Abraham Bogardus

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NameAbraham Bogardus
OrtssitzNew York City
StraßeBroadway 872
Art des UnternehmensFotograf
Quellenangaben[New Yorks great industries (1884) 113]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1846 Gründung




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
Lichtbilder 1884 [New Yorks great ind. (1884)] 1884 [New Yorks great ind. (1884)] Photographer




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ZEIT1884
THEMAFirmendarstellung
TEXTAs a practical photographer Mr. Bogardus has now been established in business since 1846, and during the long intervening period of thirty-eight years has ever maintained the highest standard of excellence, and has built up a business as widely extended as this representative. His gallery and studio are unusually central in location, being situated at No. 872 Broadway, corner of 18th Street, and are elegantly and artistically fitted up and furnished, possessing the finest possible facilities for the practice of his art. Mr. Bogardus has been justly termed the "Old Reliable," being acknowledged to be one of the best photographers in the world, and standing, as he does, at the head of his profession in this city. His gallery has been visited by all the leading statesmen and public men of the day, and is the only one where the photographs of all the celebrities and prominent leaders in financial, ecclesiastical, and national circles have at one time or another been taken. Among others of his sitters may be mentioned the Martyr President, James A. Garfield, Ex-President Grant, Ex-President Hayes, President Arthur, General Hancock, Hon. J. G. Blaine, the Eepublican Presidential nominee, Wm. H. English, Marshall Jewell, Anson G. McCook, John C. New, Ex-Governor Cornell of New York, Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania, Governor Foster of Ohio, Governor Kinkead of Nevada, Governor Colquitt of Georgia, Governor Hoyt of Wyoming, Professor Morse, Professor Proctor, and Professor Newbury, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. J. P. Newman, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, Wm. Cullsn Bry-ant. Bayard Taylor, Wendell Phillips, William H. Vander-bilt (of whom Mr. Bogardus took the only picture that Mr. Vanderbilt has ever allowed to be sold), Geo. W. Curtis, Horace Greeley, Ole Bull, Secretary Chandler, Ex-Secretary Hunt, Ex-Attorney-General Wayne McVeagh, Ex-Postmaster General James, Secretary Teller, Ex-Comptroller Knox, Judge Blatchford, Schuyler Colfax, Jay Gould, Robert Ingersoll, Senator Tabor, Senator Sabin, Dr. Bliss of Washington, Rev. Jos. Cook, and many others too numerous to mention, the above list abundantly demonstrating the fact, that Mr. Bogardus is the leading photographer of our presidents, senators, congressmen, clergymen and men of note in the various walks of commercial and social life. The best pictures of Arthur, Blaine, and the late President Garfield ever taken, are those of Mr. Bogardus, and have met and still are meeting with an enormous sale. He conducts every branch of the business in a masterly manner, and defies competition in style, pose and finish, while he only charges six dollars per dozen for the finest imperial cards. His club system has become decidedly popular. Parties of ten combining can obtain one dozen each of pictures in the best style of finish, while the person getting up the club is entitled to one dozen gratis. As the work is just the same as in his regular eight dollar picture, and he does not resort to extra charges as most photographers do if a resetting is desired, the club system, has become vastly popular, especially so as Mr. Bogardus permanently retains the same high standard of excellence for club pictures as for any others. Supplied as his studio is with all the accessories pertaining to the best class of artistic photography, and coupled with his recognized skill and talents, his work cannot be excelled for truthful delineation, brilliancy of expression and harmony of effect. Mr. Bogardus is as enterprising as he is conscientiously attentive to the wants of every patron, and edits and publishes The Camera, an eight page monthly paper of good size, nicely printed and, typographically speaking, being most attractive, while Mr. Bogardus displays marked editorial ability, and issues a journal containing matter alike interesting, amusing and instructive to all readers. As he uses the instantaneous process, he is able to take children's pictures quite as satisfactorily as those of adults, and which is an important point.
QUELLE[New Yorks great industries (1884) 113]