George C. Ford
American, active 1870s
MaleIn several newspaper articles, and reproduced in Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, George C. Ford is noted in late 1879 as a fraud travelling the western US, an agent of the non-existent photographic firm Stone & Smith of Chicago. He would take orders for making photographic reproductions of daguerreotypes. His unwitting victims would pay Ford, then mail their photographs to the bogus address of Stone & Smith. The Postal Service opened an investigation after "upward of 1,000" undeliverable letters containing daguerreotypes poured into the Dead Letter Office.
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Active in (1870s)
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