JULIUS CAESAR STRAUSS
MORE LOST NEGS AND AUTOCHROMES PAGE 8
PHOTOS & TEXT COPYRIGHT THOMAS YANUL, 9-05

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
AND ONE OF ITS NOTABLES
STRAUSS OF ST. LOUIS

J.C. STRAUSS WITH HIS THREE BOYS, 1907 LEFT, 1909 RIGHT
WAS STRAUSS ONE OF THE PENULTIMATE CONSCIOUS HISTORICAL RECORDERS ?
MAYBE THESE  "TYPES"  DESERVE ACCOLADES ABOVE WHAT IS COMMONLY BESTOWED UPON THEM...
HE WAS CONSCIOUS OF HIS SUCCESS, HIS SKILLS, AND HIS RECORD OF PEOPLE.
HIS ADMIRATION FOR OTHERS IN HIS, AND OTHER FIELDS OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR ARE ADMIRABLE
HIS PERSONAL WARMTH, SKILLLS  AND MAGNETISM MADE HIM  AN  " AMERICAN MASTER", AS HE OFTEN  PORTRAYED OTHERS.

AS AN ASIDE...3 8X10" NEGATIVES SAVED FROM THE EDWYN STUDIO
PORTRAITS OF "WALTER" LIBERACE AS HE WAS STILL KNOWN THEN, APRIL 7, 1943

BELOW - FOUR ADDITIONAL STRAUSS AUTOCHROMES
THE DISTINCT BLUES & GREENS ARE APPARENT DETERIORATION
THE RECENT STORAGE OF THESE ITEMS WAS IN  A POOR ENVIRONMENT

ALLEN, G.L.

GLASER

NANCY BATES

DR.VALLE
PROBABLY DR. JULES F. VALLE, MD.

PRESS PHOTO FOR DETAIL

CHARLES C. KILGEN (1859-1932)
KILGEN PIPE ORGAN CO. , ST. LOUIS, MO.
STRAUSS PHOTO 1921

MISSOURI STATE SENATOR MICHAEL KINNEY
LONGEST SERVING MO. SENATOR 1912-1964
STRAUSS PHOTO (SLT WATER DAMAGE)

 VIEWS OF TOM MIX LAST FILM
 THE MIRACLE RIDER - 1935
 FROM FOUR ORIGINAL NEGATIVES
STRAUSS STUDIO, ST. LOUIS
NEG ENVELOPE SIMPLY LABELED,
"EDDIE WISE -  TOM MIX"
NO IDEA OF WHOM WISE WAS