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Barnett Clinedinst


Barnett M. Clinedinst FileBarnett M Clinedinst 18371900 obituary in the Staunton


Children
  
Benjamin West Clinedinst

Barnett M. Clinedinst, Sr. (December 1835 – December 21, 1900) was an American photographer and inventor. He invented the viewfinder and the mirror-and-prism "reflex" arrangement for which the single-lens reflex camera is named.

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Biography

He was born around December 1835 or 1837 in Woodstock, Virginia. He was a bugler during the American Civil War for Stonewall Jackson.

He died on December 28, 1900 in Washington, DC.

Children

  • Barnett McFee Clinedinst, who served as official White House portrait photographer for the Presidential administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
  • Benjamin West Clinedinst, a painter.

    • References

    Barnett M. Clinedinst Wikipedia
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