Biografie von Edmund L. BARBER (1808-1870)

Birth place: New Haven, CT

Death place: San Fran., CA

Addresses: New Haven, CT, active 1831-39; California

Profession: Wood engraver

Comments: Went to California with the Gold Rush. By 1854 he was in partnership with George H. Baker in Sacramento.

Sources: G&W; American Advertising Directory (1831), 53; Hamilton notes two cuts by Barber in Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts (Worcester, 1839), opp. pp. 404, 457. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 33.