Barras, Victor (Fils)

Identity

Category

Person (Male)

Alternative name or descriptor

  • Photographie Populaire et Industrielle (in Brussels - Laeken)

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Status

  • Professional

Details

Life dates

Liège, 1872 - Jemeppe-sur-Meuse, 1945

Activity

1897 Ypres, Rue de Dixmude, 61
Mathieu Victor Sylvain, ° 18.9.1872. Son of Victor Barras (see that name). At his wedding in Montenaken on 4.12.1897, he was recorded as a photographer domiciled in Ypres. CV with his name and this address handwritten on the back.
1900 * - 1902 / Diest, Cleynaertsstraat, 2
Arrived at this address from Chatelet on 22.8.1900. CV autographed “V. Barras” with no street name, c. 1900. Left for Charleroi on 28.5.1902.
1902 ca Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Place de la Reine, 32
Predecessor: Siegerist Fernand #
On CV, handwritten supplementary address on verso "21 rue de Namur / Gosselies".
1902 ca Gosselies, Rue de Namur, 21
See above. Either contemporary with or slightly posterior to the studio in Brussels - Schaerbeek, Place de la Reine, 32.
1902 ca - 1914 Bruxelles - Laeken, Chaussée d’Anvers, 314<02ca> then 379<12-14>
Predecessor: Willem G.  Successor: Klein Elisa (at no. 314) #
Possibly operated at no. 379 several years previously.
1906 ca - 1923 Gosselies, Rue de la Station, 23
The directories list a V. Barras in Gosselies (no street given) in 1905 and 1906. He ran two studios in Gosselies, then left for Jemeppe-sur-Meuse after 1927. His son, also named Victor (° Gosselies, 11.3.1904; + Seraing, 2.11.1980), ran the studio at Rue de la Station, 23 from 1923 onwards, then left for Seraing in 1927.

Locations

1897 Ypres, Rue de Dixmude, 61
1900 * - 1902 / Diest, Cleynaertsstraat, 2
1902 ca Bruxelles - Schaerbeek, Place de la Reine, 32
1902 ca Gosselies, Rue de Namur, 21
1902 ca - 1914 Bruxelles - Laeken, Chaussée d’Anvers, 314<02ca> then 379<12-14>
1906 ca - 1923 Gosselies, Rue de la Station, 23

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DIRECTORY_1997#5054

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SFJ revised 7.2.2017 & 25.2.2018; MCC revised 20.5.2018; SFJ revised 20.4.2019, 16.6.2019 & 17.9.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 16.10.2023 based on information supplied by Peter Ecykerman

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