Francis Hacker
Large, Panoramic Photo of Alfred H. Vaughn's Iron Foundry, Norwich, CT, c. 1880
Albumen print
8 7/16 × 16 7/8 in, mount larger
With Hacker's printed credit and title mount recto.
With Hacker's printed credit and title mount recto.
$ 950.00
Francis Hacker was an early American commercial photographer who began his career as a daguerreotypist in Augusta, Maine, then briefly operating in Massachusetts before settling in Providence, Rhode Island, 1862....
Francis Hacker was an early American commercial photographer who began his career as a daguerreotypist in Augusta, Maine, then briefly operating in Massachusetts before settling in Providence, Rhode Island, 1862. A year later, he claimed to have photographed over one thousand “public buildings and manufactories.” While that number seems suspiciously robust, he was a prolific operator who made CDVS, portraits, outdoor and aerial views, and much more. By the 1890s, he was still running his studio in Providence, now called the Hacker Photograph Co.