Zion Photographic Studio^[1]

• Name	Zion Photographic Studio
  Gender	Unknown
  Business Address/Year	190-?	Zion City, IL
  	Address: Shiloh Boulevard near Zion City Bank Zion, IL USA
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	190-	BC
  Person ID	I2354	Camera Workers | Z, vol. 2, 1901-1950
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2023

  
  

• Photos

  Zion Photographic Studio stereo, 190-. The photograph depicts the stern of the Empress of China at dock in Vancouver, BC. The ship was launched in the summer 1891 and reached Vancouver in the fall 1891. The ship ran aground in Japan in 1911 and was scrapped the following year.

  
  

  Documents

  Zion Photographic Studio ad, Zion Banner, 18 Dec 1901, p. 17.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Stereo publisher. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This firm issued a "Views in British Columbia" series. While based in "Lion City, IL", this city is not listed in William D. Barge and Norman W. Caldwell's "Illinois Place-Names", Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Oct 1936), p. 189-311, nor in Henry Gannett's The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (2nd ed., 1905). There is a Zion City in Illinois, a utopian theocratic community founded in 1901 by a single individual, and there was a Zion Photographic Studio there. FORMATS: Stereographs. IDENTIFYING MARKS: name on print mount front; while it may appear to be "Lion City", it is actually "Zion City".

  
  

• Sources

  [S1201] Complied by T. K. Treadwell and William C. Darrah; updated by Wolfgang Sell, Treadwell and Darrah (1994b), (National Stereoscopic Association, 1994, updated 28 Nov 2003), 444. Listed in error as Lion City Photographic Studio.