Portrait of Susanne Kuhn - Cyanotype, 1893 *New Information

I believe this cyanotype may be a portrait of Mrs. Kühn from the "Sunlight and Darkroom" Album.

 

 

Since the title page was in German we naturally believed that the album was made in Germany. I did notice that one view was a site that is very familiar, the monument on the top of Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. Closer examination showed that hotels pictured were also in Edinburgh and a cemetery had English inscriptions. Did Wilhelm Kühn take a trip to Scotland? I could find no information about Kühn and assumed I would never know. Several years passed before I tried again. After checking dozens of Google entries for other Wilhelm Kühns I finally found him on a Scottish genealogy site! Someone from Germany wrote looking for information on relatives who had lived in Scotland. The answer was as follows:

 

1901 Census Scotland

 

Wilhelm Kühn 44, Shopkeeper Picture Frame Maker Printseller & Artist's Colourman, b. German Sreb, Germany

Susanne Kühn 41, b. German Sreb, Germany

Bertha Kühn 8, b. Edinburgh

Luise Kühn 5, b. Edinburgh

Lizzie Campbell 15, servant

 

Address: The Linden Craigcrook Rd, Crammond, Midlothian

 

This has to be our Wilhelm Kühn! The new baby in the photographs must be Bertha who would have been born in 1893 when the album was produced. Wilhelm profession seems to fit really well with the artist/photographer who produced this album.

 

I love to put a name to the mother and baby!

 

Done