<b>1895 - 1920 > Gand, Rue de Flandre, 9</b> Predecessor: Wauters Polydore or Wauters [P.] & Masquelier [A.] Successor: Photo Hall Gantois # Buysse Edgard # Julianus Marcellinus, ° 17.11.1873; + 11.4.1943. Sometimes transcribed "Declercq". Owner of a photographic supply house and agency for optical equipment and cameras. Manufacture and repair shop. Listed in the Ghent directories from 1904 onwards; previously Polydore Wauters is listed as owner at this address. Also see entry for "Comptoir (Général) de Photographie". Author of "La Photographie au Congo et sous les tropiques", 1910, offering synergy with his firm that made a speciality of cameras and supplies for the tropics. Also published picture-postcards bearing the initials J.D.C. (sometimes interlocked). Declercq signed photographs in 1909 documenting an old mansion about to be demolished, a possible commission. Autochromist from at least November 1908. He exhibited autochromes at the annual slide show of the Ghent section of the ABP in March 1912. Still listed at this address in 1921 and still a member of the ABP in 1922. <b>1906 * - 1912 / Bruges, Rue Sud du Sablon, 23<06-08> or 24 or 25 then 13<08-10></b> Successor: Vercauteren François According to Guillaume Michiels this branch opened at no. 24 on 24.1.1906. Advertising at no. 25 in March 1906 (Vers l'Art, 1.3.1906). Advertising at no. 24 in November 1907 (Brugsch Handelsblad, 30.11.1907). Opening at no. 13 advertised in November 1908 (Brugsch Handelsblad, 21.11.1908). Managed by François Vercauteren (see that name).