This presentation features several notable examples of New Jersey’s Civil War Era photographers. The Civil War boosted the photographic trade in New Jersey as both soldiers and families demanded more images of loved ones. Numerous new photo galleries opened to meet the demand. Some New Jersey photographers operated elsewhere during the war, including in the South. Other photographers active at the war front settled in the state after the war. And some New Jersey soldiers returned home and only then began photography careers.
About the speaker:
Gary D. Saretzky - archivist, educator, and photographer, was Archivist of Monmouth County (1994-2019) and Coordinator, Internship Programs, Rutgers-New Brunswick History Department (1994-2016). Saretzky taught the history of photography course at Mercer County Community College from 1977 to 2012 and has been researching 19th century New Jersey photographers for more than thirty years. He has published more than 100 articles, reviews, and exhibition catalogs on conservation of library materials, history of photography, and New Jersey history and has lectured regularly throughout the State of New Jersey. His website is Saretzky Online, http://saretzky.com
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The John F. Peto Studio Museum received funding this year from a grant administered by the Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission from funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State.
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