Tag: by Brown (George O.)

Kelbaugh, Directory of Civil War Photographers, Volume Two, p5 says: Brown, G.O., photographer, employee of Richard Walzl’s gallery. 267 W. Lexington [Philadelphia] (ca. 1865); editor of Richard Walzl’s The Photographer’s Friend and signed Walzl’s photograph receipts as cashier (1870’s-1880’s).

Wikipedia says: George Oscar Brown (?–?) Active 1860–1889. Information on Brown is scant. In April 1866, under the direction of Dr. Reed Bonteceau, Brown, at the time just a hospital steward at the Army Medical Museum in Washington D.C, was hired as an assistant cameraman by the museum’s photographer, William Bell. The assignment was primarily to document medical specimens (bones, skulls &c.) on the Wilderness and Spotsylvania battlefields of Virginia. Their guide on that occasion was none other than Lt. George E. Chancellor, Co. E, 9th Va. Cav., after whose family the battlefield is named. Though new to the field of photography, Brown did respectable work, producing a number of stereo photographs that have aided in our comprehension of those terrible battles. In the 1868 census, Brown was listed as a photographer at the Medical Museum. By 1870, Brown was promoting and instructing others in the use of the “Porcelain Print” process, which was patented by photographer Egebert [sic] Guy Fowx. In 1972 Brown was elected Secretary of The Maryland Photographic Association. Brown’s trail is lost after 1873.