[Atelier Merkelbach] Jacob Merkelbach (1877-1942). Mies Merkelbach (1904-1985). Archive

Incl. a.o.: an orig. wooden signpost w. address; a stiff paper letterpress "prijscourant" (Nov. 1920); a board advertisement display; photogr. of the building in which the firm was housed (above Hirsch & Cie at the Leidseplein, finished in 1912); a collection of 12 bronze/ silver tokens; 2 boxes of glass negatives ("Shakespeare, voor Dr. L. Berger"); and 38 orig. photogr., incl. portraits of Mies Merkelbach, the famous (self?)portrait of Jacob Merkelbach and a splendid portrait of "Regisseur Dreyfuss".

Sm. archive of one of the most important Amst. photographic companies of the 20th cent., founded in 1913 by Jacob Merkelbach.