Peter Palmquist collection of Humboldt County, California, male photographers [circa 1850]-2003 1973-2003

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Peter Palmquist collection of Humboldt County, California, male photographers [circa 1850]-2003 1973-2003

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The collection includes information about and examples of the work of male amateur and commercial photographers, studio assistants, photographic processors, colorists, photojournalists, film makers, and film theaters collected by Peter Palmquist from 1971 until his death in 2003. The collection documents the practice and occupation of photography in Humboldt County, California, from around the incorporation of the county in 1853. This collection consists of biographical files collected by Palmquist for over nine hundred men and businesses involved in photography and photographic materials that represent the work of nearly three hundred individuals and firms. Individual photographers with significant quantities of material in the collection include Ray Jerome Baker, Augustus William Ericson, Amasa Plummer Flaglor, Alexius Alexander Holmes, N. B. Strong, and Joshua P. Vansant. Firms with substantial groups of material in the collection include the Arcata Union newspaper, Art-Ray Company, Freeman Art Co., and Seely Studio.

53.12 linear feet (160 boxes) + 3 broadside folders.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349599

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Flaglor, Amasa Plummer, 1848-1918

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Vansant, Joshua P., 1861-1950

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Freeman Art Co.

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Palmquist, Peter E.

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Peter Eric Palmquist (1931-2003) of Arcata, California, was a historian of photography who collected historical and contemporary photographs and research materials about photographers. Women in Photography International is an educational nonprofit group founded in 1981 that serves women photographers, photographic educators, photography students, and gallery owners around the world. It promotes women photographers and their work through programs, exhibitions, juried comp...

Art-Ray Company.

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Strong, N. B.

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Ericson, A. W. (Augustus William), 1848-1927

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Not all the photographs are identified as being by Ericson. The print of Stephen H. Meek is by Louis Heller; some others are unidentified. From the description of Indians of Humboldt and Siskiyou Counties : photographs, ca. 1880-1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79095252 Biography Augustus William Ericson (1848-1927) was born in Orebro, Sweden. At age eleven he started a printing apprenticeship, the same business his f...

Seely Studio.

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Baker, Ray Jerome, 1880-1972

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Biography Ray Jerome Baker (1880 - 1972) worked as a self-employed photographer in Humboldt County from 1904 until sometime in 1910. In that year Baker and his family, wife, Edith Frost Baker, and son, Earl Frost Baker, made Hawaii their permanent home. Baker continued as a professional photographer and became renowned for his documentary and promotional images of Hawaii. He retired from active photography and public speaking in 1959. His lif...

Holmes, Alexius Alexander, 1865-1922

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