Photographer
Alexander Edouart
504 Kearney St.
San Francisco
Reverse of the card at the left
Alexander Joseph Edouart
(1818-1892)
Sources: biography in Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical
Dictionary, 1840-1865 By Peter E. Palmquist, Thomas R. Kailbourn, US
census, newspaper items as noted
Timeline
1818 Nov 05
London, UK, Alexander Edouart is born to Auguste Edouart and his wife
Mademoiselle Vital
1847-1848
Italy, Edouart studies art
1948-1950
New York as painter and daguerreotypist
1952 Sep 08
San Francisco, CA, Edouart arrives in California by ship
1857
Edouart accompanies Mendocino Hunting party doing many sketches used
later
1858-1859
San Francisco Edouart establishes art studio at 94 Montgomery st
1859
Edouart travels to France and England
1860
US census San Francisco, CA, Edouart as artist
1860 Jul
Edouart San Francisco, CA, opens studio at se corner of Montgomery and
California sts
1860 July-Aug
San Francisco, CA, as photographer Edouart partners with Hamilton
Campbell in gallery at 182 Washington, specializing in water colored
photographs
1861 - 1865
San Francisco, CA, as photographer opens own gallery at 634 Washington
st
1865 - 1867
San Francisco, CA, as photographer, studio at corner of Clay and
Kearny, 504 Kearny
1870
San Francisco, CA, Edouart partners with David Cobb still at 504
Kearny
1881
San Francisco, CA, Edouart and Cobb add a location at 1144 Market
st
1883 Feb 06
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle news item, Edouart operates studio at 6
Turk st
1887 -1890
Los Angeles, CA, Edouart and Son establish gallery at 121 s Spring st
and then 217 ½ Spring st
1892 Nov 06
Los Angeles, CA, Alexander Edouart dies
The cabinet card on the left would have been
finished between 1865 and 1869 while Edouart was at 504 Kearny,
San Francisco, CA, and before the partnership with David Cobb.
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle - 06 Feb 1883
Los Angeles Times - 07 Nov 1892
Photographer: Edouart and Cobb
example from auction site
Probably finished around 1870
when Cobb was a partner 504 Kearny.
reverse of the card at the left
photographer: Edouart and Cobb
504 Kearny st, San Francisco, CA
CDV example from auction site
reverse of card at left
photographer: Edouart and Cobb
504 Kearny st, San Francisco, CA
CDV example from auction site
reverse of card at left
photographer: Edouart and Cobb
634 Washington St, San Francisco, CA
CDV example from auction site
reverse of card at left
photographer: Edouart and Cobb
504 Kearny st, San Francisco, CA
CDV example from auction site
reverse of card at left
photographer: Edouart and Cobb
504 Kearny st, San Francisco, CA
example from auction site
reverse of card at left
photographer: Edouart and Cobb
504 Kearny st, San Francisco, CA
example from auction site
(poorly trimmed)
reverse of card at left
photographer: Edouart and Cobb
reverse not available
example from auction site
504 Kearney Street, San Francisco, CA
example from auction site
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