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"Still Peeved" Irma O'Dea, Photo by Keedy & Lux. Chicago Daily Tribune, December 30, 1915. The text says: "Mrs. Irma Roche O'Dea, the artist model whose head was used with someone else's body on a calendar advertisement, has decided not to sue the photographers for whom she posed, but the kniting mill comany which put out the calendar instead. The firm of Keedy & Lux, commercial photographers, convinced Mrs. O'Dea that they were in no way responsible for the manner in which the picture was used. Mrs. O'Dea discovered that a body garbed only in underwear had been forged to her head and neck, and used by the knitting mills on a calendar."
30 images have been posted in Slideshow Album 9. Navigate to Screen 2 of the Slideshow Gallery. There was wide variation in source material and original image quality, as represented in the results.
I purchased photograph (print?) by “Tonnesen Sisters” Copyright 1900 of a cute little girl reading a newspaper wearing a bonnet and glasses at a auction a couple years ago. It is marked “Chicago Inter Ocean June 16, 1901,” and also has a mark “MULTI-PLATINUM PRINTS, A.L. SWIFT & CO., CHICAGO.” It was sandwiched between two plates of glass and the photograph’s face is now stuck to the glass. Is there a way to have it safety removed from the glass? Thank you.
Hi Keith,
I really don’t have any expertise in this area. You might want to contact the R.A. Fox Society, http://www.rafoxsociety.com. They are a group of print collectors and I think I recall a feature in their newsletter about such things. Good luck!
Lois
HI,
I RECENTLY BOUGHT A PASTEL PRINT AT AN ESTATE SELL IT IS CALLED, LITTLE BITS OF SUNSHINE SENT DOWN FROM HEAVEN SO BLUE. NUMBER 21589. IT HAS PRINT FROM TONNESEN. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS PRINT. THANKS DAWN
Hi Dawn,\nThanks for writing. I don’t know that title. Is it possible for you to send us an image of the print?\nLois