Inscribed & Signed Card of A.Thiébaut. 1900 Paris Expo

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An Advertising Card of  French Photographer / Printer A. Thiébaut

Signed and Inscribed to Philadelphia Publisher Robert Barrie

During the 1900 Paris Exposition

Card Size: 78 x 117 mm (3-1/16 x 4-5/8 inches)

French Language

Above: Advertising Card for A. Thiébaut of Paris

Advertising Photographic Reproductions for Museums, Libraries, etc.

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(References to the Greek Pavillion, Bretagne / Brittany, etc.)

Above:  The Reverse Side of the Card is Signed and Inscribed to Philadelphia Publisher Robert Barrie...

...During the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris

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This advertising card presents the professional services of A. Thiébaut, a French photographer / printer in Paris.

I am not certain of the exact identity of this A Thiebaut, but he apparently is the same Thiébaut who was the French photography pioneer who in 1883 patented a gelatin bromide film paper.

On the card, Thiebault advertises his photographic services: photographic prints, enlarged or reduced in size, for museums, libraries, etc.

From a Scrapbook Assembled by Publisher Robert Barrie of Philadelphia:

This advertising card was in a scrapbook assembled by Philadelphia publisher Robert Barrie in the late 1800s and early 1900s. (The last dated item in the scrapbook is 1937, with most items dated in the first decade of the 1900s.)

Note: I recently offered on Ebay another scrapbook by Robert Barrie, about yachting. I sold that yaching scrapbook complete as I purchased it. The items I offer here comes from a second Robert Barrie scrapbook, whose pages I am selling individually, because of the diversity of items in this second scrapbook. I purchased these scrapbooks at an estate auction here in Pennsylvania.

This Robert Barrie was the son of publisher George Barrie, a Scottish-American immigrant who founded the Philadelphia publishing house Barrie and Sons. George Barrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Here in Philadelphia, George Barrie was first employed by the publisher J. B. Lippincott, before starting his own publishing company in 1873, with the assistance of his sons, this Robert Barrie and George Barrie Jr.

The Barrie publishing house was very successful, and was internationally known as a publisher of fine art works, prints, and books. The Barrie publisher received medals at all the leading exhibitions, including the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the 1889 expo in Paris, in 1893 at Chicago, and in 1900 at Paris.

Robert Barrie was actively involved in the Paris art scene, in the late 1800s, and turn of the century.

As described in a 1904 Who's Who in Pennsylvania: "Of all the Americans now in Paris, few have a better knowledge of the serious side of French life and a higher respect for French art and industry than Mr. Robert Barrie, junior member of the firm of George Barrie and Son publishers, of Philadelphia. Mr. Barrie has made numerous visits to Paris during the past 15 years, some of them extending over six months, and during this time his relations with French artists have been most cordial and extensive."

Robert Barrie assembled this scrapbook to collect items related to his friendship with European and American artists and writers in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Condition: Front side is bright and clean, with no stains or tears. The reverse side of the card, with the hand-written inscription, has some scuffs and spots.  The scuffs on the left side of the card remove a few words of the hand-written inscription.

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