Booen, J.O.^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]}

• Name	Booen, J.O.
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	Oct 1895	Chilliwack, B.C.
  	Address: Wellington Ave. Chilliwack, BC Canada
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1895-1897	Chilliwack, B.C.
  Person ID	I429	Camera Workers | B, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2017

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial (itinerant). BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He arrived in Chilliwack from Whatcom (Bellingham, WA) in 1895 and is known to have travelled to other B.C. communities. In Aug 1896 he was reported to be leaving for the Kootenay region. His studio portraits are identifiable by his backdrops: a Queen Anne style house in a pastoral setting and a blossoming tree. IDENTIFYING MARKS: "J.O. Booen, Chilliwack, B.C."; "Booen, Chilliwack"; "Olympic Studio, Snohomish, Wash."

  
  

• Sources

  [S56] COLLECTION: BCHM. 320 portrait prints [S693] Chilliwack Progress, 23 Oct 1895. [S693] Chilliwack Progress, 06 Nov 1895. [S693] Chilliwack Progress, 13 Nov 1895. [S693] Chilliwack Progress, 11 Dec 1895. [S693] Chilliwack Progress, 01 Apr 1896. [S693] Chilliwack Progress, 06 May 1896. [S693] Chilliwack Progress, 20 May 1896. [S693] Chilliwack Progress, 05 Aug 1896. [S692] Correspondence, David Mattison. Chilliwack Archives to Mattison, 6 Sep 1991 [S89] MemoryBC, (Archives Association of BC). J.O. Booen fonds (CHI-1391)