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Ernest Crandall was originally from Rutland, Vt., where he was a reporter and photographer for The Rutland Herald. In 1905, he moved to Washington where he lived and worked for the rest of his life.

Although Crandall spent 35 years as a photographer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he is best-known for his iconic photographs of Washington, DC. During that time, he was also the official photographer for the Carnegie Institute’s archaeological expeditions to Yucatan, Mexico to study the ruins of Mayan temples (1925-1927), and he enjoyed a long-running working relationship with the Daughters of the American Revolution to photograph and publish pictures of historic interiors.

Aside from his agricultural photos, Crandall’s work appeared regularly in many reputable magazines and journals, most-frequently, The American Monthly Magazine, published by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Other magazines that published his work include Country Life, Farmer’s Bulletin , the American Annual of Photography, and National Geographic. Additional publications to include photographs by Crandall include the book Washington, The Nations’s Capital, the Inventory of Seeds and Plants Imported by the Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction , and the contemporary book Monument Wars.

Crandall won several awards for his photographs, including third place in a competition by the American Forestry Association to find the most beautiful photograph of an American tree, and third prize in the Wanamaker Competition, which was judged by Alfred Steiglitz and included 1400 submissions.

Aside from his photography, Crandall was active in civic service. He was a founding member and Treasurer of the Federal Photographers Society, and the Postal Photographic Club , and was a member of the Art Club of Washington.

Ernest L. Crandall has work in many prominent collections today, including the the New York Public Library, the Latin American Library Photographic Archive , Tulane University , the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. , and the Library of Congress.

Benjamen83 (talk) 04:24, 18 September 2011 (UTC)