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    <publicationStatus>approved</publicationStatus>

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      <agencyName>FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen</agencyName>

    </maintenanceAgency>

    

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      <abbreviation>conventionDeclaration</abbreviation>

      <citation>ISAAR(CPF): Internationale norm voor archivistische geautoriseerde beschrijvingen van organisaties, personen en families, Antwerpen/Leuven/Amsterdam 2006.</citation>

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      <citation>http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4</citation>

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  <eventDateTime standardDateTime="2015-01-02T10:52:47">January 2, 2015 10:52:47 AM CET</eventDateTime>
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  <eventDateTime standardDateTime="2025-03-29T17:42:20">March 29, 2025 5:42:20 PM CET</eventDateTime>
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      <entityId>Person (Male)</entityId>

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        <part>Wettstein, Edouard Fils</part>

        <authorizedForm>conventionDeclaration</authorizedForm>

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          <part>Professional / Connected</part>

          <alternativeForm>conventionDeclaration</alternativeForm>

        </nameEntry>
      
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    <description>

      <existDates><date>Verviers, 1868 - Verviers, 1940</date></existDates>

      <place>

        <placeEntry>1893 * - 1940 + Verviers, Rue de la Tranchée, 34, 36&lt;98-00&gt; or 38&lt;00-14&gt;
1904 - 1940 + Verviers, Rue de l'Harmonie, 64&lt;04 ca&gt; or 68-70&lt;04-14&gt;</placeEntry>

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        <term>Spa, 1907.</term>

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      <biogHist><p>&lt;b&gt;1893 * - 1940 + Verviers, Rue de la Tranchée, 34, 36&lt;98-00&gt; or 38&lt;00-14&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
Predecessor: Wettstein Edouard Père &amp; Fils
° 6.3.1868; + 1.1.1940. Already at this address in 1893 in partnership with his father under the trade name "Ed. Wettstein Père &amp; Fils". After his father’s death in December 1899, the photographs bore the name "Ed. Wettstein". On CVs, "With this photograph, enlargements up to life size can always be procured". On invoice header dated 1898, "Collotype, Platinotype". Took over his father's membership of the ABP.
&lt;b&gt;1904 - 1940 + Verviers, Rue de l'Harmonie, 64&lt;04 ca&gt; or 68-70&lt;04-14&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
Taken over by the son of Edouard Fils, the studio operated at this address until it ceased trading in 1965.</p></biogHist>

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