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Taber, Isaiah West[1, 2]

Male 1830 - 1912  (82 years)


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  • Name Taber, Isaiah West 
    • VARIANT NAME: I.W. Taber & Co.
    Born 1830  New Bedford?, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) ca. 1870s-1890s  San Francisco, CA; California; Alaska Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 1912 
    Association Willoughby, Richard G. (Relationship: Undefined) 
    Association Badlam, Maude I. (Relationship: Undefined) 
    Association Husher, Edwin H. (Relationship: Employee) 
    Person ID I691  Camera Workers | T, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 29 Dec 2016 

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Commercial.
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A photograph of the mirage known as The Silent City, Glacier Bay, Alaska, was reputedly taken by E.H. Husher, an I.W. Taber & Co. photographer who was visiting the area in July 1889. This image was published in Chapter 10 of Badlam's aptly titled The Wonders of Alaska (1891). R.G. Willoughby also photographed the same mirage, but the landscape depicted in Willoughby's mirage is totally different from the Taber photograph.

  • Sources 
    1. [S713] (Sitka) The Alaskan, 3 (Reliability: 2), 27 Jul 1889.

    2. [S189] Badlam (1891), Badlam, Alexander, (San Francisco, Calif.: Published for the Author, 1891) (Reliability: 2).