A. A. Turner, American photolithographer

Abstract

Austin Augustus Turner died before he reached his fortieth birthday. During his life he actively sought fortune and prominence in photography, a field where such things were possible With a powerful ambition. Through a stroke ofluck he was to become America's first full-time photomcchanical printer. He was born Abijah Austin Turner about 1831 in North Carolina, the family sometime later resettled in Bath, Maine. Turner changed his name to Austin Augustus, probably before he took his first job as a house painter in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1850.

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