Silas Selleck
Silas Wright Selleck (1828-1885) was an American businessman and photographer. He was the proprietor of the Bay View Park Hotel in San Francisco (Bayview Park, San Francisco). Yale University has a collection of his work in their archives.[1] His work includes daguerreotypes and ambrotypes.
He assisted photographer Henry Sherman Beals in Sacramento.[2] After a fire in Sacramento he partnered with George Howard Johnson in Sam Francsico.[3]
He had a photographic gallery at 415 Montgomery Street in San Francisco called the Cosmopolitan Gallery.[4][5]
In 1863, he photographed the chief of the California Geological Survey, Josiah Whitney. Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864 is an albumen silver print he took that is in the National Portrait Gallery.[6]
His portraits include carte de visite.[7] Thomas Almond Ayers overpainted one of his photographs.[8]
He had a wife Sarah, a son, and two daughters.[9]
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Bishop William Ingraham Kip -
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References
[edit]- ^ "Selleck, Silas Wright, approximately 1828-1885 | Archives at Yale". archives.yale.edu.
- ^ Palmquist, Peter E.; Kailbourn, Thomas R. (April 8, 2000). Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3883-5 – via Google Books.
- ^ Palmquist, Peter E.; Kailbourn, Thomas R. (April 8, 2000). Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3883-5 – via Google Books.
- ^ "English: Jim Henrettie, Carte de Visite by Silas Selleck, San Francisco, California".
- ^ E, Story, George LeachMathews, Henry. "Some reminiscences of a charter member" – via Wikimedia Commons.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "11 Photographs By Silas Selleck Image: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search Engine Public Domain Search}". garystockbridge617.getarchive.net.
- ^ "Silas Selleck portrait of an unidentified man - OHS Digital Collections". staff.digitalcollections.ohs.org.
- ^ Palmquist, Peter E.; Kailbourn, Thomas R. (April 8, 2000). Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3883-5 – via Google Books.
- ^ Palmquist, Peter E.; Kailbourn, Thomas R. (2000). Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3883-5.
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