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| Howe was born in ], the son of Caleb and Sophia Sheldon Howe.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title=Death of C. L. Howe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/vermont-phoenix-1837-mentioned-year-of/126196542/ |access-date=10 December 2024 |work=Vermont Phoenix |date=March 15, 1895 |location=Brattleboro Vermont |page=4}}</ref> His family moved to Dover Vermont when he was |
Howe was born in ], the son of Caleb and Sophia Sheldon Howe.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title=Death of C. L. Howe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/vermont-phoenix-1837-mentioned-year-of/126196542/ |access-date=10 December 2024 |work=Vermont Phoenix |date=March 15, 1895 |location=Brattleboro Vermont |page=4}}</ref> His family moved to ], when he was young.<ref name="history">{{cite web|author=The Brattleboro Historical Society|title=A legacy of images still enjoyed today|website=Brattleboro Reformer|date=2020-11-27|url=https://www.reformer.com/history/a-legacy-of-images-still-enjoyed-today/article_78c92e68-30be-11eb-a3bd-b702842a516f.html|access-date=2024-12-10}}</ref> | ||
| ==Career== | ==Career== | ||
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American photographer| Caleb Lysander Howe | |
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| Born | September 23, 1810 Dummerston, VT |
| Died | March 14, 1896(1896-03-14) (aged 85) Wilmington VT |
Caleb Lysander Howe (September 23, 1810 – March 14, 1896) was an American photographer.
Early life and education
Howe was born in Dummerston, Vermont, the son of Caleb and Sophia Sheldon Howe. His family moved to Dover, Vermont, when he was young.
Career
Howe began his career as a farmer. He worked circa 1830-1849 as a jeweler and watchmaker in Dover, Vermont and then later in Brattleboro Vermont where he had moved to work at a machine shop. Howe moved back to Dover and was making his living as a farmer and a singing teacher in the wintertime. He met an itinerant daguerreotype photographer who had set up a temporary studio near Howe's farm in 1852. Howe bought out the photographer's business for three hundred dollars and started a career in photography. The photographer had not stayed around long enough to teach Howe the process, so he had to speak to other photographers, including traveling to Boston to learn how to make photographic prints.
Howe worked as an itinerant photographer, temporarily setting up a gallery in North Adams, Massachusetts. He moved back to Brattleboro the next year, because North Adams had "an element of the population that did not appeal" due to work occurring nearby at the Hoosac Tunnel. Howe traveled through Windham County, Bennington County as well parts of New Hampshire, stopping for a week or two to set up a studio.
He purchased a studio from local photographer J. L. Lovell. There was a lot of demand for his portraits of local people including Civil War soldiers. Howe would often do twenty to forty photographic sittings in a day. He employed two of his sons, N. Sherman Howe and John C. Howe, at the studio as well as other photographers. A daguerreotype from the Howe studio would be 1.5 x 2 inches, and set in a small gilt frame behind glass and would sell for a dollar.
The firm became known as C. L. Howe & Sons in 1865. Howe shifted photographic formats as they became available, creating ambrotypes and tintypes in addition to prints on paper. Many of the early images of Brattleboro are from his studio.
Death and legacy
Howe died on March 14, 1896 after a short illness. He is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Brattleboro. His 1869 photograph, Blake Block, Brattleboro, Vermont, after the Fire, is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Several of his stereoscopes are in the Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views at New York Public Library.
Personal life
Howe was married twice, the first time to Cynthia Sherman on October first, 1832 in Dover Vermont, having five children two of whom survived into adulthood. His second marriage was to Martha Batchelder Simonds on May 24th, 1848. They also had five children including opera singer Mary Howe.
Images
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Cabinet card of William Morris Hunt from Howe's studio c. 1879
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Captain Charles Dwight Merriman taken by C. L. Howe
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Private J.M.B. of Co. K, 5th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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Unidentified soldier in Union first lieutenant's uniform
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Flood Damage to machine shop
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1885 studio advertisement
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1883 studio advertisement
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References
- ^ "Death of C. L. Howe". Vermont Phoenix. Brattleboro Vermont. March 15, 1895. p. 4. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ The Brattleboro Historical Society (2020-11-27). "A legacy of images still enjoyed today". Brattleboro Reformer. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
- "Caleb Lysander Howe". americansilversmiths.org. 2010-03-21. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
- ^ Cabot, M.R. (1922). Annals of Brattleboro, 1681-1895. Annals of Brattleboro, 1681-1895. Press of E. L. Hildreth & Company. p. 654. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
- "Caleb Lysander Howe". Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
- Kull, Nell (1961). History of Dover, Vermont; 200 years in a hill town. Brattleboro VT: The Book Cellar. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- Institution, Smithsonian. "Blake Block, Brattleboro, Vermont, after the Fire". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
- "Howe, C. L." NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 2024-12-10.