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Women of the bourgeoisie Blieskastel

Women of the bourgeoisie from Blieskastel

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"Higher daughters" and "entrepreneur's wives" around 1900

This photo series presents photographs of women from Blieskastel's middle-class families, who were part of the town's upper classes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The photos show women from the business families Heim/Ritter (August Heim department stores'), Braun (Peter Braun electrician, now Elektro Braun GmbH) and Schetting (Josef Schetting, Breitfurt). The photos come from the Blieskastel town archives and offer an insight into the lives of these women, whose roles and social significance have received little attention in the region to date.

Some of the photos have been preserved from private albums and are only sparsely documented.

Click on the first picture to start the picture gallery:

Black and white photo of a young woman with a wreath of hair and two books.
Photographer: A. Reinhard & Co., Zweibrücken / Stadtarchiv Blieskastel
Photograph of a young lady from the Heim/Ritter family in the Reinhard & Co. studio. Zweibrücken.
Black and white portrait from head to chest of a young woman with a bow in her hair.
Photographer: A. Reinhard & Co., Zweibrücken / Stadtarchiv Blieskastel
Photograph of a young lady from the Heim/Ritter family in the Reinhard & Co. studio. Zweibrücken.
Black and white side portrait of a young woman.
Photographer: Almstaedt, Portrait and Landscape Tompkinsville, S.I. / Stadtarchiv Blieskastel
Portrait of Sophie Heim.
Full body black and white portrait of a woman with hat.
Photographer: Atelier Hellmann, Homburg / Stadtarchiv Blieskastel
Photograph of a lady with a hat around 1900 from the Josef Schetting Collection, Breitfurt.
Black and white full body portrait of a woman.
Photographer: W. Zeiger, St. Ingbert / Stadtarchiv Blieskastel
Photograph of a lady in a white dress in the photo studio W. Zeiger, St. Ingbert from the Josef Schetting Collection, Breitfurt. According to an enclosed card, it could be Katherine Keller.
Two black and white photographs of the same woman in a photo studio.
Photographer: unknown / Blieskastel town archive
Portrait of an elderly lady in front of a painted background from the Peter Braun Collection, Blieskastel.
Black and white photo of two women.
Photographer: unknown / Blieskastel town archive
Double portrait of an older and a younger woman in front of a painted landscape (photo taken in a photo studio) from the Peter Braun Collection, Blieskastel.
Black and white full body group shot of three women.
Photographer: unknown / Blieskastel town archive
Group photograph of three elderly ladies with hats and long coats from the Peter Braun Collection, Blieskastel.
Black and white group photo of four women.
Photographer: unknown / Blieskastel town archive
Four young ladies in front of a doorway / garden gate. Group photograph from the Peter Braun Collection, Blieskastel.
Black and white photo of a woman with a dog.
Photographer: unknown / Blieskastel town archive
Portrait of a woman with a dog in a garden from the Peter Braun Collection, Blieskastel.
Black and white photo of a woman with a dog.
Photographer: unknown / Blieskastel town archive
Portrait of a woman with a dog in front of a doorway / garden gate from the Peter Braun Collection, Blieskastel.

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