Hey! Facepunch users! I'm in need of photo indentification help! Could be relative of mine....or not - General

Ya, So I've had this photo in my belonging for quite a few number of years now. Believe it or not, my mother believes it might've been a piece from my grandmother's apartment we cleaned out when she passed away (which was a bit after i found the photograph) and my father believes it was bought by him in a lot of misc. objects at a yard sale a long time ago (long may not be the correct term here, we're talking 10+ years if his story is the truth). For the sake of finally solving this mystery, I come to Facepunch of all places because I've done endless google searches and I am coming up with nothing considering I'm searching with the only keywords of relevancy here which are on the bottom right of the potrait. Arthur Studios and right below that New York. (All I'm finding is a dance studio based in New York, with the owner's name being Arthur Studio....) There's also a number on the back written in pencil: 35463 Anyway here's the pic: [url]http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg96/11killer11/myseriousphoto.jpg[/url] Anybody's help would bring me closer to solving this family mystery!

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Well, it's old so it won't be on any computer databases, and we can't reverse image-search it. It's not digital so we can't spy through the exif-data. And Arthur Studios doesn't exist any more according to business catalogues that don't turn anything up, so there's no one whom we can contact. There's nothing we can do, sorry man. [editline]9th July 2012[/editline] Wait, I found a New York-based Arthur Studio, that specialized in portrait photography. Est. 1930, closed in 1970. Son of founder Garnet Arthur is Eric Arthur, I'll see if I can fetch contact info. EDIT: Sorry again, they were Australia-based. [editline]9th July 2012[/editline] YES! I rummaged through some old records and found Arthur Studios photography, based in Brooklyn. More info coming soon.

Thanks,mac338. This really helps a lot.

It's not much, but I found another photograph by Arthur Studios [IMG_THUMB]http://www.deadfred.com/photos/58105.jpg[/IMG_THUMB] Date: 1921-1940 Photographer: Arthur Studios Photographer's City: Brooklyn Photographer's State: NY Contact this man, he's in the photograph: James A Yuill PO Box 37 Harpursville, NY 13787-0037 He's very old though. Send a nice letter and ask about Arthur Studios. Maybe you can find Arthur's son, and then figure out something about the picture. Good luck.

mac you're a wizard.

YES! [all taken at Arthur Studios 17 West 42nd St. New York] That's the old adress. [editline]9th July 2012[/editline] Still unknown who the owner is, outside the omnipotent "Arthur", they did a lot of yearbook photography, some sports events and some misc. A small photo studio by any standard operating between 1921 and 1940. Adress found in this old paper. [IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/75010084/Paper.png[/IMG] [editline]9th July 2012[/editline] Interesting. The studio survived the great depression just fine, and he photographed a black man during a time of apartheid, in 1930. [IMG]http://oubliette.library.umass.edu/images/resize/displaywatermark/mums312-0003-001.png[/IMG] More stuff as placeholders while I rummage through everything I can find. [IMG]http://farm1.staticflickr.com/23/30663756_439ea49cc7_o.jpg[/IMG] [editline]9th July 2012[/editline] I think you can contact the secretary of state of New York and ask about business archives. List the adress and business, and see if you can get Arthur's full name, and if any other people worked for him. If any of the people at Arthur Studios is alive, you have a chance. If not, I doubt any of their relatives could answer your questions and your trail would end there. You'd be incredibly lucky if any were though, because they're going to be late 90's, early 100's in age.

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mac, thanks a lot man, I knew comin' to Facepunch was the right thing in this situation. Just had a gut feelin'. I'll start on the buisness archive thing first and make my way from there!

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