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Baker Art Gallery was a photography studio in Columbus, Ohio from 1862-1955. Among those to have their portraits taken were William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Annie Oakley. They also won first place at various exhibitions, including the World's Columbian Exhibition. ==Background== Lorenzo Marvin Baker was born April 25, 1834 in Copenhagen, New York,〔(【引用サイトリンク】Find a Grave ">title=Lorenzo Marvin Baker )〕 and came to Columbus, Ohio in 1854. He worked at the Neil House, (a hotel), and was an officer in the state penitentiary under Governor Chase, and served for a short time in the Union Army during the American Civil War.〔 In 1862 he started a photography business and established a gallery.〔〔 file:Lorenzo Baker 1896.jpg|Lorenzo Baker, 1896 File:Duane Henry Baker 1896.jpg|Duane Baker, 1896 file:John Samuel Schneider 1896.jpg|John Schneider, 1896 Baker took on his employee, John Samuel Schneider, (1860 - 1926),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Burial Records - S )〕 and his son, Duane Henry Baker, (1859 - 1934),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Burial Records - B )〕 as equal 1/3 partners in the business after the younger Baker graduated from Ohio State University and Schneider from Baldwin-Wallace College.〔 They ran a highly successful business that included Presidents Hayes, McKinley, Taft, and Harding as clients.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey ">title=Baker Art Gallery, 232 S. High St., Columbus, Ohio )〕 After the founder died in 1924, Duane Baker continued the business.〔 Two more generations of the Baker family continued the business until 1955, when they donated their photos and negatives to the Ohio Historical Society〔(【引用サイトリンク】Ohio Historical Society ">title=OhioPix - Baker Art Gallery Exterior Photograph )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baker Art Gallery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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