About Ernest Ferdinand Ritz
Lived 1847 – 1890 (aged 42–43). Ernest Ferdinand Ritz was an American photographer.
Ernest Ferdinand Ritz (5 March 1848 – 4 June 1890) was a Swedish-American photographer in Boston, Massachusetts during the 19th century.
Ritz was born in Stockholm. He came to the United States in November 1859, settling with his parents, Johanna and Oscar, in Boston. He became a citizen in 1876. The studio devoted itself exclusively to portrait work. In 1881 Ritz & Hastings showed work at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association exhibit and in 1883 at the Professional Photographers of America conference in Milwaukee.
He died in Boston, aged 42.
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American photographer
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Ernest Ferdinand Ritz was born in 1847 in Sweden.
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Ernest Ferdinand Ritz died on 4 June 1890.
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