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Fredericks 770 Broadway, N.Y.
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Knickerbocker Family Portrait Gallery, 770 Broadway Cor. 9th St. NY
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Charles D. Fredricks.(1823-1894) In
1843 Fredricks was a clerk in a bank, when he began to take lessons from
Jeremiah Gurney. Late in the summer he traveled to Venezuela to the district of
Augostura on the Orinoco river on a business speculation to take views of the
city and visit his brother . He returned with the daguerreotype images and fully
embarked on his photography career. He continued to travel to South America,
visiting Pernambuco, Rio Janeiro, Rio Grande, and others. He took pictures and
soon began selling them with noted success, sometimes being paid in horses by
the poorer class, of which he soon became proprietor of a large drove.
In 1853 he opened a photographic establishment in Paris, and
was the first to make life-size heads, employing artists to finish them in
pastel. While in Paris, Talbot announced his Talbotypes and C.D. Fredericks
brought the discovery back to America. He later became one of the first and
finest photographers using Talbot's modern paper process. His high quality
images he marketed as "Specialite". The first photographs were small in size and
were called cartes de visite.
Upon his return to New York, Fredricks entered into
partnership with Gurney for a short time from 1855-57 and continued to occupy
the gurney gallery at 707 Broadway. The specialty that Mr. Fredricks makes at
present, is the taking of club portraits as shown below, and in this he has
built up a vast business which has no cessation in prosperity. In 1855 he began
to travel and document Havana, Cuba where he opened an office.
D'Aquinos 1289 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Ray D. Chapman 1513 Eighth Ave., Bet. 17th & 18th Streets, New York
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Miss Winnetta Montague
Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco
(1851-1877) Actress Winetta Montague debuted in 1871, then married Walter Montgomery, who
committed suicide a few days later. The young widow returned to the stage at
Brooklyn's Park Theatre in 1872. In 1874 Montague's career took a turn and she
became a variety performer.
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/21764/mcms.html
https://wairarapaarchive1052.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/chasing-winetta/
The Life of David Belasco 1912 reported that she died in New York in
abject poverty in 1877.
Bradley & Rulofson's Celebrity Catalog, San Francisco 187https://archive.org/details/bradleysons1878unse
lists governors of California, mayors of San
Francisco, business and actors "of any note " who have visited California since
1849.
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