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George G. Rockwood

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Rockwood married Araminta Bouton in 1853. They had several children, one of whom, George H. Rockwood, was also a photographer and associated with his father in business. Rockwood's reputation brought him a large business, but near the time of his brother Elihu's death in 1908 he filed for bankruptcy,
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Rockwood moved to New York City in 1857 and went into partnership with his brother, Colonel Elihu R. Rockwood. The studio in which Rockwood and his brother came to be best known was in the Roosevelt Building at
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was the first woman of whom he made a vignette carte de visite. He was an inventor as well as a photographer and made many improvements in the tools of his trade.
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Elihu Rockwood's army friends were frequent visitors at the Rockwood studio, and George Rockwood got to know them well. He was fond of relating his talks with
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in the hotel at that time. Morse took a liking to the young Rockwood and took time to explain the workings of his invention. As a young adult, he worked in a
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where Greeley posed, axe in hand. For a short period of time in 1865 Rockwood's studio employed photographer
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late in life for his contributions to the arts. Rockwood died at his country home in
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with assets consisting of a note for $ 66, two patents and 514 shares "of no value".
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well and made several photographs of him, both in the studio and in the woods near
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was exhibiting his instruments at the United States Hotel in
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Troy, New York
Lakeville, Connecticut
Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York)
Troy, New York
Samuel Morse
telegraph
Saratoga
hallboy
printing office
restauranting
St. Louis
carte de visite
Baron Rothschild
August Belmont
Broadway
13 Street
Civil War
war photographer
colonel
10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Major Anderson
General Dix
Horace Greeley
Chappaqua
William Kurtz
halftone
tenor
Henry Ward Beecher
Plymouth Church

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