Item no. P798 (cover)
Type: cover
Country: France
Date of use:
Business stationery (cover) used by the company M. BAUCHET & Cie. in Rueil Malmaison (France), offering photographic plates, papers and films. The letter (invoice) was addressed to Monsieur L. Clergeau (1877 – 1964), clock-maker and photographer in Pont-Levoy (aka Pontlevoy, France). During the years 1902 – 1936 he, later accompanied by his daughter Marcelle (1903 – 1984), took over ten thousand photographs picturing daily life of people living in the village Pontlevoy and in other places. He is considered pioneer of French sociological photography and his photographs were published in form of postcards and also in a book “A village in France”.
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