Amory Nelson Hardy
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Amory Nelson Hardy or A.N. Hardy (July 17, 1834, or 1835 – February 24, 1911) was American photographer active in Boston, Massachusetts in the 19th century.{{cite journal |title=Death of A.N. Hardy |journal= Photo-Era |oclc=317760743 |volume=26 |number=4 |year= 1911 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tRRLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA212 }}[https://books.google.com/books?id=HfYCAAAAYAAJ Somerville, Arlington and Belmont directory for 1869-70]. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co., 1869{{cite web | url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10826-912490/amory-n-hardy-in-famous-people-throughout-history?tr_id=m_tufejwy5en_fx0yl79kqa | title=Amory N. Hardy - Famous People Throughout History }} Portrait subjects included US president Chester A. Arthur, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, politician James G. Blaine, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison,{{citation |author=Rollin H. Neale |author-link=First Baptist Church (Boston, Massachusetts) |title=Letter to William Lloyd Garrison |year= 1878 |url=https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900q691j |via=Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library }} doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writer Julia Ward Howe, labor activist Florence Kelley, suffragist Mary Livermore, philanthropist Isabella Somerset, and suffragist Frances Willard.{{sfn|Boston Globe|1911}} He also made "electric-light portraits" of roller skaters in 1883.{{cite journal |title=Electric-Light Pictures |journal=Philadelphia Photographer |url= https://archive.org/stream/philadelphiaphot1883phil#page/n670/mode/1up |year= 1883 |volume= 20 |number =236 |page=255 |editor= Edward L. Wilson |editor-link= Edward Livingston Wilson |quote=Roller-Skate Carnival }}
Biography
Hardy was born in Carmel, Maine, son of schoolteacher Benjamin Hardy. He married Angeline S. Davis in 1857 and had three children: Bertha, Grace, and William. As a young man he started a photography business in Lewiston, Maine, before moving to Boston{{sfn|Boston Globe|1911}} where he kept a studio on Winter Street (c. 1873–1878),Boston Directory, 1873 Washington Street (c. 1868 and c. 1879–1887),Around 1868 Hardy's was at no.202 Washington St.; around 1879 it was at no.493 Washington St. cf. Boston Directory, 1868; Boston Business Directory, 1879; Boston Almanac, 1887 Temple Place, and Tremont Street. He belonged to the National Photographic Association of the United States, the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association,{{citation |title=Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association |year= 1879 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dEMDAAAAYAAJ |chapter= Members' Names }} and, outside of his professional life, the Tremont Temple congregation.{{sfn|Boston Globe|1911}} In 1880 he exhibited photos at the first convention of the Photographers Association of America in Chicago.{{cite journal |title=Chicago Convention of the P. A. of A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNksAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA202 |journal=Photographic Times |location=New York |year=1880 |pages=201–206 }} Hardy worked in Boston during a time when a number of other professional photographers kept studios in the downtown area, including Allen & Rowell, James Wallace Black, Elmer Chickering, William H. Getchell, J.J. Hawes, E.F. Ritz, Antoine Sonrel, and John Adams Whipple.{{citation |title=Boston Directory |year=1888 |chapter=Photographers |page=1502 }}; {{citation |title=Boston Directory |year=1896 |chapter=Photographers |page=1806 }}
Collections
File:Lysander Spooner by Hardy - With card.jpg held by the University of Michigan]]
Examples of Hardy's work are in the collections of the following institutions:
- Boston Athenaeum{{citation |title=Boston Athenaeum Online Catalog |year = 1879|url=https://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=432403 |accessdate= August 1, 2017 }}
- Boston Public Library
- Dennis Historical Society, Dennis, Massachusetts{{cite web |url= http://archive.dennishistsoc.org/discover |title=Dennis Historical Society Archive |accessdate= August 1, 2017 }}
- Harvard University{{cite web |title=Visual Information Access |publisher=Harvard University |url=http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/advancedsearch?_collection=via |accessdate=August 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509112731/http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/advancedsearch?_collection=via |archive-date=May 9, 2013 |url-status=dead }}
- Hingham Historical Society, Hingham, Massachusetts
- Historic New England
- International Center of Photography{{cite web |url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/a-n-hardy?all/all/all/all/0 |title=Artist: A.N. Hardy |date=March 2, 2016 |publisher= International Center of Photography|location=New York |accessdate= August 1, 2017 }}
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- New York Public Library{{cite web |url=https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/Photographers_in_The_New_York_Public_Library_April_16_2010.pdf |title=Photographers in The New York Public Library's Photography Collection |year=2010 |publisher=New York Public Library }}
- US Library of Congress{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001697079/ |title= James G. Blaine, 1884 Republican presidential candidate |year= 1884 |via=Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division |accessdate= August 1, 2017 }}
- US National Portrait Gallery{{citation |url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.81.71 |title=Mary Ashton Rice Livermore |work=National Portrait Gallery Collection |publisher=Smithsonian |accessdate= July 11, 2017 }}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite journal |location=New York |journal=Photographic Times and American Photographer |title=Inside View of a Boston Photographic Studio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9yhLAAAAYAAJ |year=1882 |volume=12 |number=135 }} (About Hardy)
- {{cite book |title=Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Boston |chapter=A.N. Hardy |year= 1885 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vxxEAQAAMAAJ |page=286 }}
- {{citation |title= Amory N. Hardy Dead; Prominent as a Photographer for 40 Years in Boston and Won Many Medals for His Work |work=Boston Daily Globe |date=February 26, 1911 |ref= {{harvid|Boston Globe|1911}}
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External links
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- {{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/np-hardy,%20a%20n |work=WorldCat |publisher=OCLC |title= A. N. Hardy }}
- [https://dp.la/search?utf8=✓&q=%22a+n+hardy%22 Items related to Hardy] via Digital Public Library of America
- {{cite web |url=http://phsne.org/members/RonPolito/BostonPhotographers |editor=Ron Polito |title=Boston Photographers Cited in 19th Century American Photographic Journals: A Bibliographic Database |via=Photographic Historical Society of New England |access-date=May 5, 2015 |archive-date=September 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912150722/http://phsne.org/members/RonPolito/BostonPhotographers |url-status=dead }} (includes info related to A.N. Hardy)
- Flickr. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/34795644@N05/5446116837/ Portrait of Clara Batchelder] by Hardy, 202 Washington St., Boston, MA.
- Boston Public Library. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5736770895/ Portrait] by Hardy. No. 493 Washington Street, artist photographer, Boston, Mass.
Images
Image:1872 by A N Hardy Boston Photographic World v2 no14.png|Portrait by A.N. Hardy, 1872
Image:1879 Hardy photographer advert 493 Washington Street in Boston.png|Advertisement for Hardy, 1879
Image:1882 ChesterArthur WebsterMansion MarshfieldMA Oct12 byANHardy.png|U.S. President Chester A. Arthur at Daniel Webster house, Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1882, by A.N. Hardy
File:1883 Rollerskate Carnival in Boston USA.jpg|Rollerskating event at Mechanics Hall, Boston, 1883, by Hardy
File:Portrait of bespectacled man by AN Hardy International Center of Photography.jpg|Portrait by Hardy, 19th century
Image:Hardy logo photographer 493 Washington Street in Boston NYPL 1158560B.jpg|Logo of Hardy, 19th century
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Category:Photographers from Massachusetts
Category:American portrait photographers
Category:People from Somerville, Massachusetts