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Underwood, Elmer Death News_EveningStar 19470819_4

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Elmer Underwood- Death Ends Career, News Photo Pioneer, St Petersburg, FL
Evening star
Washington, District of Columbia •
Tue, Aug 19, 1947 p4
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• Death Ends Career Of Elmer Underwood, News Photo Pioneer
By the Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug. 19. -Elmer Underwood, 87, a pioneer in development of news pictures and former co-owner of the internationally known photographers' firm of Underwood & Underwood, died at his home here Sunday.
Mr. Underwood was credited by his associates with introducing the first news pictures in 1897 & stereoscopic record of the GrecoTurkish war. He encountered opposition to publication of photographs, but finally persuaded the illustrated London News to publish the war pictures.
As a partner in Underwood & Underwood, which he had founded wirh his brother, the late Bert Underwood, at Ottawa, Kans., in 1882, Elmer Underwood traveled throughout the world taking photographs.
He photographed royalty and other famous personalities as well as major news events. Among his well known pictures was the last photograph ever taken of Henrik Ibsen, the famous dramatist.
Underwood & Underwood moved from Kansas to Baltimore, then went to New York about 50 years ago. Elmer Underwood retired in 1925 and has lived here several years.
Mr. Underwood is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jane Boardman Underwood, who was on a visit in North Carolina when he died: three sons,
- C. Thomas Underwood of New Canaan, Conn., head of Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios in New York;
- Orland Underwood of Oklahoma City, Okla., and
- John Underwood of Wyoming: and daughter, Mrs. Ruth La Rue of Chicago..

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