Augustine H. Folsom (died 1926) or A.H. Folsom was a photographer in the Boston, Massachusetts-area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Boston Directory. 1873.Boston Almanac. 1888 Subjects included buildings in Massachusetts, Maine, and Georgia. Folsom showed photographic work in the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association exhibitions of 1874 and 1881.Catalogue of articles on display ... Faneuil and Quincy Halls, of the twelfth exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Boston, September and October, 1874. Boston: Rand, Avery, and Co., printers, 1874. Google booksPhotographic Times, Jan. 1875. Google booksMechanic Association : fourteenth triennial exhibition. Open September and October. Huntington Ave. and West Newton St. Boston. Boston: Rand, Avery, 1881 He lived in Roxbury, c. 1870–1926.Boston Landmarks Commission. 1984 Survey and planning grant, part 1 - Parker Hill / Mission Hill project completion report. 1985 Works by Folsom reside in the collections of the Boston Public Library; Historic New England; Metropolitan Museum, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Georgia State Archives; and the American Antiquarian Society.
References
Image gallery Photographs by Augustine H. Folsom
Further reading
Illustrations by Folsom Ceremonies at the dedication of the Soldiers' monument: in Concord, Mass. Printed by B. Tolman, 1867. Includes illus. by Folsom. Google books George Augustus Wheeler. History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine: including the ancient settlement of Pentagöet. Bangor, Maine: Burr & Robinson, 1875. Includes illus. by Folsom. Google books Edwin Start. Penobscot Bay. New England Magazine, July 1896. Includes illus. by Folsom. Google books
About Folsom Old wet-plate photographer. Boston Daily Globe, June 18, 1905 E.B. Delabarre. Recent History of Dighton Rock. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Feb. 1919; p. 286+ Includes discussion of Folsom's photo of Dighton Rock. Google books
External links
WorldCat. Folsom, Augustine H. Boston Public Library on Flickr. Augustine H. Folsom Photographs Boston Latin Academy. Work by Folsom Concord Library. Work by Folsom Smithsonian. Work by Folsom in Warshaw Collection. Historic New England, 2003 Historic New England, 2002 Maine Memory. Westbrook Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute, 1868, by Folsom Maine Memory. http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=29225 Westbrook Seminary, 1868], by Folsom