Amory Nelson Hardy

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.[4] 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[4] 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.[4] 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

  1. ↑ "Death of A.N. Hardy". Photo-Era. 26 (4). 1911. OCLC 317760743.
  2. ↑ Somerville, Arlington and Belmont directory for 1869-70. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co., 1869
  3. ↑ Rollin H. Neale (1878), Letter to William Lloyd Garrison – via Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
  4. 1 2 3 Boston Globe 1911.
  5. ↑ Edward L. Wilson, ed. (1883). "Electric-Light Pictures". Philadelphia Photographer. 20 (236): 255. Roller-Skate Carnival
  6. ↑ Boston Directory, 1873
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ↑ "Members' Names", Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1879
  9. ↑ "Chicago Convention of the P. A. of A." Photographic Times. New York: 201–206. 1880.
  10. ↑ "Photographers", Boston Directory, 1888, p. 1502 ; "Photographers", Boston Directory, 1896, p. 1806
  11. ↑ Boston Athenaeum Online Catalog, retrieved August 1, 2017
  12. ↑ "Dennis Historical Society Archive". Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Visual Information Access". Harvard University. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Artist: A.N. Hardy". New York: International Center of Photography. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Photographers in The New York Public Library's Photography Collection" (PDF). New York Public Library. 2010.
  16. ↑ "James G. Blaine, 1884 Republican presidential candidate". Retrieved August 1, 2017 – via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
  17. ↑ "Mary Ashton Rice Livermore", National Portrait Gallery Collection, Smithsonian, retrieved July 11, 2017

Bibliography

  • "Inside View of a Boston Photographic Studio". Photographic Times and American Photographer. New York. 12 (135). 1882. (About Hardy)
  • "A.N. Hardy". Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Boston. 1885. p. 286.
  • "Amory N. Hardy Dead; Prominent as a Photographer for 40 Years in Boston and Won Many Medals for His Work", Boston Daily Globe, February 26, 1911
  • "A. N. Hardy". WorldCat. OCLC.
  • Items related to Hardy via Digital Public Library of America
  • Ron Polito (ed.). "Boston Photographers Cited in 19th Century American Photographic Journals: A Bibliographic Database" – via Photographic Historical Society of New England. (includes info related to A.N. Hardy)
  • Flickr. Portrait of Clara Batchelder by Hardy, 202 Washington St., Boston, MA.
  • Boston Public Library. Portrait by Hardy. No. 493 Washington Street, artist photographer, Boston, Mass.

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