RARE Original Advertising Letterhead / Billhead
The Main Studio
Max H. Orlin, Prop.
Artistic Photographer
Buffalo, New York
1915
For offer, a very nice old Advertising lithograph letter head / bill head! Fresh from an old prominent estate. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !!
Nice unusual graphic advertising print logo - portrait of the photographer. Signed by Orlin. Artistic Photographs, Copying, enlarging, & Paintings - home portraits, flash lights, & amateur work. In good to very good condition. Fold marks from being in envelope. NOTE: Will be sent folded up, as found, to save on shipping. Please see photos for all details and condition. If you collect 19th / 20th century Americana advertisement ad history, American printing, photo related, etc. this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Genealogy research importance as well. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 1351
Towns in Erie County :
Cities[edit]
Buffalo (county seat)
Lackawanna
Tonawanda
Towns[edit]
Alden
Amherst
Aurora
Boston
Brant
Cheektowaga
Clarence
Colden
Collins
Concord
Eden
Elma
Evans
Grand Island
Hamburg
Holland
Lancaster
Marilla
Newstead
North Collins
Orchard Park
Sardinia
Tonawanda
Wales
West Seneca
Villages[edit]
Akron
Alden
Angola
Blasdell
Depew
East Aurora
Farnham
Gowanda
Hamburg
Kenmore
Lancaster
North Collins
Orchard Park
Sloan
Springville
Williamsville
Census-designated places[edit]
Angola on the Lake
Billington Heights
Cheektowaga
Clarence
Clarence Center
Eden
Eggertsville
Elma Center
Grandyle Village
Harris Hill
Holland
Lake Erie Beach
North Boston
Tonawanda
Town Line
University at Buffalo
Wanakah
West Seneca
Hamlets[edit]
Akron Junction
Alden Center
Armor
Athol Springs
Bagdad
Bellevue
Big Tree
Blakeley
Blossom
Boston
Bowmansville
Brant
Brighton
Carnegie
Chaffee
Clarksburg
Cleveland Hill
Clifton Heights
Collins Center
Concord
Creekside
Crittenden
Dellwood
Derby
Doyle
Duells Corner
Dutchtown
East Amherst
East Concord
East Eden
East Elma
East Seneca
Ebenezer
Eden Valley
Ellicott
Elma
Evans Center
Ferry Village
Footes
Forks
Fowlerville
Gardenville
Getzville
Glenwood
Green Acres
Griffins Mills
Holland
Hunts Corners
Jerusalem Corners
Jewettville
Kenilworth
Lake View
Langford
Lawtons
Locksley Park
Looneyville
Loveland
Marilla
Marshfield
Millersport
Millgrove
Morton Corners
Mount Vernon
Murrays Corner
New Ebenezer
New Oregon
North Bailey
North Evans
Oakfield
Patchin
Peters Corners
Pine Hill
Pinehurst
Pontiac
Porterville
Protection
Sand Hill
Sandy Beach
Scranton
Sheenwater
Shirley
Snyder
South Cheektowaga
South Newstead
South Wales
Spring Brook
Swifts Mills
Taylor Hollow
Town Line Station
Swormville
Walden Cliffs
Wales Hollow
Water Valley
Webster Corners
Wende
West Alden
West Falls
Weyer
Williston
Windom
Wolcottsburg
Woodlawn
Woodside
Wyandale
Zoar
Indian reservations[edit]
Cattaraugus Reservation
Tonawanda Reservation
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light")[1] is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and functions[edit]
An English photographer in his studio, in the 1850s.
As in other arts, the definitions of amateur and professional are not entirely categorical. A professional photographer is likely to take photographs to make money, by salary or through the display, sale or use of those photographs. An amateur photographer may take photographs for pleasure and to record an event, emotion, place, as a person without a monetary motivation.
A professional photographer may be an employee, for example of a newspaper, or may contract to cover a particular planned event such as a wedding or graduation, or to illustrate an advertisement. Others, including paparazzi and fine art photographers, are freelancers, first making a picture and then offering it for sale or display. Some workers, such as crime scene detectives, estate agents, journalists and scientists, make photographs as part of other work. Photographers who produce moving rather than still pictures are often called cinematographers, videographers or camera operators, depending on the commercial context.
An amateur may make considerable sums entering work in contests for prize money or through occasional inclusion of their work in magazines or the archive of a photo agency. The term professional may also imply preparation, for example, by academic study, by the photographer in pursuit of photographic skills. There is no compulsory registration requirement for professional photographer status, so ambivalent or overlapping concepts apply here as they do in other areas of unregulated artistic activity, such as painting or writing.
Photographers are also categorized based on the subjects they photograph. Some photographers explore subjects typical of paintings such as landscape, still life, and portraiture. Other photographers specialize in subjects unique to photography, including street photography, documentary photography, fashion photography, wedding photography, war photography, photojournalism, aviation photography and commercial photography.
Selling photographs[edit]
Further information: Photography and the law
A U.S. Navy photographer in March 2004.
The exclusive right of photographers to copy and use their products is protected by copyright. Countless industries purchase photographs for use in publications and on products. The photographs seen on magazine covers, in television advertising, on greeting cards or calendars, on websites, or on products and packages, have generally been purchased for this use, either directly from the photographer or through an agency that represents the photographer. A photographer uses a contract to sell the "license" or use of his or her photograph with exact controls regarding how often the photograph will be used, in what territory it will be used (for example U.S. or U.K. or other), and exactly for which products. This is usually referred to as usage fee and is used to distinguish from production fees (payment for the actual creation of a photograph or photographs). An additional contract and royalty would apply for each additional use of the photograph.
The contract may be for only one year, or other duration. The photographer usually charges a royalty as well as a one-time fee, depending on the terms of the contract. The contract may be for non-exclusive use of the photograph (meaning the photographer can sell the same photograph for more than one use during the same year) or for exclusive use of the photograph (i.e. only that company may use the photograph during the term). The contract can also stipulate that the photographer is entitled to audit the company for determination of royalty payments. Royalties vary depending on the industry buying the photograph and the use, for example, royalties for a photograph used on a poster or in television advertising may be higher than for use on a limited run of brochures. A royalty is also often based on the size at which the photo will be used in a magazine or book, and cover photos usually command higher fees than photos used elsewhere in a book or magazine.
Photos taken by a photographer while working on assignment are often work for hire belonging to the company or publication unless stipulated otherwise by contract. Professional portrait and wedding photographers often stipulate by contract that they retain the copyright of their photos, so that only they can sell further prints of the photographs to the consumer, rather than the customer reproducing the photos by other means. If the customer wishes to be able to reproduce the photos themselves, they may discuss an alternative contract with the photographer in advance before the pictures are taken, in which a larger up front fee may be paid in exchange for reprint rights passing to the customer.
There are major companies who have maintained catalogues of stock photography and images for decades, such as Getty Images and others. Since the turn of the 21st century many online stock photography catalogues have appeared that invite photographers to sell their photos online easily and quickly, but often for very little money, without a royalty, and without control over the use of the photo, the market it will be used in, the products it will be used on, time duration, etc.
Commercial photographers may also promote their work to advertising and editorial art buyers via printed and online marketing vehicles.
Photo sharing[edit]
Main article: Photo sharing
Many people upload their photographs to social networking websites and other websites, in order to share them with a particular group or with the general public. Those interested in legal precision may explicitly release them to the public domain or under a free content license. Some sites, including Wikimedia Commons, are punctilious about licenses and only accept pictures with clear information about permitted use.