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Category
Person (Male)
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Gosselies, 1874 - Brussels, 1925
Activity
1901 - 1908 Gosselies, Domaine du Bois-Lombut
° 3.8.1874; + 29.4.1925. Pioneering automobilist; president of the "Automobile-Club de Belgique". First prize winner in a photography competition organised at the 4th "Salon de l'Automobile" in Brussels in 1905. De Crawhez's travel book, "Dix ans au pays du soleil", Brussels, 1908, recounts a car journey through North Africa in 1901, and is illustrated with 92 halftone prints, including 6 plates hors texte, from his own negatives.
° 3.8.1874; + 29.4.1925. Pioneering automobilist; president of the "Automobile-Club de Belgique". First prize winner in a photography competition organised at the 4th "Salon de l'Automobile" in Brussels in 1905. De Crawhez's travel book, "Dix ans au pays du soleil", Brussels, 1908, recounts a car journey through North Africa in 1901, and is illustrated with 92 halftone prints, including 6 plates hors texte, from his own negatives.
Locations
1901 - 1908 Gosselies, Domaine du Bois-Lombut
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#1210
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 6.3.2019; MD revised 16.2.2023