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Portrait of an unidentified man by Joan Springer

albumen print on cardboard, carte de visite;

Joan Springer (itinerant, Wallachia, possibly Turnu Severin), ca. 1865;

acquired from a dealer in Ploiești, 2016;

Theodor E. Ulieriu-Rostás collection. Accession number: cdv.2016.28

 

Largely undocumented itinerant photographer. Probably active in Wallachia in the mid-1860s, one CDV of his connected to the town of Turnu Severin on the Danube. Possibly the same person as the J. Springer active in Silesia (Freiwaldau, Gräfenberg & Karlsbrunn) in the later 1860s and early 1870s.

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Uploaded on January 11, 2020