A really rare find and from the century before last.

An old photograph with a child's picture in a hand-carved wooden frame. Nobody knew that behind the child's picture there was a second picture with a handsome young man. This picture is probably even older.

An ideal gift for collectors of old photographs or old picture frames. But even as a room decoration on the wall, this picture exudes a pleasant atmosphere from times long past.

On the back of the first picture, the photo studio is noted and probably the name of the child shown in the photo. I did not take out the second photo because I was afraid of damaging it. Perhaps there is also interesting information on the back of it.

The name of the photo studio was "Fotografischer Glassalon v. Moser".
The photo studio was in Vienna, in what is now the 21st district of Vienna. At that time (1894), Floridsdorf was not yet part of Vienna and was an independent municipality. But not a city. Floridsdorf was not incorporated into Vienna until 1904. The house, on the ground floor of which the photo studio was located, survived both world wars. In the last picture you can see what the house looks like today - 130 years later.

On the back of the photo - practically as a company logo - the 3 heads of the inventors of photography are still printed.

Louis Daguerre: He was a French artist and inventor who became known in the 19th century for developing the daguerreotype, an early photographic process. The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process and was widely used from the late 1830s to the 1860s.

Nicéphore Niépce: He was a French inventor known for his pioneering work in the field of photography. Together with Louis Daguerre, he developed the daguerreotype, one of the first processes for producing photographic images. Nicéphore Niépce succeeded in producing the first permanent photographic image in 1826, known as "heliography".

William Henry Fox Talbot: he was a British scientist and inventor known for his work in the field of photography. Talbot developed his own photographic process known as the calotype. Unlike the daguerreotype, which produced a single image on a silvered copper plate, the calotype made it possible to produce negatives from which several positive copies could be printed.

The condition of the picture frame and the 2 photographs is flawless. There is an eyelet on the back of the picture frame that can be used to attach the picture to the wall. The lid on the back of the picture frame is still attached with small nails hammered in.

Materials: paper, cardboard, wood, metal
Height: 17.3 cm
Width: 14 cm
Depth: 1.8 cm
Production period: 1890.1899