Monday, January 23, 2023

Alexander Edouart


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.


Petaluma (CA) Evening Argus - 18 Apr 1873


San Francisco (CA) Chronicle - 06 Feb 1883

Los Angeles Herald - 21 Jun 1889


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
photographer: Edouart and Cobb
504 Kearney Street, San Francisco, CA
example from auction site
Phoographer: Edouart and Cobb
504 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA
example from auction site
reverse of card at left
photographer: Alexander Edouart
No 6 Turk St, San Francisco, CA
example from auction site
photographer: Alexander Edouart
No 6 Turk St, San Francisco, CA
example from auction site
reverse design for both cards at left

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