Born 1876 in Marion, Indiana, American photographer Fred Hartsook was the owner of a California studio chain described as “the largest photographic business in the world” at the time. 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.
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| Classic beauties taken by Fred Hartsook in the 1910s |
Even if the bulk of the business came from everyday studio portraiture, Hartsook gained prominence through his celebrity clients, which included silent era Hollywood actors such as Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and Carlyle Blackwell, other celebrities such as pilot Charles Lindbergh, entrepreneur Henry Ford, and opera singer Geraldine Farrar, and politicians like House leaders Champ Clark and Joseph Gurney Cannon.
In 1919, Fred Hartsook married Bess Hesby, who in 1915 was “Miss Liberty” at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. He died in 1930 at the age of 53.
These gorgeous photos are part of his part that Fred Hartsook took portraits of classic beauties in the 1910s.
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| Ann Forrest by Hartsook Photo, circa 1910s |
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| Ann Forrest by Hartsook Photo, circa 1910s |
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| Ann Forrest by Hartsook Photo, circa 1910s |
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| Ann Forrest by Hartsook Photo, circa 1910s |
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| Billie Burke by Hartsook Photo, circa 1910 |
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| Clara Kimball Young by Hartsook Photo, circa 1910s |
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| Kathleen Clifford by Hartsook Photo, circa late 1910s |
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| Mary Pickford by Hartsook Photo, circa 1910s |
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| Olive Thomas photographed by Fred Hartsook, circa 1910s |
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| Ruth Chatterton by Fred Hartsook, circa 1914 |
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| Blanche Sweet by Hartsook Photo, 1915 |
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| Blanche Sweet by Hartsook Photo, San Francisco & Los Angeles, California, 6 July 1915 |
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| Blanche Sweet by Hartsook Photo, San Francisco & Los Angeles, California, 28 July 1915. |
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| Blanche Sweet by Hartsook Photo, San Francisco & Los Angeles, California, 28 July 1915 |
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| Lillian Gish by Hartsook Photo, 1915 |
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| Lillian Gish by Hartsook Photo, 1915 |
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| May Ellison by Hartsook Photo, circa 1915 |
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| Operatic soprano Geraldine Farrar by Hartsook Photo, 1915 |
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| Ella Hall by Hartsook Photo, circa 1916 |
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| Lillian Gish by Hartsook Photo, circa 1916 |
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| Ruth St. Denis by Hartsook Photo, 1916 |
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| Ruth St. Denis by Hartsook Photo, 1916 |
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| Beverly Bayne by Hartsook, circa 1917 |
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| Blanche Sweet by Hartsook Photo, circa 1917 |
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| Kathleen Clifford by Hartsook Photo, 1917 |
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| Myrtle Gonzalez by Hartsook, circa 1917 |
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| Belle Bennett by Hartsook, circa 1918 |
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| Carol Holloway by Hartsook Photo, circa 1918 |
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| Gloria Payton by Hartsook Photo, circa 1918 |
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| Lillian Gish by Hartsook Photo, circa 1918 |
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| Mary MacLaren by Fred Hartsook, circa 1918 |
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| Mary Pickford writing at a desk, by Hartsook Photo Studio, San Francisco & Los Angeles, California, 23 March 1918 |
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| Mary Pickford, wearing a kimono, reading a letter, San Francisco & Los Angeles, California, 27 February 1918 |
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| Mary Pickford, wearing a kimono, writing at a desk, by Hartsook Photo Studio, San Francisco & Los Angeles, California, 27 February 1918 |
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| May Allison by Hartsook Photo, circa 1918 |
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| Olive Thomas by Fred Hartsook, circa 1918 |
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| Clara Horton by Hartsook Photo, circa 1919 |
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