William H. Getchell

William Henry Getchell (1829–1910) was a photographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.^[1] He was born in Hallowell, Maine, on March 10, 1829.^[2] He lived in Peoria, Illinois, and then moved to Boston. In 1857 he married Sarah Hapgood; they had one child—Frederick Getchell (b. 1858).^[3] In the early 1860s Getchell worked in Boston with George M. Silsbee and John G. Case as "Silsbee, Case & Co.;"^[4] and again with Case as "Case & Getchell," ca.1862-1864.^[5] He later ran a solo photography studio in the 1860s and 1870s. As of 1898 he lived in Dorchester. He died in Boston in August, 1910.

References

1. Photo-Era Magazine, November 1910; p.266
2. Densmore. Hand-book of Hartwell genealogy, 1636-1887. 1887.
3. Hapgood. The Hapgood family: descendants of Shadrach, 1656-1898. 1898.
4. Boston Directory. 1861
5. Gutman. John Wilkes Booth himself. Dover, Mass: Hired Hand Press, 1979.

Images

Case & Getchell

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  Portrait of Wendell Phillips, by Case & Getchell, ca.1863-1864

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  Portrait of Samuel Franklin Emmons, by Case & Getchell, ca.1860-1870

W.H. Getchell

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  Oriental Tea Co., Court St., Boston

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1861

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  Unidentified young woman, ca.1870s

External links

Silsbee, Case & Co.

• Flickr. Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Silsbee, Case & Co., ca.1863
• Flickr. Portrait of the wife of George W. Holdrege, by Silsbee, Case & Co.
• Harvard University, works by Silsbee, Case & Co.
• Massachusetts Historical Society, works by Silsbee, Case & Co.

Case & Getchell (1862–1864)

• New York Public Library. John Lothrop Motley
• New York Public Library. John Howard Payne
• Flickr. Portrait of an unidentified woman, ca.1864
• Flickr. Portrait of an unidentified man
• Flickr. Portrait of a soldier

W.H. Getchell

• Flickr. Rose, Twin Sister of Spirit Child, Lily - Carte de Visite - 1869
• Flickr. Spirit Drawing of Lily "Sunbeam" - Carte de Visite - 1869