<b>1852 Audenarde, Grand Place, "Pomme d’Or"</b> Adolphe Guillaume, ° 1.1.1813; + 27.1.1874. Itinerant Daguerreotypist, advertising his presence on 5.12.1852. <b>1853 - 1854 Gand, Rue des Annonciades, 10</b> Daguerreotypist. "A. Larauza, artist from Paris". "Lessons in photography and cameras supplied". <b>1855 Gand, Rue de Courtrai, 166</b> <b>1855 * - 1859 / Bruxelles, Rue d'Assaut, 4</b> Successor: Jacoby Emile # Photographer and daguerreotypist. Arrived at this address on 7.3.1855 from Brussels - Schaerbeek. Left on 6.10.1859. Patent of 5.7.1855 for "a photographic multiplier" [sliding shutter frame]. <b>1857 Gand, Rue de Courtrai, 16 b</b> Photographer and daguerreotypist. <b>1859 * - 1868 Bruxelles, Montagne aux Herbes Potagères, 41</b> Successor: Verstraeten Opposite the Rue Fossé aux Loups. Arrived at this address on 6.10.1859. In January 1860, Larauza placed an advertisement seeking to sell a studio operating in Rotterdam [NL] (Journal de Bruxelles, 14.1.1860). It was run by his son Gustave Larauza (° Paris [F], 13.2.1835), described as a painter-decorator when he was registered with his father in Rue d'Assaut, 4 in 1855 and subsequently active as a photographer in Rotterdam from 1856 to 1869, intially for a short period in partnership with P.J. Cornelisse(n) (see that name). Patent of 15.12.1865 for "photographic portraits in the form of statuettes" [the apparatus was a rotating wooden cylinder]. Another son, likewise named Adolphe (° Paris [F], 1.7.1841), was registered as a photographer at the same address in 1866. They left Brussels at an unspecified date and operated jointly in Paris [F], Rue du Faubourg Saint Martin, 89 in around 1870. Recorded as a concierge on his death certificate.