Amory Nelson Hardy

Amory Nelson Hardy or A.N. Hardy (1835–1911) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1][2] Portrait subjects included US president Chester A. Arthur, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, politician James G. Blaine, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison,[3] doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writer Julia Ward Howe, labor activist Florence Kelley, suffragist Mary Livermore, philanthropist Isabella Somerset, and suffragist Frances Willard.[4] He also made "electric-light portraits" of roller skaters in 1883.[5]

Portrait of A.N. Hardy

Biography

Hardy was born in Carmel, Maine, son of schoolteacher Benjamin Hardy. He married Angeline S. Davis in 1857 and had three children: Bertha, Grace, and William. As a young man he started a photography business in Lewiston, Maine, before moving to Boston[4] where he kept a studio on Winter Street (c. 1873–1878),[6] Washington Street (c. 1868 and c. 1879–1887),[7] Temple Place, and Tremont Street. He belonged to the National Photographic Association of the United States, the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association,[8] and, outside of his professional life, the Tremont Temple congregation.[4] In 1880 he exhibited photos at the first convention of the Photographers Association of America in Chicago.[9] Hardy worked in Boston during a time when a number of other professional photographers kept studios in the downtown area, including Allen & Rowell, James Wallace Black, Elmer Chickering, William H. Getchell, J.J. Hawes, E.F. Ritz, Antoine Sonrel, and John Adams Whipple.[10]

Collections

Examples of Hardy's work are in the collections of the following institutions:

References
  1. "Death of A.N. Hardy". Photo-Era. 26 (4). 1911. OCLC 317760743.
  2. Somerville, Arlington and Belmont directory for 1869-70. Boston: Greenough, Jones & Co., 1869
  3. Rollin H. Neale (1878), Letter to William Lloyd Garrison – via Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
  4. Boston Globe 1911.
  5. Edward L. Wilson, ed. (1883). "Electric-Light Pictures". Philadelphia Photographer. 20 (236): 255. Roller-Skate Carnival
  6. Boston Directory, 1873
  7. Around 1868 Hardy's was at no.202 Washington St.; around 1879 it was at no.493 Washington St. cf. Boston Directory, 1868; Boston Business Directory, 1879; Boston Almanac, 1887
  8. "Members' Names", Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1879
  9. "Chicago Convention of the P. A. of A." Photographic Times. New York: 201–206. 1880.
  10. "Photographers", Boston Directory, 1888, p. 1502; "Photographers", Boston Directory, 1896, p. 1806
  11. Boston Athenaeum Online Catalog, retrieved August 1, 2017
  12. "Dennis Historical Society Archive". Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  13. "Visual Information Access". Harvard University. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  14. "Artist: A.N. Hardy". New York: International Center of Photography. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
  15. "Photographers in The New York Public Library's Photography Collection" (PDF). New York Public Library. 2010.
  16. "James G. Blaine, 1884 Republican presidential candidate". Retrieved August 1, 2017 – via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
  17. "Mary Ashton Rice Livermore", National Portrait Gallery Collection, Smithsonian, retrieved July 11, 2017

Bibliography

Images
  • Portrait by A.N. Hardy, 1872
  • Advertisement for Hardy, 1879
  • U.S. President Chester A. Arthur at Daniel Webster house, Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1882, by A.N. Hardy
  • Rollerskating event at Mechanics Hall, Boston, 1883, by Hardy
  • Portrait by Hardy, 19th century
  • Logo of Hardy, 19th century
  • Portrait of Florence Kelley, by A.N. Hardy
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