Photo album of buildings designed by Reinhold Schmaeling
The photo album in the photography collection of the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation is a gift from the employees of the Riga City Architects Office to Reinhold Schmaeling, their colleague and architect, to commemorate his 25 years of service as a Riga City architect (1879-1904).
The album contains 88 photographs by an unknown author with photo fixations of buildings designed and reconstructed by Schmaeling.
The photo album is not only a historically valuable visual testimony to the work of a prominent city architect, but also presents particular interest in that it offers an amazing journey through various parts of Riga stopping at objects that have rarely been recorded in ancient photographs.
The description of exhibition can be viewed on the virtual exhibition platform of the Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums of Latvia by clicking on link:
https://www.nmkk.lv/Exhibitions/ExhibitionForm.aspx?id=479
The insight into the exhibition – photos can be viewed on the virtual exhibition platform of the Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums of Latvia by clicking on exhibition items link:
http://www.nmkk.lv/Exhibitions/ExhibitionItemList.aspx?id=479
Photo album of buildings designed by Reinhold Schmaeling
Brown leather volume (bookbinding “Chr. Haffelberg, Riga”) with a metal forged, artistically designed ornament in the upper left corner of the lid (laurels branch surrounded by a ribbon with the dates “September 15, 1879-1904” and a Schmaeling’s monogram with craft symbols – circle, triangle, rail).
In the album has bound 22 sheets of gray cardboard (39.5 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm), which contain 88 photographs and photo postcards, below each image there is decipherments of buildings in Russian, handwritten with black ink. In the first page of the album there there is dedication to the anniversary of Schmaeling in German, handwritten with ink and with 6 signatures.
Canteen in Kliversala (Kliver island), Riga. Author unknown.