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| How to . . .
Your guide to researching
your family history |
... be a photograph detective (3)
ROBIN VYRNWY-PIERCE
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In the early days of photography photographers would
just use basic card to put the picture on and then write or stamp
their details on the back but as the cards began to be seen as an
advertising medium they soon needed to be done by a professional printer.
On the back of later cards (and sometimes on the front) you may find
some tiny printed writing, this was the printer of the card and who
supplied the stock to the photographer.
Sometimes they can be put into a date category, athough these can
only be a guideline and you should use other details, they could put
you in the right time period , especially if you match it with a photographer’s
date.
From a reasonably wide collection of carte de visites, from a wide
area it is possible to work out approximate dates for printers, including:
England Bros. London (1885)
B.P.Grimaud, Paris. (1890s)
Samuel Fry & Co (Manuf in Berlin) London. (1890s)
Herrmann & Co., Berlin.
(1884 - 1892)
D Hutinet, Paris. (c.1888)
K Krziwanek, Vienna. (c.1885)
A L Berlin [c.1900]
Oborne (1876 - 1887)
REG G.E.& C (1887 -1895)
Riddle & Couchman, 49 Watling Street, E.C. (c.1870)
Trapp & Münch, Berlin
(1879 - 1895)
Bernhard Wachtl, Wien. (c1894)
A major name in the business was the Printer Marion Imp, Paris &
London.
In 1863-4 A.Marion & Co. Soho published cartes for Southwell Brothers
of Baker Street W. London, and in 1866 produced cartes wholesale for
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