Eugene A Dillhoff

Photographer: E. A. Dillhoff
Broadway cor. Madison St., Brooklyn
The cabinet card above was probably done before 1901 when Eugene Oxford began working with Dillhoff.

Eugene A. Dillhoff
(1866 - 1937)

Timeline
1866 Sep 20
New York, Eugene A Dillhoff is born to Gerald H Dillhoff and Marguerite
1888
Brooklyn, NY, city directory Eugene A Dillhoff as clerk; res 621 Madison
1891
Brooklyn, NY, city directory, Eugene A Dillhoff NOT listed
1892 Feb 16
Brooklyn, NY, state census, Eugene Dillhoff as clerk
1894, 1895
Brooklyn, NY, city directory Eugene Dillhoff NOT listed
1897, 1898
Brooklyn, NY, city directory E A Dillhoff as photographer at 940 Madison; res 621 Madison
1899
Brooklyn, NY, city directory Dillhoff NOT listed

1900
Brooklyn, NY, city directory, Eugene A Dillhohh as photographer; res 821 Madison; Oxford NOT listed
1900 Jun 14
Brooklyn, NY, US census, Eugene Dillhoff as photographer; res 823 Jefferson Av
1901
Brooklyn, NY, city directory, Eugene A Dillhoff as photographer at 940 Madison; res 823 Jefferson; Oxford NOT listed
1902 May
Studio portrait photographs of American Indian performers in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show created by the photographic studio of Oxford & Dillhoff in Brooklyn, New York.
1902, 1904, 1906
Brooklyn, NY, city directory, Eugene A Dillhoff as photographer at 1365 Broadway; res 823 Jefferson Av; Ernest C Oxford as photographer at 1365 Broadway; res same; also listed is “Oxford and Dillhoff” photographers at 1365 Broadway

1907
Brooklyn, NY, city directory, Eugene A Dillhoff as photographer at 1365 Broadway; res 823 Jefferson Av; Ernest C Oxford as photographer at 1365 Broadway; res 120 Woodbine; also listed is “Oxford and Dillhoff” photographers at 1365 Broadway
1912, 1913
Brooklyn, NY, city directory, Eugene A Dillhoff as photographer at 1365 Broadway; frames 1429 Broadway’ res 823 Jefferson av; Ernest C Oxford photographer 1365 Broadway; frames, 1429 Broadway; res 129 Woodbine (listings for Oxford are a bit is garbled both years)
1930
Brooklyn, NY, US census, Eugene Dillhoff as photographer
1933
Brooklyn, NY, city directory Eug A Dillhoff as photographer at 1323 Bushwick Av; res same (Eugene’s sister Amy is now living at 823 Jefferson) (Ernest Oxford NOT listed)
1937 Dec 4
Brooklyn, NY, state records Eugene Dillhoff dies at age 72

Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle - 07 Dec 1937

Note the name is misspelled

Documents show that Dillhoff had a studio at 1365 Broadway from 1902 to 1913. It was perhaps a bit longer but there are no records to support it so far.

Information from contributor D Guggisberg:
The page you have on Eugene Dillhoff showing an example of a Native American, the identity of that man is:
Name: William Sitting Bull (ca. 1878-1909)
Native Name: Runs-away-from-him/Nakicipa
remark: only surviving son of Chief Sitting Bull, Lakota leader

William Sitting Bull was a performer with Frederick Cummins' Indian Congress in 1902 when that photograph was taken.

Repository of the original print:
Yale Beinecke Library

photographer Oxford and Dillhoff
1365 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY
example from pinterest

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