Boston Almanac & Business Directory, v56, 1891, 426, HT, lists 3 photographers including Currier, and 6 photo suppliers & services including Thurston, on Bromfield St. The area remained Boston's main camera retail district until the early 21st century. See also King's How to See Boston, 1895, 92; and Thurston's business listings in Polito & Steele, 171.
Whether Rowell is BCC's first honorary member begs research. Boston Club Book for 1889, 46. Rowell is listed in business in Boston from 1859; later as Allen & Rowell. Polito & Steele, 23-24, 115.
"Holtzer-Cabot Electric Co.," A History of Brookline, Massachusetts ..., Brookline, 1906, 245-246, IA.
Francis Blake Jr., "Photographic Shutters," read at the club Apr. 14, 1890. American Amateur Photographer, Feb. 1891, 67-73, HT; Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, Mar. 5, 1891, 144-146; Mar. 28, 1891, 174-177; Apr. 25, 1891, 234-236. Hall, 155-156. For a portrait of, and photograph by, Blake see Polito & Steele, facing 497.
Photos by Latimer: Camera Notes (Stieglitz, ed.), Oct. 1901, 140; Oct. 1902 (Juan C. Abel, ed.), frontispiece, HT. Brief technical item, title notwithstanding: "Mr. Latimer Expresses His Views Somewhat at Length,"Pictorial Photography in America, 1921, 12-13.
The oldest continuously active camera club in the U.S. is the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, founded in 1862 and 19 years older than BCC. Founded mostly by professionals, it became amateur later. The third-oldest is the Baltimore Camera Club. The first amateur photographic organization in the U.S. was the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club, NYC, active 1861-1863. "In 1880 there were fewer than 10 camera clubs or societies in the U.S., all of them composed mainly...of commercial photographers." Greenough, 268.
Stieglitz, "The Joint Exhibition at Philadelphia," American Amateur Photographer, v5, 1893, 201, GB.
Frederick Haven Pratt, of Worcester, Massachusetts, is not to be confused with the club's Frederick Alcott Pratt. See "Pratt, Frederick Haven," encyclopedia.com; Fanning, 150. Club activities, 1907: American Amateur Photographer & Camera & Darkroom, Feb. 1907, 142, GB.
Frederick Haven Pratt, of Worcester, Massachusetts, is not to be confused with the club's Frederick Alcott Pratt. See "Pratt, Frederick Haven," encyclopedia.com; Fanning, 150. Club activities, 1907: American Amateur Photographer & Camera & Darkroom, Feb. 1907, 142, GB.
Photos, Old Boston project; Marsha Peters, Bernard Mergen, "Doing the Rest: The Uses of Photographs in American Studies," American Quarterly, 1977, 281.
Eddy: American Amateur Photographer, Mar. 1899, 121-122.
Fitz: ibid, 122-123. HT. Eddy, a friend of Susan B. Anthony, painted portraits of her and Frederick Douglass.
Francis Blake Jr., "Photographic Shutters," read at the club Apr. 14, 1890. American Amateur Photographer, Feb. 1891, 67-73, HT; Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, Mar. 5, 1891, 144-146; Mar. 28, 1891, 174-177; Apr. 25, 1891, 234-236. Hall, 155-156. For a portrait of, and photograph by, Blake see Polito & Steele, facing 497.
Greenough, 273; Robinson, 143; Mass. Charitable Mechanic Assn., Report of the 18th Triennial Exhibition, Boston, 1893, 175-181; Kimball, 192; "Boston Camera Club," New York Times, Apr. 14, 1895, 13; Photo-Era, May, 1898, HT.
Photo-Era, July 1910, 48-49, HT. For a photo by Corthell and mention by noted critic Sadakichi Hartmann, see American Amateur Photographer, July 1904, 296, 302, 303; photo, 299, HT.
Hall, 161. Among the better-known exhibitors were other BCC members Walter G. Chase, Charles H. Currier, Owen A. Eames, Wilfred A. French, Benjamin Kimball, Horace A. Latimer, and Joseph P. Loud; and from Philadelphia the noted William Herman Rau. Catherine Weed Barnes, "Boston Fifth Annual Joint Exhibition," American Amateur Photographer, June 1892, 259-264, HT.
Evening Transcript (Boston), Nov. 9, 1881; Kimball, 205. The earliest known mention of the post-November club is an announcement by secretary Thurston of formation of the Boston Society of Amateur Photographers in Photographic Times & American Photographer, Dec. 1881, 457-458, HT. At the time MIT, today located across the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass., was called simply the Institute of Technology.
Boston Almanac & Business Directory, v56, 1891, 426, HT, lists 3 photographers including Currier, and 6 photo suppliers & services including Thurston, on Bromfield St. The area remained Boston's main camera retail district until the early 21st century. See also King's How to See Boston, 1895, 92; and Thurston's business listings in Polito & Steele, 171.
Photo-Era, Apr. 1912, 184; American Photography, Dec. 1914, 742. HT.
Photo-Era, Mar. 1899, 260-261, HT.Member was the 3rd rank in the Photo-Secession, beneath Fellow and Associate.
Photos by Latimer: Camera Notes (Stieglitz, ed.), Oct. 1901, 140; Oct. 1902 (Juan C. Abel, ed.), frontispiece, HT. Brief technical item, title notwithstanding: "Mr. Latimer Expresses His Views Somewhat at Length,"Pictorial Photography in America, 1921, 12-13.
The oldest continuously active camera club in the U.S. is the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, founded in 1862 and 19 years older than BCC. Founded mostly by professionals, it became amateur later. The third-oldest is the Baltimore Camera Club. The first amateur photographic organization in the U.S. was the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club, NYC, active 1861-1863. "In 1880 there were fewer than 10 camera clubs or societies in the U.S., all of them composed mainly...of commercial photographers." Greenough, 268.
State of Maine, Last Will and Testament of Horace A. Latimer, Oct. 19, 1931. Latimer also bequeathed money to the Portland (Maine) Camera Club, founded in 1899, thanks to which it too prospered and is still active.
