CIRCA 1890 Booklet HINTS TO STRANGERS [I. W.] Tabor SAN FRANCISCO Photography

Description: CIRCA 1890 Booklet HINTS TO STRANGERS [I. W.] Tabor SAN FRANCISCO Photography DESCRIPTION: [ND] circa 1890, Original booklet [pamphlet, brochure]; Cover title: HINTS TO STRANGERS with compliments of TABOR, S. F. [San Francisco]; Title page title, HINTS TO STRANGERS Where To Go While In California [cities and places]; 8 Montgomery Street, TABOR, San Francisco, Cal.; stapled with 16 numbered pages; size is 4-7/8 by 4 inches: “Portrait and view photographer: Headquarters For The Best And Latest Views Of Yosemite , City And Bay Of San Francisco, Monterey, Geysers, Railroads, ,Southern California, Old and New Mexico, Colorado, Yellowstone Park, Oregon Arizona, Alaska, Etc.” DATE: [No date] but it has a reference to winning the Gold Medal at the World’s Fair, New Orleans, in 1885. CONDITION: In NEAR FINE [if not fine] COLLECTABLE CONDITION, with no mentionable defects [Please see scans] SECURITY: ARGUS BOOKS [or other wording] may have been super-imposed over the images for security or informational reasons and are not on the actual item. HISTORY: Isaiah West Taber (August 17, 1830 – February 22, 1912, was an American daguerreotypist, ambrotypist, and photographer who took many pictures of noted Californians, which he donated to the California State Library "that the state may preserve the names and faces and keep alive the memory of those who made it what it is. He was also a sketch artist and dentist. His studio also produced a series of stereoscopic views of west coast scenery. Taber was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and between 1845 and 1849 he worked at sea on a whaler.[6] He first moved to California in 1850. He returned East in 1854 and opened his first photography studio in Syracuse, New York. In 1864, he returned to California, where he worked in the studio of Bradley and Rulofson until 1873. In 1871, Taber opened his own studio, where he gained fame for reproducing the photos of Carleton Watkins after Watkins went bankrupt, although the reproductions were published without credit to Watkins. In 1880, Taber made a six-week photographic trip to the Hawaiian Islands where, among other subjects, he photographed the Hawaiian King Kalākaua, completing a commission for three full-length portraits. The following year Kalākaua visited Taber's studio in San Francisco. At this time the Japanese photographer Suzuki Shin'ichi (1855–1912) was studying photographic techniques with Taber; Suzuki also photographed King Kalākaua (in 1881) and may have been the source of some views of Japan included in Taber's stock. By the 1890s, Taber had expanded his operations to include studios in London, England and in elsewhere Europe. However, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed his San Francisco studio, gallery, and negative collection, ending his photographic career. [Please email with any questions] SHIPPING: All paper items [broadsides, labels, pamphlets, brochures, photos, etc.] and small thin objects that are 1/4 of an inch thick or less are shipped inside an eBay stiff hardboard sleeve with 2 additional stiff hardboard cards inside by USPS Media Mail [unless other arrangements have been made with seller]. [SL – B2 – S4 (code to locate the item)]

Price: 125 USD

Location: Auburn, California

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