Benneville (oder: Benjamin) Lloyd Singley
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American photographer, stereographer B.L. Singley Benneville Lloyd Singley Geb.: 8 December 1864 in Union Township Gest.: 15 November 1938 in Meadville
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American amateur photographer Benneville Lloyd Singley founded the Keystone View Company, which by the early twentieth century had become the largest stereographic company in the world. Born in 1864, Singley began his career as a salesman for the firm Underwood & Underwood, an early producer of stereoscopic images. Then, in 1892, he photographed a flood in Meadville and distributed the images under Keystone View. This was the foundation of the business, which, by 1905, had salesmen and photographers around the globe, selling some 20,000 different views that held social, historical, cultural and geographic significance.
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B. L. Singley
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Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd)
Benneville Lloyd Singley was born on December 8, 1864 in Union Township, Pennsylvania to Andrew Singley and Caroline Sherman. Singley worked as a salesman for Underwood & Underwood, a stereographic and news photography company. In 1889 he married Anna Bell Caraway in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and together they had five children. In 1892, he founded The Keystone View Company as a distributor of stereographic images in Meadville. Singley passed away on November 15, 1938 in Meadville.
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Keystone View Company
Die Keystone View Company wurde um 1891 von Benneville Lloyd Singley in Meadville, Pennsylvania gegründet. Die Firma spezialisierte sich insbesondere auf Stereoskopiebilder aus aller Welt und den Vertrieb der dazugehörenden Vorführapparate für Schulen. Aus Teilen der Keystone View Company, die mit der Press Illustrated Services fusionierte, ging später die Keystone Press hervor, eine Vorgängerfirma der heutigen Agentur Keystone.
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