Kirk
Joseph Kirk learned the photographic techniques early, toward the end of the daguerrian era, and was in business by 1860 in New York with Richard W Barnes at 559 Broadway. He may have gone to Ohio in 1860 and opened a gallery there, but before the Civil War was over he was back in Newark New Jersey, where he opened his own gallery. We do know if that gallery was originally at 661 Broad street, but by the early 1870s he was at that address, where he remained until the early 1890s, at which time he probably retired as he was likely 60 years old in 1890.
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