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Hartsook Studios was a famous early 20th-century portrait photography business in California founded by photographer Fred Hartsook. At its peak, the business operated numerous branch locations across California and beyond—including as many as 21 studios under management, in cities such as Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco. The studios were renowned for capturing high-profile clientele, including early Hollywood silent film stars (like Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish), vaudeville performers, and local society figures.
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LOCATIONS:
Anaheim, Orange, California, 1904
Bakersfield, Kern, California: 1923 I Street, 1916–1935
Camp Kearny, San Diego, California, 1919*
Delano, Kern, California, 1916
Fresno, Fresno, California:
1228 J Street, 1917–1923
1228 Fulton Street, 1924
1036 Fulton Street, 1925
1130 Fulton Street, 1926–1928
1032–1034 Fulton Street, 1926–1929
2040 Tulare Street, 1929–1931
1144 Fulton Street, 1931
Fullerton, Orange, California: next to Post Office, 1904
Long Beach, Los Angeles, California:
322 The Pike, 1917–1919
111 East Ocean Avenue, 1919–1927
116½ East Seaside Boulevard, 1922
149 East Seaside Boulevard, 1923–1925
814 American Avenue, 1928–1931
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California:
542½ South Broadway / 228 Mercantile Place, 1907–1911
636 South Broadway (New Orpheum Building), 1911–1931
627 South Broadway, 1916
Oakland, Alameda, California:
600 14th Street (14th & Jefferson), 1910–1915
408 14th Street, 1915–1928
1926 Franklin Street, 1928–1935
Pasadena, Los Angeles, California:
33 West Colorado Street, 1915–1928
961 East Colorado Street, 1928–1929
Pomona, Los Angeles, California:
357 West Second Street, 1915–1924
237 West Second Street, 1924
160 West Second Street, 1925–1926
Sacramento, Sacramento, California:
Hartsook–Bushnell Photo Co., 422 K Street, 1915–1917
422 K Street, 1928–1925
1123 Tenth Street, 1925–1930
Riverside, Riverside, California:
301 Loring Building, 1920–1926
699 Main Street, 1927–1929
3691 Main Street, 1930
San Diego, San Diego, California:
Cabrillo Theater Building, 331 Plaza, 1918–1928
1050 Ninth Street, 1929–1930
964 Fifth Avenue, 1932–1939
San Francisco, San Francisco, California:
41 Grant Avenue, 1909–1927
149 Powell Street, 1928–1936
San Jose, Santa Clara, California:
285 South First Street, 1919–1928
152 South Second Street, 1929–1932
Santa Ana, Orange, California: 312 Bush Street, 1904–1905
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California: 19 Aiken Building, 903–905 State Street, 1905
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California: 96 Pacific Avenue, 1916–1920
Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, 523 Fourth Street, 1917–1927
Stockton, San Joaquin, California:
531 East Main Street, 1917–1929
16 South Sutter Street, 1930–1932
Visalia, Tulare, California:
110 West Main Street, 1916
104 West Main Street, 1916–1928
John Frederick Hartsook
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
Fred Hartsook was born on 26 October 1876 in Marion, Indiana to John Hartsook and Abbie, née Gorham. He was born into a family of photographers and studio owners, his father and two uncles were all successful in the business and his grandfather had been the first photographer to open a studio in Virginia. According to a 1921 profile by John S. McGroarty, "the first Hartsooks [took] up the profession when it was in the infancy of development with the old daguerreotype and the first wet plate processes."
After graduating from high school at age sixteen Hartsook was apprenticed by his uncle as a civil engineer, but spent most of his time in his father's studio. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and married Flora "Flossie" Newcomb on 12 September 1901.[2] Flossie came from a family of photographers. She operated her own studio in Vernal, Utah in 1906. Flossie served as Fred's assistant for their traveling photographic studio throughout the Utah territory. They had one daughter; Frances born 25 June 1902. Fred and family then set out to establish themselves in California, arriving sometime after 1906. The couple divorced in 1912.
Initially, Hartsook operated as an "itinerant shutterbug, [wandering] all over the state, his team of mules pulling a homemade darkroom." Later he opened two studios, in Santa Ana and Santa Barbara, but eventually closed them in order to open a studio on 636 South Broadway in Los Angeles.
Hartsook's success as a photographer and studio owner allowed him to expand into other cities along the Pacific Coast, including San Francisco and Oakland. In 1921, McGroarty gives the number of studios as 20 and describes it as the "largest photographic business in the world". Bill Robertson, director of the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services, cited by KPCC in 2009, mentions 30 studios.
On 30 September 1930, Hartsook died of a heart attack in Burbank, California, shortly before his 54th birthday.
CA0009 – "Mary F. Green," Photo in Cardboard Frame, Hartsook Studios, December 1919
Anaheim Weekly Gazette, Thursday, March 31, 1904, p. 3
Anaheim Weekly Gazette, Thursday, April 7, 1904, p. 2
Anaheim Weekly Gazette, Thursday, April 7, 1904, p. 3
Anaheim Weekly Gazette, Thursday, April 21, 1904, p. 2
Anaheim Weekly Gazette, Thursday, April 28, 1904, p. 3
Anaheim Weekly Gazette, Thursday, June 23, 1904, p. 1
Anaheim Weekly Gazette, Thursday, September 22, 1904, p. 2
The Morning Press (Santa Barbara, CA), Wednesday, June 7, 1905, p. 8
The Morning Press (Santa Barbara, CA), Wednesday, June 7, 1905, p. 3
The Morning Press (Santa Barbara, CA), Friday, July 28, 1905,
p. 3
The Morning Press (Santa Barbara, CA), Saturday, July 29, 1905,
p. 3
The Morning Press (Santa Barbara, CA), Tuesday, August 1, 1905, p. 8
The Weekly Press (Santa Barbara, CA), Thursday, August 3, 1905, p. 5
The Morning Press (Santa Barbara, CA), Tuesday, September 26, 1905, p. 2
The Morning Press (Santa Barbara, CA), Tuesday, November 7, 1905, p. 8
Los Angeles Express, Monday,
February 25, 1907, p. 12
The Los Angeles Record, Friday, April 12, 1907, p. 6
Los Angeles Express, Saturday, September 21, 1907, p. 15
The Long Beach Press, Monday, November 18, 1907, p. 2
The Elsinore (CA) Press, Friday, November 6, 1908, p. 7
The San Francisco Examiner, Saturday, October 23, 1909, p. 25
Oakland Tribune, Sunday, September 18, 1910, p. 43
Los Angeles Sunday Times, Sunday,
July 16, 1911, Part IV, p. 2
The Tribune (Los Angeles, CA), Saturday, December 16, 1911, p. 2
Los Angeles Express, Saturday, December 16, 1911, p. 11
Los Angeles Express, Tuesday, December 26, 1911, p. 10
Oakland Tribune, Friday, April 19, 1912, p. 9
Oakland Tribune, Monday, June 10, 1912, p. 5
The Bulletin (San Francisco, CA), Wednesday, June 26, 1912, p. 9
Oakland Tribune, Saturday, June 29, 1912, p. 5
Oakland Tribune, Tuesday, July 2, 1912, p. 11
Oakland Tribune, Tuesday,
September 10, 1912, p. 7
Oakland Tribune, Saturday, October 19, 1912, p. 4
Oakland Tribune, Tuesday,
November 19, 1912, p. 6
Oakland Tribune, Sunday, November 24, 1912, p. 20
Oakland Tribune, Thursday,
December 5, 1912, p. 4
The Record (Los Angeles, CA), Saturday, December 14, 1912, p. 1
Oakland Tribune, Monday, May 5, 1913, p. 3
Oakland Tribune, Tuesday, May 20, 1913, p. 7
Oakland Enquirer, Friday, August 15, 1913, p. 9
Los Angeles Express, Wednesday, October 15, 1913, p. 6
San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, November 6, 1913, p. 20
Daily Tribune (Los Angeles, CA), Wednesday, December 10, 1913, p. 4
Daily Tribune (Los Angeles, CA), Wednesday, December 10, 1913, p. 4
Los Angeles Express, Monday, December 15, 1913, p. 13
Oakland Enquirer, Thursday,
December 18, 1913, p. 13
Oakland Enquirer, Wednesday, December 31, 1913, p. 3
Oakland Tribune, Wednesday, March 4, 1914, p. 5
Hollywood Citizen, Friday, March 20, 1914, p. 7
Oakland Tribune, Saturday, March 28, 1914, p. 3
The Covina (CA) Argus, Saturday, June 6, 1914, p. 5
The Pomona Daily Review, Thursday, February 4, 1915, p. 8
The Pomona Progress, Thursday, February 4, 1915, p. 8
The Pomona Daily Review, Thursday, February 4, 1915, p. 3
The Pomona Daily Review, Monday, March 1, 1915, p. 8
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Thursday, March 2, 1915, p. 8
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Thursday, March 2, 1915, p. 6
The Pomona Daily Review, Tuesday, March 9, 1915, p. 8
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Friday, March 2, 1915, p. 8
The San Francisco Call and Post, Thursday, March 18, 1915, p. 8
Oakland Tribune, Sunday, March 28, 1915, p. 13
The Ponoma Daily Review, Homeseeker's Edition, Tuesday, August 24, 1915, Section 3, p. 3
The California Eagle (Los Angeles, CA), Saturday, October 23, 1915, p. 8
Oakland Enquirer, Tuesday,
November 2, 1915, p. 12
Chino Champion, Friday, December 3, 1915, p. 5
The Los Angeles Times, Saturday, January 1, 1916, p. 47
The Sacramento Star, Thursday,
January 20, 1916, p. 2
Tulare County Times (Visalia, CA), Tuesday, February 1, 1916, p. 8
Visalia Daily Times, Wednesday, February 2, 1916, p. 5
Visalia Morning Delta, Sunday,
February 13, 1916, p. 2
The Bakersfield Californian, Thursday, February 24, 1916, p. 1
Visalia Morning Delta, Sunday,
February 27, 1916, p. 3
Visalia Morning Delta, Sunday, March 5, 1916, p. 5
Visalia Morning Delta, Tuesday,
March 7, 1916, p. 5
Visalia Daily Times, Wednesday,
March 15, 1916, p. 8
The Morning Echo (Bakersfield, CA), Thursday, March 16, 1916, p. 4
The Bakersfield Californian, Thursday, March 16, 1916, p. 3
The Bakersfield Californian, Monday, March 20, 1916, p. 9
Oakland Tribune, Friday, March 24, 1916, p. 13
Visalia Daily Times, Thursday, April 6, 1916, p. 3
The Bakersfield Californian, Monday, April 17, 1916, p. 5
Visalia Daily Times, Friday, April 29, 1916, p. 5
Visalia Morning Delta, Sunday, April 30, 1916, p. 5
Santa Cruz News, Friday, May 5, 1916,
p. 1
Oakland Enquirer, Friday, May 5, 1916,
p. 15
The Bakersfield Californian, Monday, May 8, 1916, p. 9
Woodland (CA) Daily Democrat, Monday, May 15, 1916, p. 5
The Bulletin (San Francisco, CA), Tuesday, May 30, 1916, p. 10
Santa Cruz Surf, Wednesday, May 31, 1918, p. 8
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Saturday, June 3, 1916, p. 8
Visalia Daily Times, Wednesday,
August 2, 1916, p. 8
Oakland Tribune, Thursday,
November 2, 1916, p. 5
The Bakersfield Californian, Friday, November 17, 1916, p. 5
The California Eagle (Los Angeles, CA), Saturday, November 18, 1916, p. 3
Fresno Herald, Wednesday, January 31, 1917, p. 3
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Wednesday, January 31, 1917, p. 5
The Fresno Herald, Friday, February 2, 1917, p. 13
The Lodi (CA) Sentinel, Tuesday, February 6, 1917, p. 4
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Thursday, February 8, 1917, p. 10
The Fresno Herald, Friday, February 9, 1917, p. 12
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Thursday, February 15, 1917, p. 10
The Fresno Herald, Friday, February 16, 1917, p. 12
The Lodi (CA) Sentinel, Saturday, February 17, 1917, p. 10
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Tuesday, February 20, 1917, p. 5
The Fresno Herald, Friday, February 23, 1917, p. 12
The Lodi (CA) Sentinel, Saturday, February 24, 1917, p. 4
The Fresno Herald, Friday, March 2, 1917, p. 12
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Friday, March 2, 1917, p. 5
The Fresno Morning Republican, Saturday, March 3, 1917, p. 7
The Fresno Morning Republican, Sunday, March 18, 1917, p. 14
The Fresno Morning Republican, Thursday, March 22, 1917, p. 11
The Fresno Morning Republican, Sunday, April 1, 1917, p. 22
The Fresno Herald, Friday, April 6, 1917, p. 15
The Fresno Herald, Friday, April 20, 1917, p. 17
The Fresno Herald, Friday, April 27, 1917, p. 16
The Fresno Herald, Friday, May 4, 1917, p. 15
The Fresno Herald, Sunday, May 20, 1917, p. 20
The Fresno Herald, Friday, May 25, 1917, p. 13
The Fresno Herald, Friday, June 1, 1917,
p. 12
The Fresno Herald, Friday, June 8 , 1917, p. 14
The Fresno Herald, Friday, June 15, 1917, p. 13
The Fresno Herald, Friday, June 22, 1917, p. 13
The Fresno Herald, Friday, June 29, 1917, p. 4
The Fresno Herald, Friday, July 6, 1917,
p. 11
The Fresno Herald, Friday, July 13, 1917, p. 11
The Fresno Herald, Thursday, July 19, 1917, p. 9
The Selma (CA) Enterprise, Thursday, August 30, 1917, p. 3
The Fresno Herald, Friday,
September 14, 1917, p. 11
Santa Cruz Evening News, Tuesday, September 18, 1917, p. 4
The Fresno Herald, Friday,
September 21, 1917, p. 13
The Fresno Herald, Friday, October 5, 1917, p. 13
The Fresno Herald, Friday, October 19, 1917, p. 15
The Fresno Herald, Friday, October 26, 1917, p. 12
The Sebastopol Times, Friday, November 9, 1917, p. 5
The Fresno Herald, Friday, November 16, 1917, p. 14
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Friday,
November 23, 1917, p. 4
The Fresno Herald, Friday,
November 30, 1917, p. 12
The Fresno Herald, Friday, December 14,
1917, p. 3
The Morning Echo (Bakersfield, CA), Friday, December 14, 1917, p. 3
The Sacramento Bee, Friday,
December 14, 1897, p. 5
Hollywood Citizen, Friday, December 14, 1917, p. 10
Visalia Daily Times, Saturday,
December 15, 1917, p. 3
Morning Tribune (Los Angeles, CA), Monday, December 17, 1917, p. 2
Fowler (CA) Ensign, Wednesday, December 17, 1917, p. 10
The Fresno Herald, Friday,
December 28, 1917, p. 13
The San Francisco Examiner, Monday, December 31, 1917, p. 16
The Fresno Herald, Wednesday,
January 2, 1918, p. 7
The Fresno Herald, Wednesday,
January 9, 1918, p. 7
The Fresno Herald, Wednesday, February 13, 1918, p. 7
The Fresno Herald, Wednesday,
March 13, 1918, p. 13
The Fresno Morning Republican, Thursday, March 21, 1918, p. 14
The Fresno Herald, Monday, March 25, 1918, p. 2
The Lodi (CA) Sentinel, Saturday,
March 30, 1918, p. 7
The Sacramento Bee, Thursday, June 20, 1918, p. 22
The Fresno Morning Republican, Thursday, July 11, 1918, p. 15
San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, July 19, 1918, p. 10
La Voce del Popolo Della Domenica (San Francisco, CA), Sunday August 4, 1918,
p. 7
Oakland Enquirer, Saturday,
September 14, 1918, p. 7
Oakland Tribune, Sunday, September 15, 1918, p. 45
The Fresno Herald, Tuesday, October 1, 1918, p. 4
Visalia Morning Delta, Thursday, October 10, 1918, p. 4
The Fresno Morning Republican, Thursday, October 10, 1918, p. 14
Visalia Morning Delta, Friday,
October 11, 1918, p. 4
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Saturday, October 12, 1918, p. 3
The Daily Report (Ontario, CA), Thursday, October 17, 1918, p. 3
Visalia Morning Delta, Thursday, October 17, 1918, p. 5
Visalia Morning Delta, Thursday, October 24, 1918, p. 8
Visalia Morning Delta, Saturday, October 26, 1918, p. 4
The Fresno Herald, Wednesday, November 6, 1918, p. 3
The Fresno Morning Republican, Thursday, November 14, 1918, p. 3
The Fresno Herald, Wednesday, November 27, 1918, p. 6
Oakland Tribune, Tuesday,
December 10, 1918, p. 4
San Pedro (CA) Daily Pilot, Friday, December 13, 1918, p. 4
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Tuesday, December 31, 1918, p. 7
The Fresno Morning Republican, Wednesday, February 26, 1919, p. 8
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Wednesday, March 12, 1919, p. 8
Santa Rosa Republican, Saturday,
June 14, 1919, p. 8
Long Beach Press, Saturday,
September 13, 1919, p. 20
Long Beach Daily Telegram, Tuesday, October 7, 1919, p. 10
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Saturday,
October 11, 1919, p. 7
The Fresno Morning Republican, Sunday, October 12, 1919, p. 2
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Sunday, October 12, 1919, p. 5
The San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, October 19, 1919, p. 7
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Wednesday, November 12, 1919, p. 5
San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, November 17, 1919, p. 3
The Fresno Herald, Tuesday,
November 18, 1919, p. 2
The Long Beach Press, Tuesday, November 18, 1919, p. 2
Long Beach Press, Tuesday,
November 18, 1919, p. 18
San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, November 19, 1919, p. 2
San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, November 21, 1919, p. 12
San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, November 21, 1919, p. 4
The Fresno Morning Republican, Wednesday, November 26, 1919, p. 14
Visalia Morning Delta, Thursday, November 27, 1919, p. 6
The Daily Report (Ontario, CA), Monday, December 1, 1919, p. 1
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Sunday,
November 23, 1919, p. 4
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Saturday, November 29, 1919, p. 8
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Wednesday, December 3, 1919, p. 6
Chino (CA) Champion, Friday,
December 5, 1919, p. 2
Visalia Morning Delta, Sunday, December 7, 1919, p. 8
San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, December 12, 1919, pp. 2–4
The Tidings (Los Angeles, CA), Friday, December 12, 1919, p. 96
The Fresno Morning Republican, Sunday, December 14, 1919, p. 16
The Los Angeles Times, Monday, December 15, 1919, p. 3
The San Francisco Call and Post, Tuesday, December 16, 1919, p. 7
Chaffey Tatler, Chaffey High School, Ontario, CA, Wednesday, January 28, 1920, p. 1
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Wednesday, February 18, 1920, p. 4
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Sunday, March 7, 1920, p. 11
San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, March 8, 1920, p. 12
San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, March 8, 1920, p. 13
Oakland Tribune, Monday, March 8, 1920, p. 4
The San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, April 11, 1920, p. 9
Santa Rosa Republican, Wednesday, April 28, 1920, p. 5
Visalia Morning Delta, Sunday, August 1, 1920, p. 12
Los Angeles Evening Express, Thursday, October 14, 1920, p. 30
Bakersfield Morning Echo, Sunday, October 17, 1920, p. 7
Pasadena Star-News, Tuesday, November 16, 1920, p. 10
Visalia Morning Delta, Saturday, December 4, 1920, p. 3
Santa Rosa Republican, Friday, December 10, 1920, p. 6
The Bulletin (Pomona, CA), Saturday, December 25, 1920, p. 24
Hollywood Daily Citizen, Thursday, October 2, 1930, p. 5
The San Francisco News, Thursday, October 2, 1930, p. 28
The Healdsburg (CA) Tribune, Friday, October 3, 1930, p. 2
Santa Rosa Republican, Friday,
October 3, 1930, p. 9
Hollywood Daily Citizen, Saturday, October 4, 1930, p. 5
The Los Angeles Times, Sunday, October 5, 1930, p. 23
Vallejo Evening News, Monday,
October 6, 1930, p. 1
San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, October 13, 1930, p. 3
The San Francisco Call-Bulletin, Monday, October 13, 1930, p. 3
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