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American photographer
Portrait of A.N. Hardy
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 . He also made "electric-light portraits" of
roller skaters in 1883.
[5]
Biography
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 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. 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
Examples of Hardy's work are in the collections of the following institutions:
References
^
"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
^
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
External links
Images
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