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Message:: [QUOTE="Pat P, post: 7026, member: 201"]Fascinating info and great detective work! Fig, five years ago I sold a photo done by George Rockwood of NYC. The Rockwood who did my photo had his studio in lower Manhattan, at 839 Broadway, which is at the intersection of East 13th Street and Broadway. This is about 6 blocks or so west of Avenue B, which starts at East 14th Street and goes south for 13 short blocks where it stops at Houston Street. Anyone who lived on Avenue B would have been pretty close to Rockwood's studio. So the other Adelaide who lived on Avenue B may have been the one in the photograph. In case it's the same photographer, here's the info about him I had in my listing... --------------------------------------------- A wonderful early 1900s studio photograph of a handsome young Canadian soldier by George Rockwood (1882-1911), a noted New York City photographer. The photo is framed in a handsome period gold wood frame with nicely done carving. George Rockwood was born in Troy, New York, and was college educated, earning a PhD. (Some sources have cited that he received his degree from Columbia University and some that it was from the University of Chicago.) Initially, Rockwood worked as a reporter for the Troy Daily Times and then became the managing editor of the Troy Daily Post. In the mid-1850s, Rockwood began working as a photographer in St. Louis and then in 1857 opened a photography studio in New York City, where he remained until his death in 1911. Rockwood is believed to have introduced the French carte-de-visite format of photography into the United States in the late 1850s. He belonged to the top photographic societies, and wrote articles for their journals. His obituary shares that during his career Rockwood photographed more than 350,000 people. The photograph has Rockwood's "Rockwood New York" embossed stamp in the lower right corner.[/QUOTE]

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