+/- 100 photos.

Various sizes and presentations, mostly cabinet cards, photo postcards and albumen prints, some with ms. notes on verso.

Loose.

Heterogeneous collection of portrayed people showing small and large families, couples, singles, children, etc. posing in front of the camera in a studio or outside. A.o. playing children with their hoops, dolls, small bicycles, rocking horses, doll prams etc. Furthermore (a) photo(s) of: twin girls, daily life tasks, a boy in scout uniform, a family around a "Leuvense stoof" etc. A couple of photos of drawings portraying known people such as Empress Joséphine and Anne of Austria, Madame de Pompadour etc. Among the photographers: George Quevrin, Dupont, Klary, Louvois, Wolff, Tiberghien, Géruzet Frères (Brussels); J. Messiaen (Tournai); E.O. Thiel (Namur); Aug. Heleven, E. Quoidbach, Genthier-Van Broekhoven, J. Dumont (Liège); De Bruyne (Mechelen); H. Schueren (Antwerp); Max Jacops (Bruges); J. Temporel, Jules Henry, Lacroix (Geneva); Hermann, Anthony's, Zulimo Chiesi (Paris); B.&G. Moses (New Orleans)... One cabinet card by Reutlinger (1902, n. 2828) with a studio portrait of a young woman.
Joined: "Chant nuptial, souvenir d'amitié, dédié à Monsieur et Madame Lebbe-Smeets à l'occasion de leur mariage célébré à Maeseyck le 23 juin 1879". Gilt dec. red cloth album, 4to size. With a photo of the couple and a 7 pp.handwritten partition of the "Chant nuptial", dated 1879 and aut. sign. by Emile Mieroo. - 5 framed photos of which 3 heightened and 8 under passe partout of which 5 heightened. A.o. Vittorio Emanuele de Savoie.