(UX5) Fron A.E. Foote - Philadelphia, PA 1879
A.E. Foote, Bookseller and mineral dealer - Philadelphia, PA 1879
(1846-1895)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/benjc.../2801804208/Albert Edward Foote, one of America's most famous early mineral dealers, was born on February 4, 1846, in Hamilton, Madison County, New York. He graduated from Courtland Academy in Homer, New York, where he first became interested in mineralogy through the influence of Dr. Caleb Green and began collecting minerals in 1862.
He placed a handsome exhibit of minerals in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and had to rent cheap quarters nearby to store his surplus specimens; visitors to the exhibition wanted to purchase specimens, so he took them to his temporary quarters and thus his mineral business was born.
In 1876, to help launch his new business, Foote issued a substantial catalog of minerals for sale from his Philadelphia address at 3725 Lancaster Avenue
(1897 issue)
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