July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Civil War carte de visite of a Naval Officer in full standing pose, in uniform, with Bradley & Rulofson photographers imprint, verso signed “Capt. M. Anderson Barque Palmetto Nov 9, 1865.” Some loss to verso of card mount does not affect image, else about VG. Henry William Bradley (1813–1891) was an American photographer. He and his partner William Rulofson were active in San Francisco, California and were responsible for photographs of many notable Californians Bradley was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and spent his youth in New Orleans, Louisiana. He opened his San Francisco studio in February 1850, taking on Rulofson as a partner in 1860, and the firm of Bradley & Rulofson was recognized as the leading photographic establishment on the West Coast, winning first prize at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. Bradley retired from his business in 1878. He died in his home in Alameda in 1891.
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