biography of Asa BUSHBY (1834-1897)

Birth place: Danvers, MA

Death place: Tacoma, WA

Addresses: Massachusetts, active 1856 through late 1880s; afterwards settled in Tacoma, WA

Profession: Portrait painter and photographer

Studied: Largely self-taught

Comments: Bushby was painting portraits around Danvers as early as 1856. After the Civil War he went into photography at Lynn (Mass.) and later at Boston.

Sources: G&W; Danvers Hist. Soc. Collections, XXIV (1936), 1-20, including check list of his work; Sears, Some American Primitives, 291.

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