of the Chilean army, was sent to Bolivia and Peru to documentthe soldiers.
Blome (possible name variant, J.W. Blome) (1853-1902) worked inCalifornia, 1888-1892, before coming to Washington. After his time inWashington, Blome again ventured northward working in several locations inBritish Columbia. He was a photographer in Ashcroft, 1895-1896, and appeared inKamloops, November 1898. He also worked in Clinton and traveled throughout theOkanagan and Nicola valleys. Blomes obituary called him "an artist of more thanaverage ability".
Marvin D. Boland moved to Tacoma in 1915 and photographed a widerange of subjects including landscapes and celebrities. He was known for hispanoramas that he took with a circuit camera. He operated photography studiosin Tacoma from 1915-1949. Boland died 1950 in Bremerton, Washington whilephotographing Navy ships.
Booen was born in 1864 in Shellrock Township, Minnesota. In 1888he was working for Judkins Photograph Studio and married Cina Nevin. He endedup in La Conner, Washington around 1889 working for LaRoche and Boyd. Later in1889 he bought the photography studio in La Conner to open his own business. In1895 he and his family moved to Chilliwack. He died in 1934.
William Hanson Boorne and his cousin Ernest Gundry May opened aphotography business in Calgary in 1886. Boorne was the main photographer whileMay developed the photographs. They photographed mountain views, railroadconstruction and small cities and towns.
Orville Borgersen was a skier and ski photographer. He exploredvarious ski routes and possible ski routes on Mount Rainier and was a part ofthe Washington Ski Club. He often photographed while on ski trips and sharedhis photographs with the ski club. He won the SeattleTimes Amateur snap shot competition in 1935 and would continue on andstart filming ski outings. He had three brothers who were all skiers as well,Melvin, Le Roy and Stanley. Orville's father was a furrier and Orville grew upin the business, graduating from the Mitchell Designing School in New York andcontinuing his studies at fashion centers in Europe. In 1955 he was elected theChairman of the Seattle Retail Trade Bureau and to the board of the MasterFurrier's Guild of America Inc. He retired from the fur business in 1977.
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