Josiah Johnson Hawes Explained

Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808 - 1901) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts. He and Albert Southworth established the photography studio of Southworth & Hawes, which produced numerous portraits of exceptional quality in the 1840s - 1860s.^[1]

Biography

J.J. Hawes was born in Wayland, Massachusetts in 1808. He began his career as a portrait painter. He then studied photography in Boston with Francis Fauvel-Gouraud.^[2]

In 1843 Hawes and Southworth formed the partnership of Southworth & Hawes, with studios on Tremont Row, in Boston's Scollay Square. The studio produced daguerreotype portraits of many notables, including Lemuel Shaw, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Daniel Webster, and others.^[3] The studio rooms overlooked "a fine orchard, belonging to the Gardiner Greene estate. From these windows, facing Scollay Sq., we looked on the church and gardens of Brattle Street"^[4]

In 1849 Hawes married Nancy Niles Southworth (Albert’s sister). They had three children: Alice, Marion and Edward.^[5]

After the partnership with Southworth dissolved in 1863, Hawes continued as a photographer on Tremont Row for several decades, through the 1890s.^[6] In his later years he was known as the "oldest working photographer in this country."^[7]

Further reading

• Treasures in Pictures; Many Famous Photographs Made by the Veteran Josiah Johnson Hawes. Boston Daily Globe, Feb 21, 1898. p. 9.
• Josiah Johnson Hawes, dies in his ninety-fourth year. Boston Transcript, Aug.9, 1901.
• Oldest Photographer Dead; He Was Josiah Johnson Hawes, Friend of Dickens, Rufus Choate, and Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. New York Times, Aug 10, 1901. p. 7.
• The past and present . Photo-Era Magazine . 1901 . Abel. Juan C.. Cummings. Thomas Harrison. French. Wilfred A.. Beardsley. A. H..
• Book: I.N. Phelps Stokes . The Hawes-Stokes collection of American daguerreotypes by Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes . New York . Metropolitan Museum of Art . 1939 .
• Book: Rachel Johnston Homer . The legacy of Josiah Johnson Hawes; 19th century photographs of Boston . Barre, Mass. . Barre Publishers . 1972 .
• Book: C. Moore . Two partners in Boston: the careers and Daguerreian artistry of Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes . University of Michigan . 1975 .

External links

• WorldCat. Hawes, Josiah Johnson 1808-1901
• Boston Public Library on Flickr. Josiah Johnson Hawes Photographs
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, works by J.J. Hawes
• Boston Athenaeum, works by J.J. Hawes.
• George Eastman House, on Flickr, works by Southworth & Hawes
• International Center of Photography, 2005 exhibition of Southworth & Hawes
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, works by J.J. Hawes

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes . International Center of Photography . George Eastman House . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090914011511/http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/southworth_hawes/pages/biographies.html . 2009-09-14 .
2. Oldest Photographer Dead. New York Times, Aug 10, 1901, p.7.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=goUBAAAAYAAJ Boston Almanac
4. Hawes, quoted in: Treasures in Pictures. Boston Daily Globe, Feb 21, 1898. p.9.
5. Book: B. Newhall . Daguerreotype in America . 1968 . 9780486233222 . registration .
6. [Boston Directory]
7. Boston Transcript, 1898.