Amory Nelson Hardy

Hardy (17 July 1834 or 1835 – 24 February 1911) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.

[1][2][3] Portrait subjects included US president Chester A. Arthur, clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, politician James G. Blaine, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison,[4] doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., writer Julia Ward Howe, labor activist Florence Kelley, suffragist Mary Livermore, philanthropist Isabella Somerset, and suffragist Frances Willard.

He married Angeline S. Davis in 1857 and had three children: Bertha, Grace, and William.

[5] In 1880 he exhibited photos at the first convention of the Photographers Association of America in Chicago.

[10] Hardy worked in Boston during a time when a number of other professional photographers kept studios in the downtown area, including Allen & Rowell, James Wallace Black, Elmer Chickering, William H. Getchell, J.J. Hawes, E.F. Ritz, Antoine Sonrel, and John Adams Whipple.