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Name |
Hartmann, Joseph |
Born |
1867 |
Birthplace |
Germany (near Munich) |
Places of residence |
Germany Italy Ridgefield, CT |
Education |
Trained as a photographic technician in Murano, Italy (then a preminent photographic center) |
Notes |
Hartmann camne to the US in 1888, arriving in Ridgefield in the early 1890s. He set up his studio first at 381-83 Main St, then from 1896 until he retired in 1938 in the Bedient Building on the top floor of the tower. Hartmann was one of the first to discover and spread the alarm in the great fire of 1895 which devastated Main St. Ridgefield. In 1950, daughter Elsa donated the collection of Hartmann's glass negatives to The Ridgefield Press. Many were turned into prints that appeared in The Ridgefield Press, especially in the long-running "Old Ridgefield" series that attempted to get many identified. The Press was assisted by The Hartmann Society, formed in the early 1980s by Barbara Wardenburg and others to both preserve and identify the pictures. The Press in 1990 donated the collection to the Keeler Tavern Museum where they remain. Many of Hartmann’s pictures were used in the 1999 book, "Images of America: Ridgefield," produced by the Ridgefield Archives Committee, a sort of successor of the Hartmann Society that has melded into the Ridgefield Historical Society. |
Occupation |
Photographer One of Ridgefield's first photographers, Hartmann's work provides a 40 year pictorial record of life in Ridgefield from the turn of the century into modern times. |
Spouse |
Amalie L. Diedrich |
Children |
Elsa Hartmann, daughter two additional children |
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