Swart, John Simeon

JOHN SIMEON SWART (Active in Petaluma by June 1880) Swart was a partner in the “Miltz & Swart’s San Francisco Gallery,” 180 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa between 1877 and 1880. It is known he was working in Petaluma by June 1880 and by 1886 opened a studio on Broad Street in Nevada City, California. In 1895 he worked as a photojournalist for The San Francisco Call and the Pacific Coast News. Mautz, pg. 146.

Bibliography: Carl Mautz, Biographies of Western Photographers, A Reference Guide to Photographers Working in the 19th Century American West, Expanded and Revised Edition, 2018, p. 173. https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/about/photographers

Unfortunately, the PHL&M owns no portraits by this important, early photographer.