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EDUCATION: hired out as apprentice in 1872 in Millersburg, OH. Taught how to make tintypes, ambrotypes and cabinet photographs. Apprenticeship lasted 2 years.
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The Mentor, "An Old Art Revived" by Poppy Cannon, June 1929, pp. 36-37: described his restoring and actually making daguerreotypes.
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modest holdings by W. M. Hollinger held by Princeton University, George Eastman House, Philadelphia Museum of Art (according to GEH Bio File, 1995)

1880 Census Place: Urbana, Champaign, Ohio
Source: FHL Film 1254998  National Archives Film T9-0998     Page 393A     
William M. HOLLINGER Self M M W 26 OH Photographer, parents b. GER
Susan HOLLINGER Wife F M W 26 OH Keeping House, Fa: PA Mo: OH
Ada A. HOLLINGER Dau F S W 1 OH, Fa: OH Mo: OH
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OriginalSource: The Mentor, "An Old Art Revived," by Poppy Cannon, June 1929, pp. 36-37: In 1872 he hired himself out as an apprentice in Millersburg, Ohio, he was taught how to make tintypes, ambrotypes and cabinet photographs, but nothing was said to him about daguerreotypes.  After the 2 yrs of his apprenticeship were over he set out over the muddy dirt roads of Ohio and Indiana to seek his fortune.
Ohio Photographers, 1839-1900, p. 67: W. M. Hollinger, Urbana, 1860, 1881-82; William M. Hollinger, Dayton; at 12 N. Main, 1889-90; 3rd & Jefferson, 1887-90; 14 N. Main, 1891-96

1880 Census Place: Urbana, Champaign, Ohio
Source: FHL Film 1254998  National Archives Film T9-0998     Page 393A     
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OriginalSource: The Mentor, "An Old Art Revived," by Poppy Cannon, June 1929, pp. 36-37: after traveling on his own, he got his first job in Goshen, IN with a salary of $15 a week, including board. His first act as an established photographer was to wrap his last penny, a large copper in tissue paper and send it to a girl back in Ohio.  (They have been married now for more than 50 yrs, and Mrs. Hollinger still has that lucky penny.) His official duties in Goshen were twofold: he taught his employer how to retouch portraits and incidentally how to drum up enough trade to pay his salary. This he accomplished by inviting the general-store keeper to have his picture taken free of charge and then exhibiting the finished product in the showcase along with the darning cotton, chewing tobacco and mousetraps.

Does not appear in 1874 Goshen CD.
Appears to have been in NYC by 1898.
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OriginalSource: The Mentor, "An Old Art Revived," by Poppy Cannon, June 1929, pp. 36-37: A few months after working for another gallery in Goshen, IN, he went into business for himself, and soon became interested in restoring and reproducing faded family portraits and photographs. The Middle Westerner was becoming quite  as ancestor-conscious as the New Englander or the artistocratic New Yorker. His specialty proved to be a popular one, and almost from the start he received a press of orders and applications from students of photography who were eager to pay him well for teaching them secrets which he himself was learning even as he taught them. When he had a difficult piece of work to do he went off by himself, experimented at length, and learned how to do it. He taught himself first, then he taught others.
A large no. of the old portraits he was asked to clean and restore were daguerreotypes--which he succeeded in restoring. Then a customer demanded an exact copy of his mother's daguerreotype, not a photograph, of it, but another daguerreotype just like the original. In order to produce such a copy Mr. Hollinger had of course to learn how to make daguerreotypes. No one at hand to teach him, but from dusty manuals of photography he learned just what equipment was required. Some of it he made himself, the rest he had made according to his own specifications.  He has perfected his skill and knowledge through long years of study and experimentation, so that now he can make daguerreotypes exactly like those that delighted our ancestors in the 50s. He makes powdered coloring to color the images. Mentions that the exposure was almost as quick as that of modern photography.
[At the time of the article, it stated that he had a studiovin the fashionable upper reaches of Fifth Avenue.]
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OriginalSource: The Mentor, "An Old Art Revived," by Poppy Cannon, June 1929, pp. 36-37: After a two-year apprenticeship in Millersburg, OH, he set out over the muddy dirt roads of Ohio and Indiana to seek his fortune. But fortune steadily evaded him until one rainy midnight he found himself in the slushy main street of Goshen, IN with a solitary copper penny.  The next day he got his first job.
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OriginalSource: The Mentor, "An Old Art Revived," by Poppy Cannon, June 1929, pp. 36-37: learned daguerreotyping in Indiana around the 1870s or 1880s, by 1929 he had a "cozy Victorian studio..in the fashionable upper reaches of Fifth Avenue." A caption states that he was a well-known New York City photographer.

GEH Bio File: W. M. Hollinger exhibited in 1898 show of Camera Club of New York.  Mentioned in Kate Davis,"Camera Notes: Indices" active in New York.
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