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From: "Mike" <>
Subject: Re: [PA-CAMERON] Schriever Photo Studio
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 00:07:27 -0500
References: <114.1eb85ba1.2b76ce28@aol.com>


There are 4 Schriever Emporium photos for sale on Ebay this week. The
seller wants $24 minimum bid for most of them. He also posted a bit of a
bio...I will copy it and post it here.

Mike Wennin
Come Visit the Cameron County Genealogy Project!
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero

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Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 4:18 PM
Subject: [PA-CAMERON] Schriever Photo Studio


> In a message dated 2/7/2003 9:07:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> > It would be nice to
> > find out if that particular photo studio left its
> > records anywhere! The name of the studio was
> > "Schriever" and the photo frames have that name and
> > "Emporium, PA" embossed on them.
>
> The Schriever Photo Studio was owned by the son of my great-grandmother's
> sister, Jay Schriever. James B. "Jay" Schriever was the son of Veronica
> Schmandt (Schmond) and Jacob Schriever. He was born in 1868 and died Jan
3,
> 1943. He trained his nephew William G. Bair (my grandmother's brother) in
the
> photography business and then sold the business to him in the early 1900s,
> when it became the Bair Photo Studio. The business burned in the early
1930s,
> and all the negatives and photographs stored there burned as well, in
> addition to some town records that were stored there for some unknown
reason.
> William G. Bair was born in Emporium on April 24, 1877, and died on April
8,
> 1960.
>
> It would be interesting to pin down the dates when the business was sold
from
> Schriever to Bair, and also the date of the fire, as that would help some
> people narrow down the dates of unidentified photos in the family. The
deeds
> could be checked to find those dates.
>
> As to the question about the Egan funeral home, I think I am related to
them
> also. I will check on that.
> Cathi
>
>
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