Fred Hartsook

Photographer, Visual Artist

1876 – 1930

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Who was Fred Hartsook?

Fred Hartsook was an American photographer and owner of a California studio chain described as "the largest photographic business in the world" at the time, who counted Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Mary Pickford, and sitting President Woodrow Wilson among his celebrity clients. He later became the owner of the Hartsook Inn, a resort in Humboldt County, and two ranches in Southern California on which he reared prized Holstein cattle. Hartsook was married to Bess Hesby, queen of the San Francisco Pan-Pacific Exposition of 1915.

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Born
Oct 26, 1876
Marion
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Sep 30, 1930
Burbank

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on July 23, 2013

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