Harry Fisk Brown

photographer: Brown's Studio - Harry Fisk Brown
Gothenburg, NE example from LOST GALLERY

Harry Fisk Brown
(1854-1921)

1854 Jun 15
Defiance, OH, state records, Harry Fisk Brown is born to George R Brown and Elizabeth Platt
1879
Nebraska Business directory, H F Brown is not listed
1880 Jun 22
Dodge, MN, US census, Harry Brown, living with parents, as ‘artist photo”
1883 Sep 10
Ida Grove, IA, state record, Harry Fisk Brown and Margaret Josephine Sanner are married
1885 May 23
Ida Grove, IA, state record, son Clifford U Brown Is born
1892 (see entry 1897 Dec 18)
Gothenburg (NE) Independent news, 1897 Dec 18, says H F Brown began photo studio about this date
1894 Mar 03
Gothenburg (NE) Independent, news item says Brother of H F Brown is visiting to learn photography

1897 Mar
Central City, NE, state record, daughter Gladys Irene Brown is born
1897 Dec 18
Gothenburg (NE) Independent news item says H F Brown is going to relocate to Central City soon.
1898 May 05
Central City (NE) Nonpareil news item says H F Brown is located at Stutsman’s old gallery
1899 Nov 16
Central City (NE) Democrat small ad for Brown, photographer, at Brown’s studio, ground floor
1900 Jun 13
Central City, NE, US census, Harry Brown as photographer
1900 Sep 06
Central City (NE) Nonpareil, small ad for Brown, photographer at his old stand, ground floor, Central City
1900 Sep 06
Central City (NE) Democrat, small rather cryptic item says photographer Arwine was apparently subbing for Brown but skipped town; Brown is back after a vacation

1900 Sep 20
Central City (NE) Democrat, small ad says Brown, photographer it at his “old stand” ready for business
1902 Jan 24
Genoa (NE) Times, small item say H F Brown is “here to stay”
1902 Mar 27
Central City, NE, news item says H F Brown of Genoa is in town for repairs to gallery “occupied” by Edgar Draper; son Clifford is a telegraph operator
1907 Mar 01
Genoa, NE, state records, son Dean Sanner Brown is born
1910 Apr 19
Genoa Village, NE, US census, Harry F Brown as photographer with gallery
1916 Feb 06
Butte (MT) Miner small ad says the “Whitehall” Studio is for sale, building and complete outfit, H F Brown, box 84 Whitehall
1920 Jan 10
Eardwell, MT, US census, Harry F Brown as Chicken Farmer
1921 Nov 13
Woodburn, OR, state records, Harry F Brown dies at age 67

Really not very much was found to assemble a timeline for Harry Fisk Brown. Here is a rather sketchy recap:

1892 – 1897 gallery in Gothenburg, NE
1898 – 1902 possibly had a gallery in both Central City and Genoa, NE, at the same time
1907 – 1910 Genoa, NE - possibly had a gallery
1916 Butte, MT - possibly had a gallery
These dates are very hazy. Some personal items are included to show location.

There was also a Harry S Brown photographer, in Nebraska.

The Studio called Star Gallery was advertised from about February 1890 to February of 1891 operated by Will Taylor and then after December 1890 by J H Woods.

The Gallery at 418 Court Street in Beatrice was operated by H J Riggert in 1904 and by L E Curtis in 1907, according to the only city directories of the era.

Gothenburg (NE) Independent - 03 Mar 1894

Gothenburg (NE) Independent - 18 Dec 1897

Central City (NE) Nonpareil - 05 May 1898

Central City (NE) Democrat - 16 Nov 1899

Central City (NE) Nonpareil - 06 Sep 1900

Central City (NE) Democrat - 06 Sep 1900

Central City (NE) Democrat - 20 Sep 1900

Central City (NE) Democrat - 20 Sep 1900

The Genoa (NE) Times - 24 Jan 1902

Cenral City (NE) Democrat - 27 Mar 1902

Butte (MT) Miner - 06 Feb 1916

Salem (OR) Statesman - 21 Dec 1921

Salem (OR) Capital Journal - 25 Mar 1922

photographer: F A Brown
Falls City, NE
example from auction site
(no connection to H F Brown has been found)

photogrpher Star Gallery
Beatrice, NE
example from auction site
(no connection to H F Brown has been found)

Reverse of card at left

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Soderberg, Pahr (Pont)

photographer:
Soderberg
Sutton, Nebraska

photographer:
Soderberg
Sutton, Nebraska

Pahr and Pont Soderberg are the same person. Both are listed in various documents with wife Anna and son Clyde. Son Clyde is listed as an electrician or electrical salesman.

There exists a cabinet card imprinted by a Smith and Soderberg working in Marengo, IA, in the 1880’s but no evidence has been found to show that Parh (Pont) Soderberg was ever in Iowa. Such a partnership could only have been in that brief period between his immigration in 1871 and 1884 when he is reported working in a photograph studio on a rail car, in Lincoln, NE. By 1889 he was living in Sutton, NB.

Sometime during 1916 or 1917 Pahr (Pont) Soderberg and his wife Anna moved to Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA. He appears to retire from photography altogether. And the given name Pahr is used from that time on.

Sometime between 1920 and 1924, their son Clyde Payne Soderberg and his wife Francis, divorced, and he moved in with his parents in California. In 1937, Clyde’s son, Robert, also moves to California at the same address according to city directories and school yearbooks.

1852 Jan 08
Arvika Sweden, Pahr (Pont) Soderberg is born
1871
Pahr Soderberg arrives in the United States
1883
(from 1887 Jan 21 (Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal) Soderberg and partners build an opera house
1884 Jan 01
The (Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal news item Soderberg is in Lincoln with his “photograph car”
1887 Jan 21
The (Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal news item describes Opera House managed in 1883 by Pont Soderberg
1887 May 22
The (Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal news item mentions Pont Soderberg is at Harvard (NE) taking pictures. Harvard is on the rail line that includes Sutton, NE
1887 Dec 22
Brown County World, Hiawatha, KS, news item Eliza Payne and Soderberg marry; mentions Soderberg has “…accumulated a handsome fortune…”

- continued on next row -

1889 May 22
Sutton, NE, son Clyde Payne Soderberg is born
1891 Nov 01
The (Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal item mentions Soderberg is in Clay Center (KS) that week
1900 Jun 08
Sutton, NE, US census as photographer; res 89 Maltby av
1909 Apr 20
Clay County, Clay Center, NE(?) Naturalized as citizen
1910 Apr 27
Sutton, NE, US census as photographer; res 80 Maltby av
1911 Apr 13
Sutton, NE, applies for passport to travel with wife Anna, “5 or 6 months”; signature Pahr Soderberg; copy at right
1916
Pasadena, CA, city directory NOT listed
1917
Pasadena, CA, city directory lists Pahr and Anna at 1925 Casa Grande
1918
Pasadena, CA, city directory NOT listed

1919
Pasadena, CA, city directory show Pahr and Anna at 597 Claremont dr
1920
Pasadena, CA, city directory not available
1921 - 1925
Pasadena, CA, city directory lists Pahr Soderberg and Anna at 1181 Stevenson av; Clyde not shown
1927- 1947
Pasadena, CA, city directory lists Pahr Soderberg, wife Anna and son Clyde at same address 1181 Mar Vista; in 1938 and a few years after that, Clyde’s son Robert joins them at the same address
1948 Jul 25
Parh (Pont) Soderberg dies in Los Angeles County, CA

The photographs, above left, must have been finished between about 1889 and 1916 before Soderberg moved to California

1911 Passport Application

The (Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal - 01 Jan 1884


The (Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal - 21 Jan 1887


The (Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal - 03 Mar 1887


The (Lincoln) Nebraska State Journal - 22 May 1887

Brown County (Hiawatha, KS) World - 30 Dec 1887

photographer: Soderberg
Sutton, NE
example from auction site

photographer: Soderberg
Sutton, NE
example from auction site

photographer: Soderberg
Sutton, NE
example from auction site

Note the same post used in two of these cards

photographer: Soderberg
Sutton, NE
Example from mj aux on Flickr

photographer: Soderberg
Sutton, NE
Example from mj aux on Flickr

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Christensen

Several photographers named Christensen were found, four in Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska. This item from the Bulletin of Photography vol 22 - 1918 makes A C Christensen seem the best choice: “A. C. Christensen of Nelson, NE has disposed of his studio to H F Galusha.”

Nelson, NE, is only about 80 miles from St. Paul, NE, but the only A C Christensen found, although he lived in St Paul, NE, 1900-1910, was not born until 1891, much too late to be the photographer here.

So at this point, the Christensen credited here was probably an itinerant photographer based in another larger town. St Paul, NE, was on a rail line from Grand Island, NE, and other points, such as Duluth, MN.

Commenter D W Bradley has discovered evidence that the initials are indeed H P Christensen and not P H.

Evidence so far indicates the photographer Christensen of Nebraska was the same as the Christensen of Minnesota.

photographer: H P Christensen
Grand Island and St Paul, NE
example from auction site

photographer Christensen
25 West Superior Street, Duluth, MN
example from Cabinet Card Gallery

photographer: Christensen
25 West Superior Street, Duluth, MN
example from auction site

photographer: Christensen
Duluth, MN
example from auction site

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Lee

Lee of York, NE
and Stromsburg, NE

This card is imprinted
Lee at York, NE
and
Lee at Stromsburg, NE
The 1910 US census lists:
H Lee at Center City, NE
Alex Lee at Bryant, Fillmore, NE
Clifford W Lee at Plainview, NE
Albert Lee at Union, NE
Margaret M Lee at Omaha, NE

All of these small towns, with the exception of Plainview, NE, are within 100 miles of York, NE.
York, Stromsburg, Center City and Bryant are about 30 miles apart.

At last count there were 21 photographers named Lee in the cabinet Card era. As the field is narrowed down to the Lee that possibly finished this card, the information will be added here.

Without a first name, it is difficult to tell which Lee in this list, if any, did this card.

photographer Lee
York, NE
example from auction site

photographer: Lee
York, NE
example from oldcabinetcards.com

photographer: Lee's Studio
York, NE
example from fussbook

photographer:H F Lee
York, NE
(not a good scan so the name is a bit of a guess)
example from auction site

The next card is probably not the same as the Nebraska photographer Lee.

Oconto, WI is 700 miles from York, NE.

photographer: M W Lee (or W M Lee)
Oconto, WI
example from auction site

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