| Title |
Dubois, Albert |
| Date |
b. ca. 1831 |
| Description |
Albert DuBois, stepson of prominent French artist and lithographer George DuBois, born about 1831 in France, worked as a lithographer
in Philadelphia ca. 1850-ca. 1852. In 1833, the elder Dubois moved his family to Zweibrucken, Germany where he began his and
his family's career in lithography. In July 1848, the family immigrated again and to New York aboard the Talleyrand from Le
Havre, France.
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By 1850, Albert and George were employed as lithographers in Philadelphia, working with Frederick Kuhl and Frederick Bourquin
on architectural and genre views. They resided briefly in Northern Liberties (Ward 4) and Camden, New Jersey, before the family
relocated to the Boston area by 1853.
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In 1859, the DuBois family resettled in Fall River, Massachusetts, where by 1866, George and his family were the sole owners
of The Fall River Lithographic Company, which created advertising posters, labels, trade cards, fruit boxes, and other ephemera
for local manufacturers. Albert, along with many other Dubois family members, worked for the Fall River Lithographic Company.
He married Bridget (b. ca. 1843) and had four children by 1870.
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The original firm dissolved in 1869, at which time Hugo and Oscar, two of George's sons, established the H. W. Dubois & Company.
Their business specialized in chromolithography until the company ceased operations in 1880.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Dubois, George; Kuhl, Frederick; Bourquin, Frederick |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850, 1870, 1880, 1900 |
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George Dubois Family Collection, American Antiquarian Society |
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Groce & Wallce, 190 |
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Hewes, Lithographs of the Dubois Family, 1850-1865 in Imprint (Spring 2008), 21 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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WWWAA, 969 |
