Photograph (Platinum Print, Cabinet Format) of Augustus Stroh, May 1896 | |||||||||||
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| Inventory Number: | 15945 | ||||||||||
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| Persons: |
John Matthias Augustus Stroh (Subject) | ||||||||||
| Date Created: | May 1896 | ||||||||||
| Accession Number: | 1949-10 | ||||||||||
| Brief Description: | Platinum print mounted on grey card, cabinet format. Portrait of Augustus Stroh, seated half length, turned slightly to left but looking front, wearing a close-fitting cap. No photographer's name; Stroh was a photographer himself (see 20919) so it could be a self-portrait. John Matthias Augustus Stroh (1828-1914) settled in London in 1851, and adapted his training as a watchmaker to become a scientific instrument maker of a new kind, making electrical and telegraph apparatus, inventing the Stroh violin (an electrical recording violin), and constructing the first phonograph to be made in Britain. | ||||||||||
| Primary Inscriptions: | Identifying inscription and date on back of mount. | ||||||||||
| Provenance: | Presented by the Executors of G. H. Gabb in 1949. | ||||||||||
| Collection Group: | Gabb Collection | ||||||||||
| Material(s): |
Paper Card | ||||||||||
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