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Alary & Geiser (Algerian photographers, founded 1855)
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Note: Mme Julie Geiser, a widow who had lost her husband soon after their family emigrated from Switzerland to Algeria in 1850, started - or perhaps took over at the death of her husband - a photography business in the early to mid-1850s, going into partnership with Jean-Baptiste Antoine Alary in 1855, a framer turned photographer who had previously been associated with, and was possibly the student of, daguerreotypist Louis Delemotte. After Alary’s death, apparently in or about 1867, the firm appears to have been run by Mme Geiser’s three sons (Jean Théophile, James and Jean) and there are CDV backs that attest to this. Jean Théophile died in 1868 and James in 1872. Jean, the only remaining son, had his studio on rue Bab Azoun from 1874-1875 and the firm continued till to Jean Geiser's death in 1923, when A. Jouve bought the company for "une bouchée de pain". |
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(Algerian photographers, founded 1855) ..... [VP Preferred]
(photographers) ..... [IMJ]
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