Le Siècle photographié
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Le Siècle photographié

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Bound volume

J. Bérot

Maker
French

Le Siècle photographié

ca. 1865
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 10 5/8 × 9 1/16 × 1 3/16 in. (27 × 23 × 3 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1972.0295.0001-0041
DescriptionAlbum contains forty one albumen silver print portraits of men, all journalists for Le Siècle, a French daily newspaper published from 1836 to 1932. Album is bound in brown tooled leather with gilt script on front and back covers, and gilt edges.
Inscriptions Printed in gilt, front cover, C: Le Siècle.
Printed in gilt, back cover, C: J. BEROT \ PHOTOGRAPHIE \ DE \ LA PRESSE \ ARTISTIQUE \ PARIS \ 123 RUE MONTMARTRE 123
Inscribed in black ink, white label applied to spine, BC: 05.1 \ 1865
Inscribed in white ink, on spine, BC: 1865
Inscribed in black ink (Cromer's hand) on scalloped-oval label applied to leaf facing title page, verso,TL: Collection \ G.Cromer
Printed in black ink, title page recto, C: Le Siècle \ PHOTOGRAPHIÉ \ PAR \ J. BÉROT \ PEINTRE. \ --- \ PARIS. \ Photographie de la PRESSE ARTISTIQUE, \ 123, Rue Montmartre.
Inscribed in pencil (museum hand) on title page, recto, BC: [186-?] [sic]
Stamped in black ink, title page recto, BL: EASTMAN HISTORICAL \ PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
Inscribed in pencil, title page recto, BC: B-162
Stamped in black ink, title page recto, BR: Cromer Collection
Stamped in red ink, title page recto, BR: IMP / GEH

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