Sarah Venning Holden

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

Family in the Cold Funland Montreal

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

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.

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

Maud Clark at the Reflex Studio, Wellington, New Zealand

Reflex Studio, 73 Manners St., Wellington, New Zealand
Postcard from the Clark / Lett Family Collection
Courtesy: Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.

"Reflex Photography.
The latest novelty in up-to-date Photography will shortly be seen at the REFLEX STUDIO, 73, Manners-street (under Everybody's), Wellington. SEE YOURSELF AS OTHERS SEE YOU.
Five Positions at one Sitting. Prize: 3 post cards. 2s 6d or 9s dozen."
Advertisement in: Wellington Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 114, 14 May 1918, Page 5, Column 5  

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

Alice Adelaide

Myers Cope Co., 1521 & 1635 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.
Post Card with stamp box: ARTURA
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

we all like G-E LAMPS

Polaroid Photo mounted into a folder as "A friendly reminder..."

National Food Distributors Association Convention
August 12-15, 1957; Chicago, Illinois
Lamp Division General Electric
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

In the upper left and right corner of the photo the smiling photographer ist reflected in the mirrors.

The Polaroid camera seems to be a Model 110 'Pathfinder'.


Does anybody know more about this event or about the photographer?

Feather Hat - Dittrich Studios

The Dittrich Studios, 1107 Boardwalk, Atlantiv City
Post card with stamp box: CyKo
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Photo-Multigraph Bostwick Studio

Bostwick Studio, Jacques D. Bancker, N° 98 Sixth Ave., New York
"This Photo-Multigraph not to be copied or reproduced in any form. Photographers are cautioned not to use this process without proper authority under penalty of the law. Duplicates on Application."
Dated with a date stamp: Jan 8 - 1908
Exceptional dimensions: Card 12,0 x 18,8 cm, Photo 8,3 x 15,5 cm
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

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.

The Five Headed Multitude

The Orpheum Photo Studio
174 & 176 State St., opposite Palmer House, Chicago.
Post Card with stamp box: AZO, four triangles up
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

New Orleans - Photo Novelty Studio

Photo Novelty Studio, 505 Canal St., New Orleans, La.
Post Card with stamp box: AZO, four triangles up
"12 duplicates of this photograph will be mailed to any address by sending this picture, which will be returned, and $1.00 to PHOTO NOVELTY STUDIO, 505 Canal St., New Orleans, La."
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Say Cheese or Show Teeth

G. Dobkins Studio, 1605 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.
'Duplicates can be abtained by ordering this number___ 3399'
Post Card with stamp box: EKC
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Pretty Woman - possibly from Riga

Collection Bill V. Vrantsidis, Toronto

All are all smiles

Made by Chatelein, 117 S. Burdick, Kalamazoo
Post Card with stamp box: AZO four arrows up
Collection James McManus

Carmen from Madrid

Photos Novelty, Preciados 18
Carte Postale
Collection James McManus
" Srta. Leonor Rico: Para que tengas un pequeño recuerdo de cuando me pusieron el gorro, te dedica esta fachita tu buena amiga: Carmen Permuy, Madrid 15-4-914"
Miss Leonor Rico: For you to have a little souvenir of when they put me the hat in, I am dedicating to you this a bit messy image of mine. Your very good friend: Carmen Permuy, Madrid 15-4-914

Lucien Gaulard - Marseille

Carte Postale with the photographers French copyright blindstamp in the lower left corner: L. GAULARD. PHOT. / 18.RUE NOAILLES . MARSEILLE / BREVETÉ S.D.G.D., Paper: R. Guilleminot, Boespflug et Cie - Paris
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo


Backside of a CDV. Photographer:
Lucien Gaulard, Officier de l'Instruction Publique

Reader's Circle

Postcard with stamp box: ARTURA
Collection Lars Blunck

Unidentified man with hat

Broadway Photo Shop, 1591 Broadway, N.Y.
Post card with stamp box: AZO, four triangles up
Collection Lars Blunck