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Charles Delevan Mosher was born on February 10, 1829, in New York, United States.
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Charles Delevan Mosher
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Charles was apprenticed to an Albany, New York, United States cabinetmaker, from 1845 to 1849.
Career
Charles operated a portable studio in various small towns covering western New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, United States from 1850 to 1962. In a year he opened a Chicago portrait studio, where he specialized first in cartes de visite, then in cabinet photographs.
On May 18, 1889, Mosher deposited about 8,000 photographs of prominent Chicago citizens in the City Hall vault, to be opened at that city's 1976 bicentennial. His clientele included such persons as President Lincoln, Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan and suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. He imported his cameras and lenses from England's famous Dallmeyer optical works, and instituted improved skylights in his studios, adopted by gallery owners in Europe and the United States.
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1850 - 1862
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1863