Draft:Silas Selleck

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Silas Wright Selleck (1828-1885) was an American businessman and photographer. He was the proprietor of the Bay View Park Hotel in San Francisco (Bayview Park, San Francisco). Yale University has a collection of his work in their archives.{{Cite web|url=https://archives.yale.edu/agents/people/90395|title=Selleck, Silas Wright, approximately 1828-1885 | Archives at Yale|website=archives.yale.edu}} He was associated with San Francisco.{{Cite web|url=https://staff.digitalcollections.ohs.org/selleck-silas-wright-1828-1885|title=Selleck, Silas Wright, 1828-1885 - OHS Digital Collections|website=staff.digitalcollections.ohs.org}} His work includes daguerreotypes and ambrotypes.

He assisted photographer Henry Sherman Beals in Sacramento.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nne4L9h27RsC&q=+Silas+wright+selleck&pg=PA90|title=Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865|first1=Peter E.|last1=Palmquist|first2=Thomas R.|last2=Kailbourn|date=April 8, 2000|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-3883-5 |via=Google Books}} After a fire in Sacramento he partnered with George Howard Johnson in Sam Francsico.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nne4L9h27RsC&q=+Silas+selleck&pg=PA90|title=Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865|first1=Peter E.|last1=Palmquist|first2=Thomas R.|last2=Kailbourn|date=April 8, 2000|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-3883-5 |via=Google Books}}

He had a photographic gallery at 415 Montgomery Street in San Francisco called the Cosmopolitan Gallery.{{cite web | url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Schulenburg_Photographic_Collection_–_Carte_de_Visite_–_Silas_Selleck-1839.jpg | title=English: Jim Henrettie, Carte de Visite by Silas Selleck, San Francisco, California }}{{Cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Some_reminiscences_of_a_charter_member_(IA_somereminiscence00storrich).pdf&page=21|title=Some reminiscences of a charter member|first=Story, George LeachMathews, Henry|last=E|via=Wikimedia Commons}}

In 1863, he photographed the chief of the California Geological Survey, Josiah Whitney. Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864 is an albumen silver print he took that is in the National Portrait Gallery.{{Cite web|url=https://garystockbridge617.getarchive.net/amp/topics/photographs+by+silas+selleck|title=11 Photographs By Silas Selleck Image: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search Engine Public Domain Search}|website=garystockbridge617.getarchive.net}}

His portraits include carte de visite.{{Cite web|url=https://staff.digitalcollections.ohs.org/silas-selleck-portrait-of-an-unidentified-man;dacs?sf_culture=ja|title=Silas Selleck portrait of an unidentified man - OHS Digital Collections|website=staff.digitalcollections.ohs.org}} Thomas Almond Ayers overpainted one of his photographs.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nne4L9h27RsC&dq=Bay+view+Park+hotel.San+Francisco+Silas+wright+selleck&pg=PA90|title=Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865|first1=Peter E.|last1=Palmquist|first2=Thomas R.|last2=Kailbourn|date=April 8, 2000|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-3883-5 |via=Google Books}}

He had a wife Sarah, a son, and two daughters.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nne4L9h27RsC&q=+selleck&pg=PA90 | title=Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865 | isbn=978-0-8047-3883-5 | last1=Palmquist | first1=Peter E. | last2=Kailbourn | first2=Thomas R. | date=2000 | publisher=Stanford University Press }}

Frank Schulenburg Photographic Collection – Carte de Visite – Silas Selleck-6839.jpg|Unidentified woman

Frank Schulenburg Photographic Collection – Carte de Visite – Silas Selleck-1810.jpg|Unidentified woman

Photograph of a young boy and a dog.jpg|A boy and his dog

Bishop Kip.jpg|Bishop William Ingraham Kip

Frank Schulenburg Photographic Collection – Carte de Visite – Silas Selleck-1812.jpg|Unidentified man

Frank Schulenburg Photographic Collection – Carte de Visite – Silas Selleck-5019.jpg|

Josiah whitney.jpg|Josiah Whitney