William Henry Getchell (1829–1910) was a photographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He was born in Hallowell, Maine, on March 10, 1829. He lived in Peoria, Illinois, and then moved to Boston. In 1857 he married Sarah Hartwell; they had one child—Frederick Getchell (b. 1858). In the early 1860s Getchell worked in Boston with George M. Silsbee and John G. Case as Silsbee, Case & Co.; and again with Case as Case & Getchell, ca.1862-1864. He later ran a solo photography studio in the 1860s and 1870s. As of 1898 he lived in Dorchester. He died in Boston in August, 1910.
References
- Photo-Era Magazine, November 1910; p.266
- Densmore. Hand-book of Hartwell genealogy, 1636-1887. 1887.
- Hapgood. The Hapgood family: descendants of Shadrach, 1656-1898. 1898.
- Boston Directory. 1861
- Gutman. John Wilkes Booth himself. Dover, Mass: Hired Hand Press, 1979.
Images
- Case & Getchell
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Portrait of Wendell Phillips, by Case & Getchell, ca.1863-1864
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Portrait of Samuel Franklin Emmons, by Case & Getchell, ca.1860-1870
- W.H. Getchell
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Oriental Tea Co., Court St., Boston
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1861
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Unidentified young woman, ca.1870s
External links
- Silsbee, Case & Co.
- Flickr. Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Silsbee, Case & Co., ca.1863
- Flickr. Portrait of the wife of George W. Holdrege, by Silsbee, Case & Co.
- Harvard University, works by Silsbee, Case & Co.
- Massachusetts Historical Society, works by Silsbee, Case & Co.
- Case & Getchell (1862–1864)
- New York Public Library. John Lothrop Motley
- New York Public Library. John Howard Payne
- Flickr. Portrait of an unidentified woman, ca.1864
- Flickr. Portrait of an unidentified man
- Flickr. Portrait of a soldier
- W.H. Getchell
- Flickr. Rose, Twin Sister of Spirit Child, Lily - Carte de Visite - 1869
- Flickr. Spirit Drawing of Lily "Sunbeam" - Carte de Visite - 1869