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255 - SACRE-SMITS, Achille “Souvenir” in memory of the Belgian photographer Edouard Beernaert: portrait and speech. Ghent, January 23, 1890. Carbon print, Boudoir format (21 x 13 cm), photographer’s credit on the reverse (Achille Sacré-Smits/Ghent), incl. a printed “speech delivered at the funeral of Edouard Beernaert, who died in Ghent on January 23, 1890” (17 p.). Photograph mounted in a Balsane cover with a chagrin finish, silver-embossed title, and double decorative border (worn, yellowed printed paper). Print in good condition. A posthumous tribute dedicated to Edouard Beernaert (1844–1890), who founded the Beernaert Dry Plate company—the first mechanized factory for gelatin bromide dry plates—in 1880. Achille Sacré-Smits (1857–1897) was the younger brother of Edouard Sacré-Smits, who was said to be the successor to Beernaert Frères after François Michel, and served as the general agent in Belgium for “Plaques Photographiques Beernaert.” Speech by A. Goderus and A. Verschaffelt. Ref. Leo Baekeland and Edward Beernaert, in *Focus on Photography: Photography in Ghent, from 1839 to 1940*, pp. 189–204.
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SACRE-SMITS, Achille “Souvenir” in memory of the Belgian photographer Edouard Beernaert: portrait and speech. Ghent, January 23, 1890. Carbon print, Boudoir format (21 x 13 cm), photographer’s credit on the reverse (Achille Sacré-Smits/Ghent), incl. a printed “speech delivered at the funeral of Edouard Beernaert, who died in Ghent on January 23, 1890” (17 p.). Photograph mounted in a Balsane cover with a chagrin finish, silver-embossed title, and double decorative border (worn, yellowed printed paper). Print in good condition. A posthumous tribute dedicated to Edouard Beernaert (1844–1890), who founded the Beernaert Dry Plate company—the first mechanized factory for gelatin bromide dry plates—in 1880. Achille Sacré-Smits (1857–1897) was the younger brother of Edouard Sacré-Smits, who was said to be the successor to Beernaert Frères after François Michel, and served as the general agent in Belgium for “Plaques Photographiques Beernaert.” Speech by A. Goderus and A. Verschaffelt. Ref. Leo Baekeland and Edward Beernaert, in *Focus on Photography: Photography in Ghent, from 1839 to 1940*, pp. 189–204.
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