George N. Moore
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George N. Moore (born ca. 1844) was an early photographer in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The University of Washington libraries have 35 of his prints in their collection.[1]
Moore was born in Massachusetts ca. 1844.[1]
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Moore opened a studio in Seattle in 1870[1] specializing in portraits and offered colored tinting with crayons and water colors. He produced carte de visite and cabinet photographs.[1] Thomas Prosch collected photos by Moore and other local photographers.
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He photographed several community leaders from the "pioneer days" of Seattle including Seattle Post-Intelligencer publisher Charles Prosch, Judge Thomas Burke, and Father Prefontaine.[1] He also photographed Pat Kanim (a "Puget Sound Indian" who was Snoqualmie chief)[2] and Erasmus M. Smithers.[3] He also photographed Roger Sherman Greene.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Archives West: George N. Moore photographs, circa 1870-1894". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
- ^ "Pat Kanim, Snoqualmie chief, ca. 1855 :: Museum of History and Industry". digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu.
- ^ Moore, George N (12 October 2018). Erasmus M. Smithers: Renton settler. OCLC 40606482 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ VanBurkleo, Sandra F. (18 December 2015). Gender Remade: Citizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 1879–1912. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107098022 – via Google Books.
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