Isaiah West Taber

American photographer
American, (1830–1912)
Taber opened his first photographic studio in Syracuse, New York before 1864. In 1864 Taber moved to San Francisco, California where he opened a studio and photographic publishing firm in 1871. By the 1890s Taber had opened studios in London, England and in Europe. After the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) went bankrupt in 1873-1874, Taber acquired and printed Watkins old negatives taken between 1861 and 1873, mostly views of Yosemite National Park, California.