Amory Nelson Hardy or A.N. Hardy (1835–1911) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1][2] Portrait subjects included US president Chester A. Arthur, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, politician James G. Blaine, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison,[3] doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writer Julia Ward Howe, labor activist Florence Kelley, suffragist Mary Livermore, philanthropist Isabella Somerset, and suffragist Frances Willard.[4] He also made "electric-light portraits" of roller skaters in 1883.[5]
Biography edit
Hardy was born in Carmel, Maine, son of schoolteacher Benjamin Hardy. He married Angeline S. Davis in 1857 and had three children: Bertha, Grace, and William. As a young man he started a photography business in Lewiston, Maine, before moving to Boston[4] where he kept a studio on Winter Street (c. 1873–1878),[6] Washington Street (c. 1868 and c. 1879–1887),[7] Temple Place, and Tremont Street. He belonged to the National Photographic Association of the United States, the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association,[8] and, outside of his professional life, the Tremont Temple congregation.[4] In 1880 he exhibited photos at the first convention of the Photographers Association of America in Chicago.[9] Hardy worked in Boston during a time when a number of other professional photographers kept studios in the downtown area, including Allen & Rowell, James Wallace Black, Elmer Chickering, William H. Getchell, J.J. Hawes, E.F. Ritz, Antoine Sonrel, and John Adams Whipple.[10]
Collections edit
Examples of Hardy's work are in the collections of the following institutions:
- Boston Athenaeum[11]
- Boston Public Library
- Dennis Historical Society, Dennis, Massachusetts[12]
- Harvard University[13]
- Hingham Historical Society, Hingham, Massachusetts
- Historic New England
- International Center of Photography[14]
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- New York Public Library[15]
- US Library of Congress[16]
- US National Portrait Gallery[17]
References edit
- ^ "Death of A.N. Hardy". Photo-Era. 26 (4). 1911. OCLC 317760743.
- ^ Somerville, Arlington and Belmont directory for 1869-70. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co., 1869
- ^ Rollin H. Neale (1878), Letter to William Lloyd Garrison – via Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
- ^ a b c Boston Globe 1911.
- ^ Edward L. Wilson, ed. (1883). "Electric-Light Pictures". Philadelphia Photographer. 20 (236): 255.
Roller-Skate Carnival
- ^ Boston Directory, 1873
- ^ Around 1868 Hardy's was at no.202 Washington St.; around 1879 it was at no.493 Washington St. cf. Boston Directory, 1868; Boston Business Directory, 1879; Boston Almanac, 1887
- ^ "Members' Names", Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1879
- ^ "Chicago Convention of the P. A. of A." Photographic Times. New York: 201–206. 1880.
- ^ "Photographers", Boston Directory, 1888, p. 1502; "Photographers", Boston Directory, 1896, p. 1806
- ^ Boston Athenaeum Online Catalog, 1879, retrieved August 1, 2017
- ^ "Dennis Historical Society Archive". Retrieved August 1, 2017.
- ^ "Visual Information Access". Harvard University. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
- ^ "Artist: A.N. Hardy". New York: International Center of Photography. 2 March 2016. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
- ^ "Photographers in The New York Public Library's Photography Collection" (PDF). New York Public Library. 2010.
- ^ "James G. Blaine, 1884 Republican presidential candidate". 1884. Retrieved August 1, 2017 – via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
- ^ "Mary Ashton Rice Livermore", National Portrait Gallery Collection, Smithsonian, retrieved July 11, 2017
Bibliography edit
- "Inside View of a Boston Photographic Studio". Photographic Times and American Photographer. 12 (135). New York. 1882. (About Hardy)
- "A.N. Hardy". Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Boston. 1885. p. 286.
- "Amory N. Hardy Dead; Prominent as a Photographer for 40 Years in Boston and Won Many Medals for His Work", Boston Daily Globe, February 26, 1911
External links edit
- "A. N. Hardy". WorldCat. OCLC.
- Items related to Hardy via Digital Public Library of America
- Ron Polito (ed.). "Boston Photographers Cited in 19th Century American Photographic Journals: A Bibliographic Database". Archived from the original on 2015-09-12. Retrieved 2015-05-05 – via Photographic Historical Society of New England. (includes info related to A.N. Hardy)
- Flickr. Portrait of Clara Batchelder by Hardy, 202 Washington St., Boston, MA.
- Boston Public Library. Portrait by Hardy. No. 493 Washington Street, artist photographer, Boston, Mass.
Images edit
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Portrait by A.N. Hardy, 1872 -
Advertisement for Hardy, 1879 -
U.S. President Chester A. Arthur at Daniel Webster house, Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1882, by A.N. Hardy -
Rollerskating event at Mechanics Hall, Boston, 1883, by Hardy -
Portrait by Hardy, 19th century -
Logo of Hardy, 19th century
