Augustine H. Folsom
Folsom (died 1926) or A.H. Folsom was a photographer in the Boston, Massachusetts-area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Subjects included buildings in Massachusetts, Maine, and Georgia. Folsom showed photographic work in the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association exhibitions of 1874 and 1881.
Also recorded as A. Hill Folsom
Augustine H. Folsom
A H Folsom · Public domain
- Born
- 1846
- Died
- 1926
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer
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Folsom (died 1926) or A.H. Folsom was a photographer in the Boston, Massachusetts-area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Subjects included buildings in Massachusetts, Maine, and Georgia. Folsom showed photographic work in the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association exhibitions of 1874 and 1881.
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He lived in Roxbury, c. Works by Folsom reside in the collections of the Boston Public Library; Historic New England; Metropolitan Museum, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Georgia State Archives; and the American Antiquarian Society.
• Photographs by Augustine H. Folsom: • Illustration — Concord, Massachusetts, public library, 1873 • Illustration — Roxbury, Massachusetts, c. 1880s (Historic New England) • Illustration — West End Adult Evening School, Boston, c. 1890s; photo by A.H. Folsom (Boston Public Library) • Illustration — Dyce Head, Maine, c. 1895 • Illustration — Nonamesset farmhouse Massachusetts, 19th-20th century • Illustration — People in front of a large wood-frame house, 19th-20th century • Illustration — Miss Fuller and her class, Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Boston, 1893 (Boston Public Library) • Illustration — Otto Folin in biochemistry lab at McLean Hospital, 1905 (Harvard)
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About Folsom
• Old wet-plate photographer. Boston Daily Globe, June 18, 1905 • E.B. Delabarre. Recent History of Dighton Rock. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Feb. 1919; p. 286+ Includes discussion of Folsom's photo of Dighton Rock. Google books
"Interior, 3 Autumn Street (?), Roxbury, 1882"
Augustine H. Folsom · Historic New England / Beverly Kay Brandt. The craftsman and the critic: defining usefulness and beauty in arts and crafts-era Boston. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2009
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1846
Augustine H. Folsom was born in 1846.
1926
Augustine H. Folsom died in 1926.
Illustrations by Folsom
• Ceremonies at the dedication of the Soldiers' monument: in Concord, Mass. Printed by B. Tolman, 1867. Includes illus. by Folsom. Google books • George Augustus Wheeler. History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine: including the ancient settlement of Pentagöet. Bangor, Maine: Burr & Robinson, 1875. Includes illus. by Folsom. Google books • Edwin Start. Penobscot Bay. New England Magazine, July 1896. Includes illus. by Folsom. Google books
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