__NOTOC__ William Henry Getchell (1829–1910) was a photographer in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.Photo-Era Magazine, November 1910; p.266 He was born in Hallowell, Maine, on March 10, 1829.Densmore. Hand-book of Hartwell genealogy, 1636-1887. 1887. He lived in Peoria, Illinois, and then moved to Boston. In 1857 he married Sarah Hartwell; they had one child—Frederick Getchell (b. 1858).Hapgood. The Hapgood family: descendants of Shadrach, 1656-1898. 1898. In the early 1860s Getchell worked in Boston with George M. Silsbee and John G. Case as Silsbee, Case & Co.;Boston Directory. 1861 and again with Case as Case & Getchell, ca.1862-1864.Gutman. John Wilkes Booth himself. Dover, Mass: Hired Hand Press, 1979. He later ran a solo photography studio in the 1860s and 1870s. As of 1898 he lived in Dorchester. He died in Boston in August, 1910.
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Silsbee, Case & Co. Flickr. Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Silsbee, Case & Co., ca.1863 Flickr. Portrait of the wife of George W. Holdrege, by Silsbee, Case & Co. Harvard University, works by Silsbee, Case & Co. Massachusetts Historical Society, works by Silsbee, Case & Co. Case & Getchell (1862–1864) New York Public Library. John Lothrop Motley New York Public Library. John Howard Payne Flickr. Portrait of an unidentified woman, ca.1864 Flickr. Portrait of an unidentified man Flickr. Portrait of a soldier W.H. Getchell Flickr. Rose, Twin Sister of Spirit Child, Lily - Carte de Visite - 1869 Flickr. Spirit Drawing of Lily "Sunbeam" - Carte de Visite - 1869