Crew of Battleship Massachusetts - And Her Two 8" Guns

John Fillis Jarvis (November 6, 1849 – January 22, 1931) was an English-American photographer who was active in Washington, D.C. He is best known for his stereoscopic images, which were popular in the late 19th century.

Jarvis was born in Melksham, England, in 1849. He immigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled in Washington, D.C. He opened his own photography studio in 1871

Jarvis experimented with stereography in the early 1870s. He issued a set of stereoscopic images of the White House in 1874. In the 1880s, he collaborated with Elmer and Bert Underwood, who built a company called Underwood & Underwood that became a national distributor of stereoviews. Jarvis produced for Underwood brothers multiple stereoscopic images of the United States, Mexico, Algeria, India, and Palestine.

Jarvis's stereoscopic images were praised for their realism and detail. He was a member of the Photographic Society of Washington, D.C., and he served as its president from 1883 to 1884.

Jarvis retired from photography in 1911. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1931.

Jarvis's work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress.

Photographer: J F Jarvis
Dated: 1898
Subject: United States Navy
Medium: Stereoview
Provenance: Hill House
Condition Report Very Good

Subject References: Stereoview Stereoviews Stereo View Card Stereocards Stereocard 168BX