Camera Workers, 1858-1950

The British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon Photographic Directory, 1858-1950

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Bodurtha, Charles Hall[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Male 1844 - 1915  (71 years)

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  • Name Bodurtha, Charles Hall 
    • VARIANT NAME: Bo Durtha; BoDurtha, C.H.; BoDurtha, Charles Hall.
    Birth 11 Jan 1844  Birkshire County, MS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Business Address/Year 1863-1864?  Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Learned photography in Hartford and then opened a studio for a short time in Bridgeport. 
    Business Address/Year 1869?-1870?  Columbus, OH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Moved here after working on HMS Zealous and possibly another HMS vessel for 16 months. 
    Business Address/Year 1864?-1866?  Venezuela Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Went to Venezuela, South America, from Bridgeport, CT 
    Marriage 21 Oct 1873  St. Louis, MO Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Bride: Amy H. Simmons 
    Business Address/Year 1870-1915  Delaware, OH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Moved to Delaware from Columbus, OH. 
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) Jul 1867?-1869?  Esquimalt, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Lived on board HMS Zealous and worked as a sketch artist and photographer. 
    Death 26 Sep 1915  Delaware, OH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Oak Grove Cemetery, Delaware, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Person ID I411  Camera Workers | B, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2022 

  • Photos
    C.H. Bodurtha IDs, Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs, [Jock Taylor's Travels] (album)    		C.H. Bodurtha IDs, Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs, [Jock Taylor's Travels] (album)

    Documents
    C.H. Bodurtha's entry, <i>History of Delaware County and Ohio</i> (1880), p. 616.    		C.H. Bodurtha's entry, History of Delaware County and Ohio (1880), p. 616.

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Institutional (visit).
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: An American citizen, according to the Web site Cabinet Card Photographers, he moved from Delaware County, OH, around 1864 to Venezula to work as a photographer. He then obtained passage about 1866 on British ships and worked as a photographer and sketch artist for 16 months. He returned to Ohio around 1868.
      The verso of two carte de visite portraits of Mrs. T.S. Dobbin (nee Dorothea McKenzie) at the BC Archives identified this man as a photographer aboard HMS Zealous which was based in Esquimalt during the mid to late 1860s. As a civilian he was not listed in the 1869 Navy List for this vessel.
      According to Wikipedia HMS Zealous arrived in Esquimalt in "July 1867...; she remained moored there, at the end of a telegraph link with Britain, until April 1869. During this time her only sea service was for gunnery practice on two days every quarter. In January 1870 she picked up a fresh crew at Panama brought out by the two-decker HMS Revenge. After six years on station she was relieved by Revenge as flagship and started for home. ... She was refitted in Plymouth in April 1873...."
      In June 1870 the Zealous sailed to the Fraser River to have barnacles removed from her hull, an undertaking which provided a business opportunity as a tourist attraction (Colonist, 25 Jun 1870, p. 3). The Zealous left the river in the company of HMS Boxer for Victoria on 29 June 1870 (Colonist, 28 Jun 1870, p. 3).
    • IDENTIFYING MARKS: "Bodurtha, Photographer, H.M. Ship 'Zealous'" on verso of cartes-de-visite. Field photographs surface may be marked "Bodurtha Photo" (UBC, Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs, [Jock Taylor's Travels]).

  • Sources 
    1. [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA.
      Photo IDs HP006409 (G-09957) and HP006412 (G-09960).

    2. [S947] Open Collections (UBC Library and Archives) (Web site).
      Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs: [Jock Taylor's Travels] (album). Digital facsimile URL (accessed 22 Jun 2022): https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0053467

    3. [S685] Navy List.
      Bodurtha is not listed as an officer on HMS Zealous in the 1869 volumes held by the BC Archives.

    4. [S1167] Baskin (1880), (Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., 1880), 616.
      See illustration entry.

    5. [S1166] Mary Sayre Haverstock, comp. and ed., et al, Haverstock (2000), (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2000), 96-97.
      Bodurtha, Charles H.

    6. [S1165] Cabinet Card Photographers (Web site).
      URL (accessed 21 Jun 2022): http://cabinetcardphotographers.blogspot.com/2018/08/charles-hall-bodurtha.html

    7. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site).
      Charles Hall Bodurtha
      URL (accessed 22 Jun 2022): https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/family-tree/person/tree/154010199/person/352036598201/facts

    8. [S832] Find a Grave (Web site).
      URL (accessed 22 Jun 2022): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84763390/charles-hall-bodurtha