Photographer???? Need help

[Marckus99]

This is a photo of Harry Moran of the Buffalo Feds, 1914.
It is pasted unto a cabinet or stock with no credit or stampings.
It is approx. 5 X 7.

Any guess as to whose work it was?

Thx in advance.

Mark

[HexsHeroes]

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Very cool photo. Would look great displayed with a Moran signed personal check or 3x5.

[prewarsports]

It is probably not a known photographer, most of them took photos for a purpose and not necessarily to sell the photos themselves and cabinet backings were an expense they usually did not need to undertake because of the volume they dealt with. Individuals that prized a photograph would pay the extra to have the photographer mount them for display and to keep them flat (old photos curl a lot because they are so thin). I would bet it was mounted after the photo was made and developed for preservation and not by the photographer himself but at the same time period, probably by the player himself or by his family.

Rhys

[drc]

There are legitimate anonymous cabinets, cdvs, etc. They didn't always come with a name attached.

Also, news photos were sometimes attached to a board during their use by the newspaper or magazine. Can look cabinet-style.

[prewarsports]

DRC, agreed. This is an anonymous cabinet no doubt, and sometimes photographers would do this (more often than not) because having their name embossed was expensive too. There are more blank mounts like this out there than ones that are embossed with a photographers name. My philosophy is that if you were say Charles Conlon and developed photos for use in publication etc., why would you choose to mount a photo to board and undertake a needless expense when a stamp would do, and also make sending the photos through the mail to the buyer cheaper? Also, the type of photographic process used by the news service photographer in the 1910's was not the type that needed a stiff back to prevent damage like the photography styles of the previous decades.

This is a true cabinet and not something that looks like it was done by a news service after the fact, but at the time by an anonymous photographer or the player himself. The dark mount and edge wear absolutely point to a vintage 1910's cabinet backing and not something that a news service would have used afterwards.