Pach Brothers

Pach Brothers was an American photo studio, which was founded in 1868 by the brothers born in Germany Gustavus, Gotthelf and Morris Pach. It was until 1994 in New York at various locations his seat

History

The first photographer and founder of the studio Pach Brothers in New York were Gustavus Pach (1848-1904), Gotthelf Pach (1852-1925) and Morris Pach ( 1837-1914 ). The Berlin-born brothers were already as babies to New York and began her photographic career as a young mid-1860s; they took on the residents of her apartment adjacent streets, as will their obituaries reported in newspapers. The photo studio in 1868, jointly established in Long Beach gave the brothers the opportunity portraits of the rich families of George W. Childs and Anthony Joseph Drexel of Philadelphia and his friend Ulysses S. Grant, from 1869 President of the United States, to customize. They supported the establishment of the studios on the site of the United States Hotel with the mobile, by a horse -drawn darkroom. A fourth brother, Oscar Pach (1850-1903) came in 1873 in the United States and worked as a business manager for the company. The Pach Brothers made ​​with the following generations in her studio photos of people from all backgrounds, including politicians, businessmen, scientists and artists, as well as families and their children as well as of buildings and works of art.

On February 16 In 1895 in the studio of a devastating fire at this time were the rooms on the top floor of the building at 535 and 537 Broadway. There were no injuries, but the entire negative archive, where the fire broke out, was destroyed. Pach Brothers continued their work but still almost a century until the year of 1994.

An extensive photo collection of Pach Brothers is part of the holdings of the New York Historical Society, New York.

A son of Gotthelf Pach, Walter Pach, an American artist, curator and art critic. He worked from 1909 to 1914 as a colorist in the Pach studio and one of the organizers of the legendary Armory Show, which opened in New York in 1913.

Gallery

Roosevelt Family, 1903

President Theodore Roosevelt, 1904

Students of Yale University, 1904

President Woodrow Wilson, 1912