| LC control no. | n 86128529 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Eickemeyer, Rudolf, Jr., 1862-1932 |
| Variant(s) | Eickemeyer, Rudolf, 1862-1932 Eickemeyer, Rudolph, Jr., 1862-1932 |
| Other standard no. | 65495403 0000000067080149 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 18620807 |
| Death date | 19320425 |
| Place of birth | Yonkers (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Yonkers (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Photography Portrait photography Photography, Artistic Illustration of books |
| Affiliation | Yonkers Camera Club Linked Ring Salon Club of America Camera Club of New York |
| Profession or occupation | Photographers Portrait photographers Illustrators |
| Found in | Panzer, M. In my studio, c1986: t.p. (in title, Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.) LC data base, 5-11-87 (hdg.: Eickemeyer, Rudolf, 1862-1932) Peterson, Christian. "Approved biography for Rudolf Eickemeyer," Luminous Lint Web site, Apr. 2, 2015 (other names: Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr.; Rudolph Eickemeyer; Rudolph Eickemeyer Jr.; 1862, 7 August-1932, 24 April; born, died: Yonkers, N.Y.; father, a successful inventor of electrical machines; helped found the Yonkers Camera Club, 1889; in 1894, had a solo show at the Photographic Society of Philadelphia and his prints won top honors at both the seventh Joint Exhibition and England's Royal Photographic Society exhibition; elected to Linked Ring Brotherhood as one of the first Americans; became professional photographer in 1895, working at Carbon Studio, Campbell Art Company and the firm of Davis and Eickemeyer; non-resident member of Camera Club of New York; joined the Salon Club of America in 1904 and began exhibiting in their annual traveling American Photographic Salons; produced many genre and landscape photographs for book and magazine illustration) <http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/Rudolf__Eickemeyer/A/> Wikipedia, Apr. 2, 2015 (Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. (August 7, 1862-April 25, 1932); born and died in Yonkers, N.Y.; American pictorialist photographer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; father a noted inventor in fields of hatmaking and electical lighting; one of the first Americans to be admitted to the Linked Ring; famous for his portraits of high-society women; won 11 medals at the Yonkers Photo Club's Lantern Slide Exhibition in October 1890, and over the subsequent decade, he collected over a hundred medals at exhibitions and salons around the world; in 1895, joined the Carbon Studio in Manhattan; in 1900, joined the New York Camera Club, published his first book, Down south, and was appointed art manager of the Campbell Art Studio; in 1904, awarded the gold medal for photography at the St. Louis World's Fair; in 1905, purchased half of the photographic firm Davis and Stanford (renamed Davis and Eickemeyer), which operated out of a studio at 246 Fifth Avenue) OCLC, Apr. 2, 2015 (usage: Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.) |
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