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Segers, [Jean] & Bonnarens [Camiel]Send us additional info
Identity
Category
Partnership
Status
- Professional
Details
Activity
1903 * - 1914 Hamme-lez-Termonde, Geemstraat (Statiestraat)
Partnership between Petrus Joannes Segers (° Hamme, 2.6.1859; + Hamme, 20.5.1953) and Camiel Bonnarens (° Hamme, 3.3.1873; + Hamme, 25.3.1952). Segers was recorded as a postman in Hamme at the birth of a stillborn daughter there in May 1898. Bonnarens was recorded as a bookbinder living in Hamme at the occasion of his wedding there on 21.2.1900. At the birth of his children in Hamme in September 1907 and October 1910, Bonnarens was respectively recorded as an office clerk and a foreman living in Hamme, Statiestraat.
The partnership's ledger or daybook has survived for the period 1903 to 1908, providing a unique insight into the workings of a local portrait studio at the turn of the 20th century. A first receipt was recorded on 9.8.1903, followed by well over two thousand entries until 27.6.1908. An annual balance sheet shows the studio making a healthy profit throughout the period; a final tally gave a total profit of 4717 francs on an income of 9063 francs. The partnership may then have been dissolved, despite still being listed in trade directories, and Segers subsequently operated alone; "Photo Segers" during World War I and throughout the interwar period.
Partnership between Petrus Joannes Segers (° Hamme, 2.6.1859; + Hamme, 20.5.1953) and Camiel Bonnarens (° Hamme, 3.3.1873; + Hamme, 25.3.1952). Segers was recorded as a postman in Hamme at the birth of a stillborn daughter there in May 1898. Bonnarens was recorded as a bookbinder living in Hamme at the occasion of his wedding there on 21.2.1900. At the birth of his children in Hamme in September 1907 and October 1910, Bonnarens was respectively recorded as an office clerk and a foreman living in Hamme, Statiestraat.
The partnership's ledger or daybook has survived for the period 1903 to 1908, providing a unique insight into the workings of a local portrait studio at the turn of the 20th century. A first receipt was recorded on 9.8.1903, followed by well over two thousand entries until 27.6.1908. An annual balance sheet shows the studio making a healthy profit throughout the period; a final tally gave a total profit of 4717 francs on an income of 9063 francs. The partnership may then have been dissolved, despite still being listed in trade directories, and Segers subsequently operated alone; "Photo Segers" during World War I and throughout the interwar period.
Locations
1903 * - 1914 Hamme-lez-Termonde, Geemstraat (Statiestraat)
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#1185
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 17.1.2019 based on information supplied by Peter Eyckerman; SFJ revised 26.8.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD / SFJ revised 13.5.2022, 5.6.2023 & 19.6.2023 partly based on information supplied by Peter Eyckerman