Barnett M. Clinedinst

Obituary in the Shenandoah Herald on December 28, 1900

Barnett M. Clinedinst Sr. (December 1835 – December 21, 1900) was an American photographer and inventor.^[1]^{[note 1]} He invented the viewfinder and the mirror-and-prism "reflex" arrangement for which the single-lens reflex camera is named.^[2]

Biography

He was born around December 1835 or 1837 in Woodstock, Virginia.^{[note 2]}^[3] He was a bugler during the American Civil War for Stonewall Jackson.^[1]

He died on December 28, 1900 in Washington, DC.

Children

Barnett McFee Clinedinst, who served as official White House portrait photographer for the Presidential administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.^[1]^[2]
Benjamin West Clinedinst, a painter.^[4]

References

1 2 3 "B. M'F. Clinedinst, Photographer, 90. He Took Camera Portraits of Roosevelt, McKinley and Taft. Succumbs in Florida Home". New York Times. March 18, 1953. Retrieved 2015-01-09. He was the son of the late Barnett Clinedinst, and early photographer who was a bugler with the Confederate Army of General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, and the late Mrs. Caroline South Clinedinst. ...
1 2 Barnett M. Clinedinst at the Camera Heritage Museum; published no later than April 15, 2011 (date of the earliest version on archive.org); retrieved December 3, 2014
↑ Clinedinst's invention changed photography, by Charles Culbertson, at the News Leader (archived at GlobalPhotographyNews); published November 2, 2013; retrieved December 3, 2014
↑ Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925, edited by David Bernard Dearinger; published 2004 by Hudson Hills Press (via Google Books)

Notes

↑ His name appears as "Barnett M. Clinedinst, Sr." in some sources. He appears as "Barnett Michael Clinedinst" in a Library of Congress index. His son is named "Barnett McFee Clinedinst". No definitive document has been found.
↑ He used "December 1835" in the 1900 United States Census. Sources vary as to the exact year: the News-Leader Archived January 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. says 1836, the New York Public Library says "ca. 1837", and the Camera Heritage Museum says "1838 abt".

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[jrobit-1] 1 2 3 "B. M'F. Clinedinst, Photographer, 90. He Took Camera Portraits of Roosevelt, McKinley and Taft. Succumbs in Florida Home". New York Times. March 18, 1953. Retrieved 2015-01-09. He was the son of the late Barnett Clinedinst, and early photographer who was a bugler with the Confederate Army of General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, and the late Mrs. Caroline South Clinedinst. ...

[CHM-3] 1 2 Barnett M. Clinedinst at the Camera Heritage Museum; published no later than April 15, 2011 (date of the earliest version on archive.org); retrieved December 3, 2014

[NewsLeader-5] Clinedinst's invention changed photography, by Charles Culbertson, at the News Leader (archived at GlobalPhotographyNews); published November 2, 2013; retrieved December 3, 2014

[NAD-6] Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925, edited by David Bernard Dearinger; published 2004 by Hudson Hills Press (via Google Books)

[2] His name appears as "Barnett M. Clinedinst, Sr." in some sources. He appears as "Barnett Michael Clinedinst" in a Library of Congress index. His son is named "Barnett McFee Clinedinst". No definitive document has been found.

[4] He used "December 1835" in the 1900 United States Census. Sources vary as to the exact year: the News-Leader Archived January 9, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. says 1836, the New York Public Library says "ca. 1837", and the Camera Heritage Museum says "1838 abt".