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Of the approximately three thousand photographers active in New Jersey before 1900, more than two hundred and fifty lived or worked in Mercer County.
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Gary D. Saretzky will present an illustrated talk profiling some of these local pioneers, including but not limited to Royal Hill Rose, founder of the three-generation firm that documented all aspects of life in Princeton, and Pach Brothers, which had the contract to photograph Princeton University classes from 1878 to 1909.
Presenter: Gary D. Saretzky, archivist, educator, and photographer, worked as an archivist for more than fifty years at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Educational Testing Service, and the Monmouth County Archives. Saretzky also taught the history of photography at Mercer County Community College, 1977-2012, and served as coordinator of the Public History Internship Program for the Rutgers University History Department, 1994-2016. He has published more than 100 articles and reviews on the history of photography, photographic conservation, and other topics, including “Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers,” in the journal, New Jersey History, Fall/Winter 2004, a revised version of which is available at http://saretzky.com .
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