Bachelder, Perez Mann (sold)
Perez Mann Bachelder (December 31, 1818 - January 25, 1873) was an early American photographer active in the Mid 19th century. Perez was born in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. Little is known of his early life, but by the 1850s, he was an itinerant photographer in California capturing the Gold Rush. In 1854, following the gold rushes, he moved to Victoria, Australia, opening a daguerreotype saloon in Melbourne (57 Collings Street East). He quickly became the most prominent photographer in Melbourne, operating in partnership with Daniel O'Neill as 'Bachelder and O'Neill's Daguerreotype and Collondian Portrait Rooms'. After considerable success in the Outback, he returned to Boston in 1860, where he opened a study with James Wallace Black (1825 - 1896). The firm lasted until 1866, after which it was sold to F. A. Dunn, J. Botterill, and J. N. Wilson. Bachelder himself moved to San Francisco, where he died in 1873. The firm bearing his name persisted until 1895 under W. J. Stubbs.
One of the first lithograph views produced from a photograph.
City of Worcester Mass.
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This is a rare, unusual, and significant 1864 chromolithograph bird's-eye view of Worcester, Massachusetts. The view is unique as being one of the first bird's-views produced from a photograph, as well as a pioneering example of balloon-based aerial photography - the image being taken by 'Black and Bachelder,' the photographers responsible for the first balloon photographs in the United States. It is worth noting that the 'Bachelder' attributed is not the more famous viewmaker John Badger Bachelder, but rather the important photographer Perez Mann Bachelder. (more details)