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Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd)

 Person

Biographical History

B. L. Singley (1864-1938) was an American photography businessman.

Benneville Lloyd Singley was born on December 8, 1864 in Union Township, Pennsylvania to Andrew Singley and Caroline Sherman. Singley worked as a salesman for Underwood & Underwood, a stereographic and news photography company. In 1889 he married Anna Bell Caraway in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and together they had five children. In 1892, he founded The Keystone View Company as a distributor of stereographic images in Meadville. Singley passed away on November 15, 1938 in Meadville.

Citation:
P&P data from LOT 12962 for Indians of Canada [graphic] c1900-c1928: photos (B.L. Singley)

Index Am. phot. colls., 1990: p. 632 (Singley, Benjamin L.; American photographer; active 1890s-1910s)

LC data base, 11-19-91 (hdg.: Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd))

Copyright Off. card cat., Graphic arts, 1898-1937 (B. Lloyd Singley)

Collection of spirit photographs, 1893-1894 (B. L. Singley founded The Keystone View Co. in 1892, larger producer on stereographs; company went out of business in 1970)

Wikipedia, Mar. 9, 2012: Keystone View Company (B. L. Singley, Benneville Lloyd Singley; b. Dec. 8, 1864 in Union Township, Pa.; d. Nov. 15, 1938; former salesman for Underwood & Underwood; Keystone View was a distributor of stereographic images)

Ancestry.com, Mar. 9, 2012 (B. L. Singley; Benneville Lloyd Singley; Lloyd B. Singley; parents, Andrew Singley and Caroline Sherman; m. 1889 to Anna Bell Caraway in Meadville, Pa., five children; d. in Meadville, Pa.)

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

B. L. Singley and Underwood & Underwood spirit stereographs

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233285631]
Identifier: MSS 7984
Scope and Contents

Collection includes two stereoviews of photographs that were double exposed to give the illusion of a spirit. Underwood & Underwood produced one photograph and B. L. Singley produced the other.

Dates: 1893-1894
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / B. L. Singley and Underwood & Underwood spirit stereographs

Her guardian angel, 1894

 Item
Identifier: MSS 7984 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Stereograph of a little girl and a woman in a robe, double exposed as to give the illusion of a guardian angel. Image was produced by B. L. Singley of the Keystone View Company in 1894.

Dates: 1894
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 7984, B. L. Singley and Underwood & Underwood spirit stereographs

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