Sarah Venning Holden

This multi-faceted portrait is part of the Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning families collection. Library Company of Philadelphia. new

Frederic and Francis Almy (twins) by O. A. Taft

Otis A. Taft, 272 Main Streeet, Buffalo, NY.
"Multiple view portrait of an unidentified man", 4.25 x 6.5 inches, 1896. Courtesy of Schlesinger Library.

A second print of the same image on a different cabinet card from the Taft studio was sold at Ebay in December 2014. This cabinet photo has an inscription on the back saying that the sitters are the twins Frederic and Francis Almy. The photograph is dated: “December, 1897”.

The image is in fact a montage of two different photo-multigraphs of the two brothers into one print. There is an article on the photographer Otis A. Taft in: The Industries of Buffalo, Elstner Publishing Company, Buffalo 1887, p. 101:

O. A. TAFT, Artist Photographer – No. 272 Main St., near Swan.
   Mr.Taft is a rarely accomplished and successful photographer, who for twenty-eight years has devoted his native talent and energy to the uninterrupted study and pursuit of his profession in all of its higher branches, the result being the achievement of a reputation second to that of no artist legitimately engaged in photography west of New York City. Mr. Taft was born in Vermont, and has had practical experience in his vocation in three States, thus acquiring a knowledge of men and women and their tastes which enables him to give a degree of satisfaction in pose, style and general effect seldom attained by photographers as a class.
   Mr. Taft has resided and labored at his profession in Buffalo since 1881. In 1882 he first occupied his present location, where he has the third and fourth floors and employs a capable force of assistants, his parlors and operating rooms being models of neatness and convenience. He has a large and steadily increasing circle of desirable patrons in the city and surrounding country, and may be fairly classed as a successful business man as well as artist. His specialties embrace all the higher grades of portrait photography, bromide enlargements, crayon portraits, and the most perfect and beautiful work in all branches. A visit to his gallery and studio will well repay lovers of art and admirers of the beautiful, whether they desire to sit for their own counterfeit presentments or merely to profitably and pleasantly while away an hour or two of leisure time.
   The view of Main street from the windows is enlivening, and persons out shopping find this a delightful lounge, where they can rest as they examine the works of art. Teachers and others find it a pleasant way of passing an hour or two of their leisure time.

Hartley's Multigraph Portraits, Chicago

Hartley's Portraits, 309 W. Madison St., Chicago
Multigraph, 12,7 x 15,5 cm, about 1894
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Alice through the looking-glass - mirror images

Photographer: F. E. Musser, 16 N. Third Street, Harrisburg
Cabinet Card (detail) about 1895
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Superior Cloth Headwear - The Argyle

Advertisement for hats and caps by: I. H. Dinner, Manufacturer of Superior Cloth Headwear, 117 Summer Street, Boston,
in: The Hatter, Vol. 24, No. 5, Dec. 1894, Holiday Number, p. 83,
and Vol. 24, No.6, Jan. 1895, p. 101 
The Photo-Multigraph was probably made by F. F. Dunshee & A. E. Hill. Their Studio at 22 Winter Street in Boston was nearby.
Winter Street is the extension of the Summer Street.

The Aunts Camille

Francesco Benvenuti (1863-1919), Place S. Marco N. 6, Florence, Italy
Portraits of Camille (detail), ca. 1895 
Raccolte Museali Fratelli Alinari (RMFA)-collezione Palazzoli, Firenze
Alinari Archives, Code PDC-F-000273-0000
Bottom right a dedication signed "Le zie Camille" (The Aunts Camille)

Etablissement Artistique Photographique / Anglais Italien /
de F. BENVENUTI / Place S. Marco N. 6, rez-de-chaussée / Florence / Portraits, Vues, Intérieurs et Agrandissements / Photographies au charbon, au Platine et sur soie / Spécialité de photographies sur Porcelaine, Coloriées etc. / on parle anglais

Jackson's Spectregraph Photos

Bradford D. Jackson, 103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Portrait of Frances Orpha Magher at the age of 5-6
Cabinet Card, ca. 1895
"JACKSON'S Spectregraph Photos.
The Most Attractive Style of Portrait ever introduced.
Five different pictures without changing the position.
All made at one sitting."
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

B.D. Jackson (ca.1850-1937) was born in Sullivan, Ohio; the "B" stood for Bradford, and the "D" came from his nickname Dan. He began his career as a portrait photographer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1901, in search of a better climate, he moved to Pomona, California where he purchased a portrait studio. In addition to portrait work, he began photographing the surrounding towns and the mountains and beaches of Southern California. Jackson lived and worked at various times in Pomona, Los Angeles,Pasadena, Hollywood, La Canada, Glendora, La Crescenta, and Glendale, all of which figure in his work. Eventually he gave up the portrait aspect of the business and concentrated on landscape views for the production of stereographs and postcards.
The B. D. Jackson Collection of Negatives and Photographs ist archived at the the Huntington Library.

B. D. Jackson used the portrait of Frances O. Magher for advertisement. He printed a rasterized photo on a note which he glued onto the back of other cabinet card portraits he made. The ad says: “Five different Pictures all taken at one time without changing the position”.

Bear Chief - Photo-Multigraph

"Bear Chief, Photo-multigraph (of five positions at one sitting)
by Mr. J. D. Bancker, No. 98 Sixth Avenue, New York"
Reproduction in: Forest and Stream, Vol. 46, No. 13, March 28, 1896, p. 251

The Photograph of the Future

F.F Dunshee & A. E. Hill, 22 Winter St., Boston
Two prints of the same Photo-Multigraph came together again.
Handwriting on the back: WW Wilder, Suffolk
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

And here an amazing article from 1894:

The Photograph of the Future.
“A photograph that flatters will soon be a thing of the past,” said a photographer the other day. “It will be impossible to make our faces appear to the most advantage by a clever pose, for the latest innovation in photography, the multiphotograph, which is destined to become the photographic portrait of the future, will reveal all our defects and crudities. The great study which young women give their faces, to find out in which position – side, three-quarter or full face – they look the best, will all be put to naught, for the multiphotograph will take them in all these positions and others as well.
“The process makes it possible to obtain a perfect likeness of a person, as one is able to see the face and head in all possible positions and can thus get all the characteristics. This new effect is obtained by mirrors being placed at certain angles, When a person stands in front of the glasses, his likeness is reflected from 6 to 12 times, according to the arrangement of the mirrors, each image being in a different position, so that the same effect is obtained that would be secured if you were to walk around a person, viewing him from all sides and points.
“The operator photographs the subject and the reflections in the mirrors. The result is the multiphotograph. I think it is destined to become the photograph of the future, as it is the only thing that will give you a likeness of a person as seen from all sides. Art in this case must succumb to nature, and the instruction that is too frequently given the photographer, ‘Make me as pretty as you can,’ will have to be done away with.” – Pittsburg Dispatch.
In: Grand Forks Daily Herald, June 16, 1894, Issue 194, Page 4.

Enos P. Baker 1897

Reproduction of a Photo-Multigraph in:
Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography, From Dry-Plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Published in 1999 by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, p.25, fig.19
"J.P. Blessing & Co., Photo-Multigraph of Enos P. Baker, 1897"
The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Ranger & Whitmore

Ranger & Whitmore, 30 E. Main Street, Rochester, N.Y.
Provenience: The Thanatos Archive
Collection: Heinz-Werner Lawo

Greek Fisherman's Cap

Tintype
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Charles Dana Lewis

Bostwick, New York
Collection: National Library of Medicine (IHM)

Dunshee & Hill

F.F. Dunshee & A.E. Hill, 22 Winter St., Boston
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Alter Ego - C. A. Hughes

Reproduction of a tintype in:

Heinz K. Henisch, The Photographic Experience, 1839-1914, Images and Attitudes, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1994, p.43, fig.2-26

Reproduction of a Multiphotograph

MULTIPHOTOGRAPHY.
A very pretty system of photography, enabling us to see ourselves as others see us, and affording opportunity for much range in the art of posing, is the multiphotograph. If an image is placed in front of two mirrors inclined to each other at an angle of 90°, three images will be produced in the mirror; at 60°, five images will be produced; and at 45° seven images; and if the mirrors are parallel, theoretically an infinite number of images will result.
In the process of photography which we illustrate advantage is taken of this to produce at one exposure a number of different views of the same subject. The person to be photographed sits with the back to the instrument, while in front of the face are two mirrors, set at the desired angle to each other, their inner edges touching. In the case illustrated these mirrors are inclined at an angle of 72°. Four images are produced. The exposure is made, and on the developed negative appear not only the back view of the subject, but also the four reflected images in profile and different three-quarter positions. The courses taken by the rays of light are determined by the law that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. In the diagram we have traced the rays of light on their course from subject to mirror and back to the camera, giving a good idea of the relation of the images to the subject and of the five images to the focal plane, the virtual position of the images being further from the instrument than is the subject proper.
The gallery equipment for this class of work is shown in one of the views, while the appearance presented by a full length figure with the aid of the mirrors is shown in another cut. A very interesting illustration of what can be done by this process is presented by the reproduction of a photograph actually taken, where the interesting expression and marked characteristics of the face serve to bring into strong prominence the utility of this process for representing the human face.
It is obvious that simple as the process and idea appear, it might have many uses in the study of other forms of nature.

In: Scientific American, October 6, 1894, p.216

Unknown woman - tintype

Tintype (retouched detail), 12,4 x 8,8 cm

Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Abraham J. Demarest

Collection Hoboken Historical Photographs at Hoboken Public Library

http://mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/dlr/TMP/rutgers-lib_13279-DS3.jpeg

Unidentified man in a studio

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Devision,

Washington, D.C., Digital ID: cph 3c36902

Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-136902

Unknown man

H.E. Bosworth, Artistic Photographer, Springfield, Mass.
Cabinet Card from the Collection Thurman F. 'Jack' Naylor
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo