George P. Hall

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George P. Hall

George P. Hall began his professional photographic career in Dayton, Ohio in 1854, and came to New York City in 1872. He died in 1900. His son, James S. Hall, continued the business until approximately 1911 with studios and retail shops in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan. The firm made photographs for sale in souvenir books, as illustrations for "King’s Views of New York City", for reproduction as postcards, and for other commercial purposes.

Hall photographs can be found in:

Old New York in Early Photographs: 1853-1901; Dover Publications 1973,1976. p. 38, 162,197.
Old Brooklyn 1850’s to 1900; Dover Publications.
Kouwenhoven, John A.: The Columbia Historical Portrait of New York. Harper & Row, 1953. p. 423.
Jackson, Kenneth T. ed.: The Encyclopedia of New York City.; Yale University Press, The New York Historical Society. (In fact four of the photographs on this site, and many more that aren’t are illustrated in this interesting and useful book.)
The Museum of the City of New York permanent collection.

Brooklyn Bridge 1900c. Original Postcard	Herald Square 1909 Original Postcard

About These Prints

The vintage glass negatives from which these prints are made are from the collection of Carlo Pappolla of Branford, CT. The contact prints were made directly from the original negatives by Dan Lenore, a commercial photographer whose studio and darkroom are in Norwalk, CT. The plates are very large, ranging from 11 x 14 to 14 x 17 inches. In order to hold the long range of tones of the original negatives, contrast-reducing masks were made for each plate, and printed in registration with the negatives. The final fibre-based prints are processed to archival standards.