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PIC ID: 365569

Stone & Smith

American, active 1870s

No Gender (Business or Collective)

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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.

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Stone & Smith has 1 location.

Active in (1879)

Chicago, IL
USA