[W&B] Photo Identification Help

[Benjamin Ehrman]

On 2/21/07 Rob McElroy wrote:


>Don't keep us in suspense too long.


I appreciate the opinions that pretty much confirm what I intellectually
believed, but emotionally didn't want to believe.  I "want" them to be the same
person.

The engraving is of August Semmendinger.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/woodcameras/ASemmendinger2.jpg

The photo was discovered in the plate holder of a Semmendinger stereo camera
(patent model) that's in the Smithsonian collection.  

I have been in contact with one his great-grandchildren off and on for a couple
of years who has been trying to find out any information on him.  The sad part
is that they have no photographs of A. Semmendinger.  Seems kind of odd, doesn't
it, for someone that was in the photographic industry.

Best,
Ben