| Portrait of: WALZL, JOHN HENRY, born, June 23 , 1833, in Stein, on the Danube, Lower Austria. He set sail from the port of Havre, France, and in September of 1853 landed in New York. He obtained a situation in the jewelry establishment of David Raith, and subsequently in the house of Tiffany, Young & Ellis, where he earned as high as forty dollars a week in simply setting diamonds, in which he was quite an expert. He remained in New York two years, during which time he saved enough to provide for his family a home in Hoboken , where he had purchased several building lots. Being compelled to change his business on account of impaired health he removed to Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1854 associated with him Mr. Beeckman Cooke in the daguerreotype business, under the firm style of Cooke & Walzl . Six months after the copartnership was formed Mr. Walzl bought the entire interest of the establishment. He extended his business considerably, engaging largely in the supplying of daguerreotype stock or material to the Southern trade . Upon the introduction of photography in 1856 he again expanded his business, his establishment becoming the leading one of its kind in Baltimore. Mr. Walzl was the inventor of Tatum's Patent Oil-ground Photographs, a process whereby photographs can be printed directly on the oiled canvas. Since 1868 Mr. Walzl has devoted himself very extensively to operations in real estate . Waverly, on the York Road, Baltimore County, owes its origin and growth largely to him. Print Specifics:
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