A c. 1910 photograph by Charles Derby of Paul Smith and his sons with an electric rail car.
Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience.
Born: 1848
Died: 1910
Married:
Children:
Charles Derby was a photographer in Morrisonville, New York. He briefly owned a studio in Saranac Lake which he sold to Charles S.W. Baldwin in 1892. He made annual photographic visits to the Paul Smiths region
The Adirondack Museum has twenty-one glass plate negatives that he shot in the St. Regis Lakes region c. 1900.
Plattsburgh Sentinel, November 24, 1893
—Among the new things that we notice in our village is the photography tent of Charles Derby, of Morrisonville, who is at present located here.
Plattsburgh Sentinel, June 1, 1894
—Charles Derby & Son, photographers, paid a visit to the Adirondacks last week to make arrangements for the coming season, and will leave on Monday next for their summer campaign.
Plattsburgh Daily Press, February 21, 1896
The Charles Derby photo artist business appears under the heading Jan. 1, 1896 of Charles Derby & Son. Their work is now executed in the highest style of art.
Source:
- Sally E. Svenson, Adirondack Photographers, 1850-1950, p. 22
External link:
- The Adirondack Experience has some two dozen images produced by Charles Derby mostly from the Paul Smiths and St. Regis Lakes region.
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