In 1897, he went north for the Klondike Gold Rush and worked in the White Pass and Yukon Railroad’s photographic department.
In 1876 they homesteaded at March’s Point and began farming.īurdon learned photography after the 1893 Depression shuttered his grocery store on Curtis Wharf in Anacortes. The family came to Washington Territory in 1873, eventually settling in Whatcom. She is immortalized by a Bill Mitchell mural near the site of her studio.īorn in 1868 in Newcastle, England, Thomas Lancelot “Lance” Burdon immigrated to Canada in 1871 with his parents, William and Jane (Barker) Burdon. Howell.”Įliza Schwarz died at age 44 in 1911. Judd - as well as a woman photographer in 1902, lost to history except for the name “Mrs. The studio became known as the Fidalgo Studio, located at 1011 5th Street, and a number of photographers worked from it in the 1900s, including Lance Burdon and C.L. It is possible she curtailed her career after the birth of her children in 18, but Eliza’s descendants were clear that she was the photographer in the family. The Anacortes American of the time wrote little or nothing about Eliza as a photographer, always referring to the studio as Rudolf’s. She specialized in portraits, but also photographed loggers, farmers and homes. Ewing, and opened a photography studio off of 5th and Commercial. They came to Anacortes in 1898, bought out D.B. The Schwarzes kept a crocodile as a pet - somehow unsurprising from Bill Mitchell’s great-grandparents. As they stopped at plantations, Eliza photographed middle and upper class families at play, as well as people doing backbreaking work picking crops.
Eliza was the photographer, self-taught from a correspondence course, and Rudolf was the gunsmith. Before coming to Anacortes, Swiss immigrants Eliza and Rudolf Schwarz operated the “Picture Gallery Gunshop” from a flatboat on the Mississippi River.
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