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Amos W.Nagel 1862-1930

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Posted By: Gene Meier (email)
Date: 10/8/2011 at 17:52:24

I am writing the first book from the American point of view about 19th century rotunda panoramas. These were the biggest paintings in the world, 50 x 400=20,000 square feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons.Chicago in 1893 had 6 panorama companies and 6 panorama rotundas.Amos.W Nagel(1862-1930)is featured in PAST & PRESENT OF ALLAMAKEE COUNTY (1913).Mr.Nagel was "employed for one year as a coachman by H.H.Gross,superintendent of the Panoramic." Howard H.Gross (1853-1920) and his brother in law Isaac Newton Reed (1848-1940)had a panorama studio in Englewood,a suburb of Chicago in the 1880s and a neighborhood of Chicago in the 1890s. From September 1885 through September 1888 Reed & Gross,who hired the top artists in Chicago,produced every 90 days units of the BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG and JERUSALEM ON THE DAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION for cities from coast to coast and beyond.Mr.Gross' photographer,Plymon Bernt Greene (1828-October 25,1892) had just died.Mr.Gross hired Amos Nagel ,who had a background in photography,and because he needed a coachman.Amos would have been an eye-witness to much behind-the-scenes action concerning the World's Columbian Exposition.Mr.Gross erected the CHICAGO FIRE PANORAMA on Michigan between Madison and Monroe,and was contracted to decorate the California Building on the Midway Plaisance. I wish to contact the descendants of Amos W.Nagel, who might have unique photographs and other materials.I have much to share.

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