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John Fillis Jarvis

English, 1849 - 1931

BiographyJohn Fillis Jarvis, also known as J. F. Jarvis, (1849, Melksham, England - 1931, Washington, D.C.) was a photographer in Washington D.C. He experimented with stereography and issued a set of stereoscopic images of White House. In the 1880s he collaborated with Elmer and Bert Underwood, who built a company Underwood & Underwood that became a national distributor of stereoviews. Jarvis produced for Underwood brothers multiple stereoscopic images of the United States, Mexico, Algeria, India, and Palestine. Reference: Heil, Douglas. The Art of Stereography: Rediscovering Vintage Three-Dimensional Images. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017, p. 70.
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/6736/john-f-jarvis-american-born-1850-active-washington-dc/ EM 8/29/2019

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