Isaiah West Taber
Isaiah West Taber
American, 1830–1912
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French, born 1841, active 1869–1880s
American, born Switzerland, 1826–1899
BiographyTaber opened his first photographic studio in Syracuse, New York before 1864. In 1864 Taber moved to San Francisco, California where he opened a studio and photographic publishing firm in 1871. By the 1890s Taber had opened studios in London, England and in Europe. After the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) went bankrupt in 1873-1874, Taber acquired and printed Watkins old negatives taken between 1861 and 1873, mostly views of Yosemite National Park, California.
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