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Boston Camera Club


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    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Address: 50 Bromfield Street , , Boston , Mass.
        • Affiliation Address:
        • City: Boston
        • State: Mass.

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Address: 1773 Beacon Street , Brookline , Mass.
        • Affiliation Address:
        • City: Brookline
        • State: Mass.

    • Descriptor

        Clubs

    • Associated Locale

        Boston (Mass.)

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      Photography

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  • Sources

    • found: Annual exhibition of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, the Photographic Society of Philadelphia and the Boston Camera Club (7th : 1894 : New York, N.Y.). Catalogue of the seventh annual exhibition of the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, the Photographic Society of Philadelphia and the Boston Camera Club, 1894:title page (Boston Camera Club)
    • found: Club's Web site, Apr. 1, 2015("The Boston Camera Club, a non-profit organization established in 1881 ... is dedicated to the advancement of photography as an art and science"; "All club meetings are held at the Parish House of All Saints Parish church, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts") - http://www.bostoncameraclub.org/site/
    • found: Wikipedia, Apr. 1, 2015(Boston Camera Club; "The club known today as the Boston Camera Club was founded October 7, 1881 in Boston, Massachusetts as the Boston Society of Amateur Photographers [no publications in OCLC database, Apr. 1, 2015]) ...The club was founded by F.H. Blair, James M. Codman, W.C. Greenough, A.P. Howard, Lucius L. Hubbard, Frederick Ober, and John H. Thurston, with Thurston having the most influential role ... In 1886 the club changed its name to the Boston Camera Club. On April 6, 1887, it incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the new name ... In 1886 ... the club established permanent headquarters at 50 Bromfield Street, Boston ... In 1924 the club relinquished its rooms at 50 Bromfield Street ... In 1934 the Boston Camera Club purchased a building at 351A Newbury Street ... In 1980 the 351A Newbury Street building was sold and the Boston Camera Club moved from Boston to the adjacent town of Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1997 it moved across town to its current location, also in Brookline ... The first outside exhibitions in which the Boston Camera Club was involved were the so-called Joint Exhibitions of Photography, sponsored jointly by the Boston Camera Club, Photographic Society of Philadelphia, and Society of Amateur Photographers of New York") - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Camera_Club#Boston_Society_of_Amateur_Photographers.2C_1881

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    • 2015-04-01: new
    • 2015-04-07: revised

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