Stunning, fun multi photo of the photographer Wellington Singhi in Binghamton NY.
What a goof! Great piece of advertising! I've seen some singles of this but not a multiple like this. See photos.
Nice condition.
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Biography
Wellington G. Singhi was
born 4 August 1837 in Rockland, Maine, the son of Francis A.D. Singhi,
born 1804 Lucca, Italy, and Susan Ulmer, born 1811. According to a local
newspaper, Well ran away at age 8 to become an errand boy on the ship
“Kate Sweatland”, and would stay at sea off and on for nearly 12 years.
He was listed as living with his parents and four siblings in Rockland,
Maine in the 1850 census. He began his photography career in Mt.
Pleasant, Illinois in 1860, and was listed in the 1860 census as a
daguerreotype artist; his wife, Mary E., was 16, and they had a
one-month old daughter, Hattie. In the 1863 Civil War draft
registration, he was living in Rockland, Maine, and was a photographer.
In 1863 he paid Michael Martin to be his substitute in the war. He paid
for Class B licenses in 1864 and 1865. Well and Mary divorced in 1865,
and circa 1867 he married Mercena B. (last name unknown, born March
1828). In 1870, Singhi was living in Athens, Bedford, Pennsylvania, and
was listed as a photographer, with $2,500 in real estate and $400 in
personal property. Oddly, he was listed in a separate non-population
census as living in Waverly, New York, and there were references to him
having spent 1870-1872 in Waverly. In the 1880 census he was working as a
photographer in Binghamton, New York; the local paper stated that he
came to Binghamton in 1872, and stayed there until around 1886. Singhi
returned to Rockland, Maine and was listed as a real estate agent in the
1900 census. Mercena B. Singhi passed away on 9 January 1910. On 26
September 1911, Singhi married Lucilla Dunton. He was married again on 5
September 1917, this time to Eva M. Rhodes. Well Singhi was still in
Rockland for the 1920 census. Eva was listed as a widow in a 1921
Rockland directory. According to several articles, Singhi was a
gregarious man and this was apparently reflected in his unusual
advertising, and in this cabinet card photo.
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