DIRECTORY_1997#1686 new approved FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen conventionDeclaration ISAAR(CPF): Internationale norm voor archivistische geautoriseerde beschrijvingen van organisaties, personen en families, Antwerpen/Leuven/Amsterdam 2006. detailLevel http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4 created January 2, 2015 9:53:02 AM CET human revised August 13, 2025 2:30:27 PM CEST human Person (Male) person Fondu, Jean Baptiste conventionDeclaration Connected conventionDeclaration Jumet, 1832 - ?, 1905 1884 - 1890 / Vilvorde, Boulevard du Hainaut, 25

<b>1884 - 1890 / Vilvorde, Boulevard du Hainaut, 25</b> ° 20.5.1832. Electroplating and metal working; listed under photographic supplies in directories. Factory in Vilvoorde. Emigrated to the USA in 1890, leaving his company in the hands of his three children, notably Charles Fondu (see that name). Subsequently registered in Brussels as an industrialist aged 64 in July 1896. Knight of the Leopold Order. Fondu’s funerary chapel in Laeken cemetery, cast in bronze from his own factory, bears the inscription "Fondu Family 1868 - Models and Bronzes made by the Fondu firm in Vilvorde".