Self-Reflections while in Mourning

Fulton Photo Novelty Shop, 94 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Otto Croy - Ein Frosch tanzt Reigen

Otto Croy, Ein Frosch tanzt Reigen, 1937.
S/W-Abbildung in: Otto Croy, Trickfotos für Jedermann,
Verlag Wilhelm Knapp, Halle a. S., 1937, S. 29.

Circle Dance - Ringelreih

Florencio Bixio y Cia., Buenos Aires
Postcard with stamp box: ARTURA
Blind stamp: F. Bixio y Cia, B. Irigoyen
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Family in the Cold Funland Montreal

Funland Multigraph, 316 St. Lawrence BLVD., Montreal
Three identical Real Photo Post Cards from a family shooting.

Multi-Photo Norman, Paris

Multi-Photo Norman, 30 Place de la Madeleine (derrière l'éclise), Paris
"5 images sur une seule plaque, tout les formats, tout les prix"
Postcard (carte postale), 9,0 x 12,6 cm
Rotogravure: L'Héliogravure Rotative, 6 bis, rue de Viroflay, Paris

José Ara Romeu, Valencia, Spain

J. Ara (José Ara Romeu), Pi y Margall 36, Valencia, Spain
Unidentified woman (No. 201), 1932
8,8 x 13,8 cm, with blind stamp
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

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

In Memoriam Shirley Temple - a lookalike on the phone

Hand-colored photograph by H. Raffaelli, S. Paulo.
late 1930ies
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Dr. Trenkler & Co. Leipzig

Photolithography (63 x 109 mm) on a used and undivided postcard
mailed in France on January 29, 1903
Publisher: Dr. Trenkler Co., Lipsia. "Studi Artistici Serie B No. 4"
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Koncertsalen Odeon

Koncertsalen Odeon, Frederiksberggade 10, København
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

La Casa de las Maravillas Fotográficas

Photo Novelties, Preciados, 16. Madrid, Spain
La Casa de las Maravillas Fotográficas
Tarjeta Postal, 1917, Size: 8,3 x 13,5 cm
"A mi Mamita con un beso de su José Manuel 20-5-917"
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

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.

Proof Reading Team at Work

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

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

Corbit's Studio

Corbit's Studio, 1152 Main Street, Bridgeport, Conn.
Postcard with stampbox: Cyko
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Absolutely Not Buster

Popular Amusement Co., Penny Arcade Photo Gallery,
West Side of 6th, Between Market and Walnut Streets, (St. Louis)
Postcard with stampbox: AZO, four triangles up
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Marlborough Photo Shop - Joseph Meltzer

Marlborough Photo Shop, 1355 Broadway, New York
Post Card with stamp box: AZO, four triangles up
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo
The Marlborough Photo Shop was owned and operated by Joseph Melzer.