Notes
Manager of the mechanical department of Alexander Black's picture plays ca. 1890s. Traveled with Black and operated the magic lantern during shows. Seems to have mounted or had some other role in the manufacture of lantern slides based on Alexander Black's photographs/stories.
1013 1/2 Gates Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. - dates unknown
laboratory located in house at 962 Gates Ave - ca. 1897
References
"Mr. Tisdell's Burned Hands: Circumstances of the Fatal Accident to the Boy McCord." The Brooklyn Daily Times, Thursday, October 7, 1897, Page 3. Accessed May 29, 2025. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-times/65315774/ "The Fair: Large Crowds in Attendance—Weather Fair—Gov. Flower and his Address." The Cortland Democrat, Friday, September 15, 1893. Accessed May 29, 2025. https://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-county-fair-and-airship-flyi…
Herbert, Stephen. November 2012. "Alexander Black." Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. Accessed May 29, 2025. https://www.victorian-cinema.net/black.php
