Tag: by Pywell (William R.)

Wikpedia says: William Redish Pywell (June 9, 1843 – 1887) was a 19th-century American photographer. He first worked for Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner making a photographic record of the American Civil War, this work was published by Gardner in 1866 as “Photographic Sketch Book of the War” Vols. 1 & 2. (Washington, DC. Philp & Solomons). After the war, he traveled with George Custer as the official photographer of the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition. He also accompanied Alexander Gardner on the Kansas Expedition.

SMU Libraries says: William Redish Pywell (1843-1887) worked for Mathew Brady and later Alexander Gardner as a photographer during the Civil War. He spent some time in Austin, Texas ca. 1867 where he was the partner of F. A. Sterzing in the gallery of Pywell & Sterzing. It seems he was acquainted with William J. Oliphant whom he likely met in Washington, D.C. when Oliphant studied photography in Alexander Gardner’s studio during the late 1860s. Pywell went on to be the official photographer of the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873. During 1874-1875 he was a photographer on the Navy’s Transit of Venus Expedition in Tasmania. Pywell had a studio in Louisiana during the late 1870s-1880s. His sister, Laura Virginia Pywell (1850-1881), was married to the noted photographer Timothy O’Sullivan (1840-1882).