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- STATUS: Commercial (visit).
- BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He operated between about 1880-1884 out of Seattle and through Puget Sound on a barge which was towed from location to location. He called his gallery Judkins' Floating Sunbeam Gallery. Judkins photographed in New Westminster and up the Fraser River in Jun 1882. One of his cabinet portraits has a Seattle address with the imprint "Judkins." He was running the Pullman Photographic Gallery in Skagway, Alaska, in 1899. He relocated to Santa Maria, CA, after working as a photographer in San Francisco from 1903 to 1906. His glass negatives, including those of his Yukon days, were lost in a 1908 fire.
- IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Judkins Floating Sunbeam Gallery, Puget Sound and British Columbia" on verso of print mount. "Cor. 2nd & Columbia Streets Judkins Seattle, W.T." on front of print mount. "D. R. Judkins, Photo. Stereographs of British Columbia" on front of stereograph (orange) mount.
- REFERENCES: WIL99; Columbian, 1882 06 07/2, 1882 08 19/3, 1882 08 30/3, 1882 09 06, 1882 10 07/3, 1882 07 22/3; Mainland Guardian, 1882 08 19/3, 1882 09 09/3; (Victoria) Standard, 1882 09 16/3; Resources of British Columbia (1883); Smith (1987); Letter, Mrs. Miles W. (Polly) Weaver to Mattison, 1986 12 28.
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