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ID: 500036953
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Record Type: Person
Benecke, Robert (American and German photographer, 1835 - 1903)

Note: Born January 1835; died 3 November 1903. In 1856, Benecke emigrated to Missouri from Germany and opened a photography studio in Brunswick with a daguerreotypist, E. Meier, and a landscape painter named Keyte. Ca. 1860, before the Civil War, Benecke moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1864, Benecke moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, and opened a photographic studio with W. Hoelke. From 1871 to 1873, Benecke travelled down the Mississippi River to Texas producing photographs for Scribner's Magazine. In the 1880s, Benecke worked as a plant supervisor and chemist at Gustav Cramer's dry plate factory, Saint Louis, Missouri.

Names:
Benecke, Robert (preferred,V,index)
Robert Benecke (V,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
German

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer
daguerreotypist

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Stiege (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) (inhabited place)
Died:  Saint Louis (St. Louis Indep. City, Missouri, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1856 - ca. 1860  Brunswick (Chariton county, Missouri, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   ca. 1860 - ca. 1863  Knoxville (Knox county, Tennessee, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   1864 - 1903  Saint Louis (St. Louis Indep. City, Missouri, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   1871 - 1873  Texas (United States) (state)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Benecke, Robert (I)

Biographies:
(American and German photographer, 1835 - 1903) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American and German photographer; born Stiege (Germany), 1835; died Saint Louis (Missouri, United States), 1903) ..... [CCA]
(American (born Germany), 1835-1903) ..... [JPGM]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Benecke, Robert ........ [CCA Preferred, JPGM Preferred]
................................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
Robert Benecke ........ [CCA]
..............................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database

Subject: ........ [CCA, JPGM]
....................  Auer Index: Photographers Encyclopedia International. Hermance, Switzerland: Éditions Camera Obscura, 1992.
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Johnson, Nineteenth-Century Photography (1990)
....................  Sandweiss, Nineteenth-Century Photography in America (1991) 114
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
.......... Johnson, Nineteenth-Century Photography (1990)
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