Augustine H. Folsom

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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. [1] [2] Subjects included buildings in Massachusetts, Maine, and Georgia. Folsom showed photographic work in the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association exhibitions of 1874 and 1881. [3] [4] [5] He lived in Roxbury, c. 1870–1926. [6] Works by Folsom reside in the collections of the Boston Public Library; Historic New England; Metropolitan Museum, NY; [7] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; [8] the Georgia State Archives; [9] and the American Antiquarian Society. [10]

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  1. Boston Directory. 1873.
  2. Boston Almanac. 1888
  3. 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 books
  4. Photographic Times, Jan. 1875. Google books
  5. Mechanic Association : fourteenth triennial exhibition. Open September and October. Huntington Ave. and West Newton St. Boston. Boston: Rand, Avery, 1881
  6. Boston Landmarks Commission. 1984 Survey and planning grant, part 1 - Parker Hill / Mission Hill project completion report. 1985
  7. "Metropolitan Museum of Art".
  8. "MFA Boston". Archived from the original on 2007-02-24.
  9. "Vanishing Georgia".
  10. "American Antiquarian Society".
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