Sunday, April 25, 2021

So Much History Preserved ~~~ Now Shared

John Hafen (left) and Walter Stringham c. 1888. Taken by George Edward Anderson

  John Hafen Born:  1856 - Scherzingen, Turgan, Switzerland

Died:   1910 - Peaceful Valley, Indiana
Known for:  Landscape, portrait, figure, and religious subject painting


George Edward Anderson 
George Edward Anderson was born in Salt Lake CityUtah, and apprenticed as a teenager under photographer Charles Roscoe Savage.[1] At Savage's Art Bazar Studio, Anderson became friends with fellow apprentices John Hafen and John F. Bennett

Hafen later becomes an accomplished artist and Bennett was instrumental in preserving Anderson's glass plate negatives.[2]:11[1][3]


Joseph Smith Family Farm, Manchester New York.
The  photograph was taken by George Edward Anderson 
By George Edward Anderson's Studio - Harold B. Lee Library Special Collections, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62430723

Ralph Snelson, Sr. (foreground) with George Edward Anderson in Anderson’s Springville studio. Circa 1906. 

Snelson Photo Color Lab 

https://images.app.goo.gl/JvPN5x9CmoTEaQ3t7



John F. Bennett 

 

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