Emil Schrappen, St. Louis, Missouri

Emil Schrappen was the grandfather of Christine Puchalla who found this postcard in her family papers and sent the image to me.

Alex Wnukowski

Found in the family papers of Lee J. Pryor. More information to come.

Poker - all five all in

Myers-Cope Co., 1521 & 1635 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.
Postcard, Atlantic City Souvenir, Stampbox: ARTURA
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Comunidade da Primeira Comunhão

Photography by H. Raffaelli, Sao Paulo, late 1930ies
Size 17,5 x 23,0 cm, hand tinted lips and background
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

This image gives the idea of the First Holy Communion an interesting twist. What about the first communion with yourself as an other?
She is trying hard not to look at her mirror images by looking into that book which will fix her identity.

There is a photographers blind stamp in the lower right corner:

I read: "H Raffaelli / S PAULO". But I could not find any information about this photographer. Perhaps the name is Roffaells, or Poffaelli, or Taffaelli or the town is not Sao Paulo in Brazil. If you have any information or other photos like this please contact me.

Etienne de Lassus Saint-Geniès (1887-1979)

Photographer Lucien Gaulard, Marseille
Postcard (Carte Postale) with the photographers French copyright blindstamp in the lower right corner: L. GAULARD. PHOT. /
18.RUE NOAILLES . MARSEILLE / BREVETÉ S.D.G.D.
The sitter Etienne de Lassus Saint-Geniès was, at that time, Lieutenant in a cavalry regiment (Dragons). He served in Macedonia, in the marshes of the Vardar, near Salonique. The photo has been taken during the last days of October 1915.
For more information click here: Etienne de Lassus Saint-Geniès
Private Collection, France

Proof Reading Team at Work

Myers Cope Co., 1521 & 1635 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

UNITED STATES PHARMACOPŒIAL CONVENTION

"Who Will be Chairman of the U. S. P. Committe of Revision? - This was the question some months ago, but at the Washington Convention, May 10, 1910, the only chairman to be seen was Joseph Price Remington. Some saw one side of him and some another, but all recognized him as the man to succeed himself as chairman."
Meyer Brothers Druggist, Vol. 31, 1910, p.197

 "In the Group of Prominent Pharmacists seated around the table in the above picture, we have, reading from left to right: 1. Chairman Board of Trustees, U. S. P. C.  2. Chairman, Council, A. Ph. A.  3. Professor, Pittsburg College of Pharmacy.  4. Editor, Midland Druggist.  5. Ex-president Ohio Ph. A.  They can all be reached by addressing Dr. James Hartley Beal, Scio, O."
Meyer Brothers Druggist, Vol. 31, 1910, p.242

"WHO 'THEY' ARE: Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, president of the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (1); president American Therapeutic Society (2); president Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. (3); vice-president Society of Chemical Industry of England (4); and chairman Board of Food and Drug Inspection, Department of Agriculture, U.S. Goverment (5)."
Meyer Brothers Druggist, Vol. 31, 1910, p.277

"He Watches the Money Bags From all Sides: Samuel L. Hilton, treasurer of the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention, is also secretary of the District of Columbia Board of Pharmacy, a member of the Board of Examiners of the National College of Pharmacy, president of the local branch of the A. Ph. A. and proprietor of a prosperous retail pharmacy. He, however, manages to watch from all sides the various interests entrusted to him."
Meyer Brothers Druggist, Vol. 31, 1910, p.340

Smokers Club at Bostwick Studio

Bostwick Studio, Jacques D. Bancker, 98 Sixth Ave., New York
Photo 7,9 x 15,4 cm, Card 13,4 x 18,8 cm 
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo
The smoke from the cigar has not been photographed but afterwards retouched into the negativ.

Foto Franco - Havana, Cuba

Foto Franco, Monte 49½, Habana, Cuba
Size: 5,6 x 12,3 cm

Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Enrico Caruso 1916

Myers-Cope Co., Atlantic City