Background
Josiah Johnson Hawes was born in 1808 in Wayland, Massachusetts, United States.
Josiah Johnson Hawes was born in 1808 in Wayland, Massachusetts, United States.
Josiah Hawes began his career as a portrait painter. He then studied photography in Boston with Francis Fauvel-Gouraud.
In 1843 Josiah Hawes and Southworth formed the partnership of Southworth & Hawes, with studios on Tremont Row, in Boston's Scollay Square. The studio produced daguerreotype portraits of many notables.
After the partnership with Southworth dissolved in 1863, Josiah Hawes continued as a photographer on Tremont Row for several decades, through the 1890s. In his later years he was known as the "oldest working photographer in this country."
Demonstration of the Surgical Use of Ether
1847Young girl with portrait of George Washington
1850Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Lajos Kossuth
1851Unidentified woman
1852Portrait of J.J. Hawes and his daughter Marion
1852View of Brattle St.
1855Boston Common
1875Portrait of Robert Browning
View of Boston
Daniel Webster
1883Lemuel Shaw
1883Self-portrait
1890Self-portrait
1890Self-portrait
1895In 1849 Josiah Hawes married Nancy Stiles Southworth (Albert’s sister). They had three children: Alice, Marion and Edward.