Isaac Augustus Wetherby

This photograph is mis-identified as Wetherby; it is one of his fellow-photographer in Iowa City, Timothy Townsend, who worked about the same time. The photograph may have been taken by Wetherby in Townsend's studio.*
Isaac Augustus Wetherby (1819-1904) or I.A. Wetherbee was an American painter and photographer. He worked in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Iowa. Examples of his work are in the Beverly Historical Society, Massachusetts; Fruitlands Museum; New York Historical Society; and the State Historical Society of Iowa.