| LC control no. | n 92075051 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ball, James Presley, 1825-1904 |
| Variant(s) | Ball, J. P. (James Presley), 1825-1904 |
| See also | Ball & Thomas |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1825 |
| Death date | 19040504 |
| Place of birth | Virginia |
| Affiliation | Ohio Mechanics' Institute Great Daguerrean Gallery of the West Amory Hall (Boston, Mass.) Afro-American Club (Mont.) Globe Photo Studio (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Profession or occupation | Daguerreotypists Photographers Businesspeople |
| Found in | J.P. Ball, daguerrean and studio photographer, 1992: CIP galley (James P. Ball; James Presley Ball; b. in Virginia in 1825; d. 1904 in Hawaii) Craig's daguerreian registry website, viewed May 19, 2004 (under entry for Ball, James Pressley: Sept., 1857, Ball & Thomas (A.S.) entered into partnership in the daguerreian business; in 1858-1859 Ball listed in the firm of Ball & Thomas at 120 West 4th St.; firm may have started in 1852 & lasted until about 1874, with a second gallery in Hamilton, Ohio in 1866) African American National Biography, accessed December 11, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Ball, James Presley; daguerreotypist, photographer, entrepreneur; born 1825 in Virginia, United States; his earliest known work (early1840s) was a half-plate daguerreotype of the Myers & Co. Confectioners in Cincinnati; opened his first successful studio in Cincinnati (1851); his work was included in the Ohio Mechanics Institute Annual Exhibitions in Cincinnati and Boston's Amory Hall; opened the Great Daguerrean Gallery of the West (1854); was an ardent abolitionist; commissioned a team of unknown African American artists to paint an enormous, 2,400-square-yard panorama, Ball's Splendid Mammoth Pictorial Tour of the United States Comprising Views of the African Slave Trade (1855); co-owned a gallery with another African American photographer, Robert James Harlan (1856); had a real estate business in Vidalia, Louisiana (1880-1889); was the official photographer for a celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in September (1887); opened the Globe Photo Studio in Seattle and continued to practice commercial photography (1900); died 4 May 1904) |
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