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Abraham Bogardus

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118:: "Wishing to retire from the photographic business, I now offer my well-known establishment for sale, after thirty-eight years' continuous existence in this city. The reputation of the gallery is too well known to require one word of comment. The stock of registered negatives is very valuable, containing a large line of regular customers, and also very many of our prominent men, Presidents, Senators, etc., and for which orders are constantly received. They include Blaine and Logan. Entire apparatus first-class; Dallmeyer lens, etc. For further information, address Abraham Bogardus & Co., 872 Broadway cor. 18th St., New York." 49: 61: 20: 72:
From 1847 to 1852, he was listed as a daguerreotypist at 217 Greenwich Street. His residence was in Newark, New Jersey, from 1849 to 1851, returning to Grove Street, New York City, between 1851 and 1852. His success enabled a branch gallery at 126 Washington Street, Newark, in 1849, which moved to 8
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Clinton Street, Newark, in 1850. His New York City gallery was moved to 229 Greenwich Street in 1851 and the old Root Gallery at 363 Broadway refitted in 1862. He opened a new studio at 1153 Broadway in 1869, maintaining the 363 Broadway address.
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of which he was president for five years. He worked as a clerk in a dry goods store in the late 1830s, and exhibited a painting at the American Institute in 1845.
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He was trained in the daguerreotype process by New Yorker George W. Prosch, who in 1839 had made a camera for
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He died in his home at 246 Madison Street in Brooklyn, NY surrounded by friends in 1908.
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and photographer who made around 200,000 daguerreotypes during his career.
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That same year he became an important witness at the trial of
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Leaves From the Diary of a Photographer - Abraham Bogardus
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Wanting to retire in 1884, Bogardus advertised in the
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The Lost Art of the Daguerreotype - Abraham Bogardus
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daguerreotypist
Samuel F.B. Morse
National Photographic Association

Chester A. Arthur

Asher Brown Durand
William H. Mumler
spirit photographer
fraud
P. T. Barnum
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel and David Bendann
Baltimore
"Death Notices"
Luminous Lint
Daguerreotype.com
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Abraham Bogardus, 1st photographer of NYC, dies in Brooklyn 1908"
"Obituary for Abraham Bogardus"
The Daguerreotype - Abraham Bogardus
The Lost Art of the Daguerreotype - Abraham Bogardus
Leaves From the Diary of a Photographer - Abraham Bogardus
Categories
American portrait photographers
1822 births
1908 deaths
19th-century American photographers

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