Just an example of the elaborate backs of these 19th-Century photographs. Everything but the date.

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Semi-clear cellophane protective cover for photographs. So far this is the only example I have of a printed, protective flap on a photograph. I assume they were common but were easily torn-off and lost. I even have a precise date, 1904. I think this photograph (see comments) has always been carefully conserved.

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Discovered this description of Forlivesi in a fragment of a book about Luigi Pirandello. I may be mistaken but I imagine that this was written by Pirandello himself: "A chi ama possedere una fotografia che rispecchi fedele il volto e l'anima, che sia viva, belle, parlante, raccomandiamo caldamente e sinceramente lo studio Fotografico diretto da quell'artista paziente e gentile che è Vittorio Forlivesi.
Ogni suo lavoro è un gioiello, è una perfezione: egli sa trovar sempre la posa più giusta e più simpatica della fisonomia, e con le risorse più recenti e più perfette dell'arte riesce ad ottennere delle fotografia artisticamente mirabili."
From: "Ariel: storia d'una rivista pirandelliana" by Alfredo Barbina, Bulzoni, 1984
Forlivesi was active in the 1890's in Rome.
Wish I know exactly what "Fotografia del Macao" means. Did he visit Macao?
Search tag "Forlivesi" in my photostream for other photographs.
Only other photograph I have found by Forlivesi on the internet: www.internetculturale.it/techeMusicali/consultazione/foto...

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Wandering in old houses

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These six images are of the prayer book of my wife's great-grandmother, Elisabetta Petacci Gabioli Crescenzi; the little hand-written, hand-sewn booklet dates from 1900 to 1912. The last pages are used to write down the offerings made to the church after her death: "Offerings for mamma's soul." The list was kept by Evelina, her daughter.

Wonderful handwriting, the "d" is special.

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