Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Jay Te Winburn, Photographer (1889-1965)

A mural in a bank in Montclair, New Jersey caught my eye. It depicts a parade on Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair.


From a storefront hung a sign for Jay Te Winburn, Portrait Photographer.

Fourteen years ago I researched this person. I inherited a photo taken by him.


Imprint of photographer Jay Te Winburn

I do not know the subject of the portrait. She appears to be a young woman with short, waved hair, wearing pearls. Perhaps the time period was the 1920s.

Current view of area depicted in mural

Based on addresses used by National Grocery Company and Winburn's studio, I would place this view from Bloomfield Avenue looking west at Maple Place.

Since writing the original article, the burial place of Jay Te Winburn was entered on Find A Grave. He died in 1965 and was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York.