Larss, Per Edward^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]}

1863 - 1941  (78 years)

• Name	Larss, Per Edward
  	VARIANT: Larson, Per Edward (real name); Larss, P.E.; Sarss, P.E.
  Birth	25 Mar 1863	Tjarby, Halland County, Sweden
  Gender	Male
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1883-1889	Minnesota
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1891	Washington; Oregon; California
  	Itinerant
  Business Address/Year	1895	Nanaimo, BC
  	Address: Commercial St. Nanaimo, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1895	Nanaimo, BC
  	Address: Church St. Nanaimo, BC Canada
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1892-1896	Nanaimo, BC
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1898	Washington
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1898-1904	Alaska
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1904-1908	Nevada
  Death	22 Sep 1941	Los Angeles County, CA
  Association	Larss and Pierce (Relationship: Partner)
  Association	Adams and Pierce (Relationship: Employee)
  Association	Larss and Duclos (Relationship: Partner)
  Association	Hegg and Larss (Relationship: Partner)
  Association	Hegg and Company (Relationship: Employee; Manager)
  Person ID	I725	Camera Workers | L, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2023

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Claes Jacobson, a Swedish photohistorian, through information from Larss' biographer Ronald T. Bailey, supplied the following chronological summary of Larss/Larson's photographic career. He lived and worked in Minnesota (1883-1889) as a photographer, then moved to Denver where he worked as a mechanic for the Denver City Railway Company (1890). An itinerant period during the next year took Larss to three states in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon and California). In 1892 he moved to Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, where he was a partner with W.C. Pierce as Larss and Pierce. The studio was closed in 1896 and Larss returned to Denver where he remained until 1898. He moved to Washington where he worked for Adams and Pierce and for a brother of E.A. Hegg in New Whatcom (Bellingham). On 20 Mar 1898 Larss then sailed on the Utopia to Skagway, AK, where he worked with E.A. Hegg and his brother Pete L. Hegg as Hegg and Larss (1898-1899). 1 On Apr 1899 Larss formed a new partnership with J.E.N. Duclos as Larss and Duclos which lasted until 1904. Larss was also active in mining and prospecting. He was married in 1904, the year he left Alaska; he and his Swedish wife moved to Nevada in 1905 where Larss continued as a photographer and ran a stationery shop. He worked under the name of P.E. Larson during this time. He retired from photography in 1908 and moved to Oregon where he ran a hotel. In 1920 he settled in San Pedro, California, and remained in the state until his death. His death is recorded in the California Deaths Database under the name Per Edward Larson. According to Ronald T. Bailey, Larss had changed his name to Larson in 1904 when he married Hilda Johnson in Denver, CO.

  
  

• Sources

  [S358] Vitalsearch Company Worldewide, Vitalsearch Company, California Deaths DB (Web site), (Pleasanton, CA: Vitalsearch Company Worldewide, Inc.). 1940-2000, Death Index Summary [S34] WIL95, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1895). [S692] Correspondence, David Mattison. Letter, Claes Jacobson to Mattison, 28 Nov 1984. [S692] Correspondence, David Mattison. Letter, Ronald T. Bailey to Mattison, 14 Sep 1985. [S190] Bailey, Ronald T., Bailey (1998), (Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1998). [S1182] Sally Zanjani, Zanjani (1995), (Mining History Association, 1995). [S813] Minnesota Historical Society, Directory of Minnesota Photographers (Web site).