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Birth
1867 (Mt. Vernon, New York)
Death
1940 (California)
Lived/Active
New York
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landscape, engraver, photo-journalist
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ERNEST CHRISTIAN ROST: Artist, Pioneer Photo-Journalist, Adventurer, and Botanist.
2003 by Jonathan Dobin.
Ernest
Christian Rost was born January 20, 1867*, at Mt. Vernon, N.Y. He was
the son of Christian Wilhelm and Minna M. Rost. Christian Rost was a
German-born artist, having studied in Paris and London. He was highly
regarded for his fine wood and copper engravings -- renderings of
governmental buildings on bank notes and official documents; images on
early postage stamps (s (showing 500 of 8658 characters). |
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