Unidentified Boy 2022-952-01-pg43d
/Noble & Fell’s Portrait Photograph of an Unidentified boy
THE PHOTOGRAPHER/ PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO:
Photographers: Skelton Sanford Noble and A. W. Fell
Active in Petaluma: 1874 as Noble & Fells, sometime thereafter until 1876 simply as S. S. Noble
Biographical Note: Noble traveled throughout California staying in numerous communities for various amounts of time. It appears that he worked with A. W. Fell in the Noble & Fell partnership in 1874 and sometime after operated the studio by himself as the imprint of his cartes de visit replace “Noble & Fell’s” with simply “S. S. Noble, Sunbeam Gallery, Main Street, Petaluma, Cal. Next door to Wickersham’s & Co’s Bank.”
Bibliography: Palmquist, pgs. 420-421; Mautz, pg.99 and 128.
THE SITTER:
Name: Unknown
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THE PHOTOGRAPH:
Format / Size: carte de visite, approximately 6.25 x 10.5 cm
Medium: albumen photographic print mounted on cardstock
Description, front:
Description, back: Noble & Fell’s Sunbeam Gallery, Main St., Petaluma, Next door to Wickersham & Co’s Bank.
Date: 1874
Condition:
Owner: Petaluma Historical Library & Museum, 2022-952-01-pg43d, Schwobeda/Bloom/Taylor/DeMartin Family & Friends Album
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