GEORGE C. TEAFORD

George C. Teaford was born in 1840 in Augusta County, Va., and died in 1921 in the same county. Teaford's presence in Huntington appears as a series of advertisements for his Star Art Gallery in the Huntington Argus in the spring of 1873. By 1876 he had moved his studio to Rockbridge County, Virginia.
     A search of the Special Collections still image collections has turned up only a single photographic print, a cart-de-visite, taken by Teaford. The University of Virginia has five undated CDV portraits of individuals from Churchville and Lexington, Va., also taken by Teaford .

Sources: Barbara Crawford and Royster Lyle, Jr., Rockbridge County Artists and Artisans (University of Virginia Press, 1995), p. 225; George C. Teaford, Cartes-de-visite from Churchville and Staunton, Va., in Virginia Studio Photography Collection, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

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