Helmut Reitbauer‘s excellent collection of carte de visite photos and other historical photographs can now be accessed separately from the previous FindBox topothek at findbox-reitbauer.topothek.at. The previous FindBox Topotheque is still available at findbox.topothek.at and serves as an interim storage facility for images that cannot yet be assigned to a Topotheque.
This means that the Reitbauer photo collection can better present itself as an independent thematic Topotheque.
Helmut Reitbauer has created a comprehensive topic structure and downloadable PDF overview lists. For the history of the photo studios, you can find valuable information about the photographers in the topic list “Photographer collections by location”. Even if most of the people depicted are not known by name, ancestors have often been discovered through the location of the studios. If the photographers are known by name, the entries are linked to the Albertina bio-bibliography. With the information about the duration of a photographer‘s studio, it has been possible to limit the recording period for many a photo. If you are not looking for people, just be fascinated by fashion and hairstyles and ask yourself what fates these long-dead people met. At least there should be a thoughtful smile.