About R. J. Waters
Lived 1856 – 1937 (aged 81). R. J. Waters was an American photographer.
Raper James Waters (September 24, 1856 – November 5, 1937) was an American commercial photographer in California and Nevada.
Early life Raper James Waters was born on September 24, 1856, in Sacramento, California. His father was George Gilbert Waters (1822-) and his mother was Lydia Mary Milner (1817-1881). He had two sons with Anna M. Waters between 1892 and 1895.
Career In 1892, Waters opened, R. J. Waters & Co., a commercial photography studio at 110 Sutter Street, in San Francisco. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Online Archive of California, and the University of Nevada, Reno library.
The Library of Congress has two of his panoramic photographs from 1909, three years after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
Death Waters died on November 5, 1937, in French Camp, San Joaquin County, California, at the age of 81. According to the California Department of Public Health death certificate, he was cremated on November 8, at the Casa Bonita Funeral Home in Stockton, California.
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American photographer (1856–1937)
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R. J. Waters was born on 24 September 1856 in Sacramento.
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R. J. Waters died on 5 November 1937 in French Camp, California.
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R. J. Waters was a photographer.
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