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CDV -Photo of woman in full dress...unusual signed on back...."T. Lilienthal, 102 Poydras" (ST., New Orleans, Louisiana) Theodore Lilienthal [1829-1894], advertised the city's post-Civil War recovery through photographs presented at the Paris Exposition as well as to Napoleon III. Lilienthal also promoted New Orleans to northern investors in 1873 through a book of photographs. Lilienthal, considered one of New Orleans's most successful photographers, later involved himself in spreading the truth about anti-Semitism in the photography field by offering to distribute, for free, an article criticizing that practice" [Pollack, Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South, Chapter 3]. Theodore Lilienthal, New Orleans. Lilienthal's career began in New Orleans with city business directories showing that he was active as a daguerrian artist from 1857-1861. He remained active throughout the Civil War and produced quality images for both Southern and Northern patrons. By 1867, his work so well respected that New Orleans city council commissioned him to produce a photographic study of the city. "Part of the first generation of photographers in New Orleans, Theodore Lilienthal was the city's most successful nineteenth-century photographic entrepreneur. At the height of his commercial success, from 1875 to 1885, he operated one of the largest studios in the South, and was recognized as a pioneer of new photographic processes. His work as a portraitist and view maker was unsurpassed in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras" [web site of 64parishes, article on Lilienthal]. Lilienthal , Theodore ...son of Max & Clara Lilienthal (both buried in Jewish Cemetary N.O.)...listed on Ship's record from Germany to N.O.....note on common Google search he is not listed as a son. Research by Laura Eckstein, Phd candidate at U of P..."The image is of the manifest from Bremen of the Lilienthal family. Shows a young (27) Theo Lilienthal coming to New Orleans from Bremen with parents (Clara and M.W. (Marx)) and siblings.The manifest connects Theo Lilienthal to his parents. Parents are Jewish and buried (for sure mother) in Jewish cemetery per cemetery records."

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Arc.MS.56, Box 20, Folder 3