![]() ![]() Re Taylor’s studio in Yosemite: “In the winter of 1902, Harold A. A very enterprising man, he sent his agents all over to sell his photos. Principally a landscape photographer, Taylor had a studio in Yosemite Valley. He lived in the San Diego area from 1901. He left England in 1896 and settled in Bakersfield. Taylor was a native of England, born in Croyden on July 24, 1878. The Illustrated History of Southern California published in 1890, pages 374-375, also characterizes him.ī. See the San Diego Union of for a biographical sketch and the Golden Era of December 1889, pages 616-6217 for another, with a pen and ink sketch of him. Here was a flight of stairs leading into an artist room furnished in the latest design with every facility for producing the finest photographs. The front room was finished in terra cotta, with pale blue on the ceiling, and a handsome portier at the rear of the room divided the art room from the musical department. He opened his fine music and art room on 5th street, between “C” and “D” on May 5, 1890. He began as an artist in 1872 in Springfield, Illinois 22 years in the photographic profession advertisement appeared in the same newspaper 19 and 26 of May 1894. The 1888-1892 Great Register shows him as 36 years old and from Germany portrait appeared in the Seaport News of 28 April 1894. The place had a superior sky-light and Sherriff, having been in business in San Francisco for 10 years, took over.ī. While he had first been at 6th Avenue and K, in May 1875 he moved to the corner of 5th and “E” in April 1876, he did lease the studio to Sherriff. Vale of San Bernardino in taking views of the city to be formed together to make photos 42″ in length. In February 1872, Fessenden was assisted by Mr. Charles left his estate to his brother Ferdinand Stone Fessenden. Sherriff bought Fessenden’s art gallery and operated the place after 1876. The 1874 San Diego City Directory, Illustrated contained many of his photographs. While in San Diego, Charles took pictures of many prominent San Diegans, his specialty being the small “carte de viste” the personalized calling card fo the day. In 1872, his brother joined him in San Diego where Charles had opened an art gallery in 1869, located at 6th and “K” Street. Worked in his father’s foundry at an early age. “Mexico at High-Tide.” In The World’s Work …: A History of Our Time. Arcadia Publishing, 2008 Lyle, Jr., Eugene P. Arcadia Publishing, 2010 Covey, Stephen A. Cox married in 1903 he died in Los Angeles in 1911.Ĭox’s photos of Escondido and Mexico City have been published. Carmichael in 1902 and returned to the United States. Cox sold his interest in the Mexico City studio to fellow Escondido native Ralph J. Newspaper mentions him as an Escondido photographer from 1893 attended Claremont College at Pomona from 1896-1898 set up photography studio in Mexico City by 1899 (Cox & Carmichael). Percy Smith Cox, son of John William and Mary F. 1894-1895 Great Register notes his age as 22, his native place as Pennsylvania, and a photographer. ![]()
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