Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)

Aliases: Alexander (1821) Gardner

Professions: Daguerreotypist; Photographer

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  Alexander GARDNER (photographer). Gardner's

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  ALEXANDER GARDNER, Gardners Sketch Book of the War.

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  ALEXANDER GARDNER (1821-1882)

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  LINCOLN, Abraham. GARDNER, Alexander, Photographer. Carte-de-visite photograph signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, backstamp of "Gardner...Washington. D.C.," [taken 9 August 1863]. Albumen photograph, 3 15/16 x 2 3/8 in., neatly mounted on stiff

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Alexander Gardner Biography

(b Paisley, Scotland, 17 Oct 1821; d Washington, DC, 11 Dec 1882). American photographer of Scottish birth. He was apprenticed to a jeweller (c. 1835–43) until his interest in optics, astronomy, chemistry, literature and social welfare led him to move to Glasgow. There he took a position as a reporter for the news journal Sentinel , of which he eventually became editor. He is believed to have been a self-taught photographer. Gardner had plans to found a Utopian socialist community in the USA, but when he emigrated in 1856 it was with a fare paid for by the photographer Mathew B. Brady. They had met in England in 1851 at the Great Exhibition. Brady appointed him manager of another branch of his gallery in Washington, DC, in 1858, after first giving him a position in his studio in New York.

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