Deloss Barnum
{{Short description|American photographer (1825 – 1873)}}
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| name = Isaac Deloss Barnum
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1825|11|1}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|New York City, U.S.}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1873|10|1|1825|11|1|mf=y}}
| occupation = Photographer
| spouse = Harriet Jane Waters
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Deloss Barnum (1825–1873) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts and New York, in the mid-19th century.
Early life
He lived and worked on his family's farm in Otisco, New York until at least 1850.
Career
Around 1857 he kept a daguerreotype studio on Winter Street in Boston; by 1858 he had moved to Commercial Street.Boston Directory. 1857, 1858. In 1856-1860 he lived in Roxbury.Boston Directory. 1856. He participated in the 1860 exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.9th exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association at Faneuil and Quincy Halls in the City of Boston, September 1860; p.122-123. He moved back to New York by 1865 and was a farmer and photographer in Cortland. He died there at the age of 47 on October 7, 1873.{{cite news |title= DIED. |work=The Cortland County Standard and Journal |date=October 7, 1873}}
During his career he was referred to by several variant names: D. Barnum; Deblois Barnum;Collection guide to the Longfellow National Historic Site House and Grounds Photograph Collection, 1855-1970. 2002; p.11. Delos Barnum;Boston Directory. 1856, 1857, 1858. DeLos Barnum;Collection guide to the Longfellow National Historic Site House and Grounds Photograph Collection, 1855-1970. 2002; p.11. and Deloss Barnum.WorldCat. [http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-no2009-169555 Barnum, Deloss]
References
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External links
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- [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org New York Public Library] has hundreds of stereoscope images by D. Barnum.
- [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s01728 Library of Congress]. Sunnyside, home of Washington Irving, NY.
- {{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=2015-05-05 |archive-date=2015-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912150722/http://phsne.org/members/RonPolito/BostonPhotographers |url-status=dead }} (includes info related to Barnum)
Image gallery
;Photographs by Deloss Barnum:
Image:AcademyOfMusic Brooklyn byDelossBarnum NYPL.jpeg|Academy of Music, Brooklyn
Image:FortTiconderoga byDelossBarnum NYPL.jpeg|Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga, New York
Image:BostonPublicGarden byDelossBarnum detail.png|Boston Public Garden, ca.1860
Image:HighRockSpring ca1865 byDelossBarnum ArtInstituteChicago.jpg|High Rock Spring, Saratoga Springs, New York, ca.1865
Image:1859 Webster statue StateHouse Boston byDelossBarnum detail.jpg|Inauguration of Daniel Webster statue, Massachusetts State House, Boston, September 17, 1859.
Image:FlowerGarden SouthernTierNY byDelossBarnum NYPL detail.jpg|Flower garden, Southern Tier, NY
Image:Forest pond, by Deloss Barnum.jpg|Mount Auburn Cemetery, Massachusetts
Image:OldFeatherStore ca1860 byDelosBarnum HistoricNewEngland.png|Old Feather Store, Boston, ca.1860
Image:1860 PrinceOfWales BostonCommon byDelossBarnum BPL 2351563990.jpg|Crowd waiting near Boston Common for the Prince of Wales, October 18, 1860
Image:PunchBowl ca1862 byDBarnum.jpg|Picnic
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Category:Pioneers of photography
Category:Photographers from New York (state)