Photograph Taken Of Edwin Parks By B. F. Hale, Photographer, Rochester, New York. Parks Lived Near By In Victor, Ontario County, New York

B. F. HALE [PHOTOGRAPHER]

Publication: Photographed by B F Hale, n d (ca 1859), Rochester, New York

Photograph 10.1 x 6.1 cm [4" x 2 1/4"] taken by B. F. Hale of Rochester, New York, of Edwin Parks, who lived in nearby Victor, Ontario County, New York. The inked manuscript note on the verso reads: "Edwin Parks died on the road to California was killed by Indians on the 14th July." The 1860 U. S. Census reveals that his father, Edwin Parks, owned $20,000 in real estate making him a very wealthy farmer. Online sources state that Parks married Apama Dickenson of Connecticut in November 1833, and Edwin was the second child and first-born son of a family with six girls and two boys. While California papers reported several deaths from Indian attacks in the summer of 1859, the passing of Parks was not mentioned. According to Robert Penn Fordyce's Stereo Photography in Rochester, New York Up to 1900, "HALE, BENJAMIN F. (1 831 - 1900) a machinist in 1857, opened a picture gallery at 8 Baker's Block in 1858 or early 1859. Here he remained until 1862 or early 1863 when he became a photographer at 75 Main Street. During the 1870's he was joined by photographer Walter E. Curtiss in '73 and Samuel H. Carnall (for one year) in 1874. The Hale studio moved to 151 East Main Street in 1883 and to 150 State Street in 1885. From 1897 to his death in 1900 no business address was recorded, though he was professionally listed as a photographer. Few stereographs with his personal imprint are extant, though he did produce some in the 1870's." Some light foxing else a very good image.

Inventory Number: 50545