John Howard Wainwright: 1862-1911

This website has tentatively identified the photographer of this work as John Howard Wainwright, with the insight of primary sources he was affiliated with the New York Camera Club as J. Howard Wainwright. A further comment mentioned he had done photographic studies of Rye, New York: the location of his family plot.  Besides being “a direct lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Governor of New York”, an online obituary mentions he: …graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in chemistry. For many years he was employed in the United States customs service as an expert in chemistry, and later as a member of the firm of Symonds & Wainwright, chemical experts.

Editorial Comment for this plate:

MILL POND AT MILTON, NEW YORK.

OUR picture, this week, is from a film negative, by J. H. Wainwright, Secretary of the New York Camera Club. It shows a picturesque mill pond in the little town of Milton, N. Y. The composition of the picture is simple and attractive. It requires no explanation. The shape of the picture, as printed in photo-gravure, suggests a simple method by which the pleasing effect of a composition may be enhanced.

Mr. Wainwright used a “stripping” film, and hydrochinon development. (p. 503)