John Lautenschlager was born in 1867 in Petersburg, Ontario. He was the sixth of eight children and while his older brothers joined their father in farming, John took a decidedly different track and pursued photography.
In 1895, he and his family moved to New Hamburg and opened a studio at 91 Huron Street. At that time, the building featured a massive skylight of some 50 panes of glass, and the second storey was filled with props: pillars, books, tasseled furniture, stuffed birds, and numerous painted canvas backdrops depicting everything from posh parlours to lush palisades; sweeping staircases to neo-Classical vistas.
In 1908 he was featured in a promotional periodical on New Hamburg businesses:
What would life in a country town be without the photographer—the man who takes your picture and thus enables you to preserve and hand down to posterity the appearance you bore in life. New Hamburg has its photographer and he is a good one. Mr. John Lautenschlager has been "the man behind the camera" here for fifteen years. He has a well lighted and excellent studio, equipped with the latest in cameras and other photographic appliances. He has the most improved facilities for photos up to 14 x 17 inches, makes a specialty of colored and outdoor work and has a large trade in bromides. He enjoys an extensive patronage throughout the townships of Wilmot, Wellesley, North Easthope, Zorra and the villages roundabout. His cabinet work is conceded to be eminently satisfactory, and he does enlarging with much success. Mr. Lautenschlager is a most estimable citizen and takes a keen interest in everything pertaining to New Hamburg.
By the time he retired in 1928, Lautenschlager had taken hundreds of photos of people from all throughout the Township of Wilmot.
- Excerpt from "Lautenschlager's Corner" by Kristen Hale for the Wilmot-Tavistock Gazette, November 4, 2021 (Retrieved from https://wilmotpost.ca/news/article.php?Lautenschlager-s-Corner-1181)
In 1895, he and his family moved to New Hamburg and opened a studio at 91 Huron Street. At that time, the building featured a massive skylight of some 50 panes of glass, and the second storey was filled with props: pillars, books, tasseled furniture, stuffed birds, and numerous painted canvas backdrops depicting everything from posh parlours to lush palisades; sweeping staircases to neo-Classical vistas.
In 1908 he was featured in a promotional periodical on New Hamburg businesses:
What would life in a country town be without the photographer—the man who takes your picture and thus enables you to preserve and hand down to posterity the appearance you bore in life. New Hamburg has its photographer and he is a good one. Mr. John Lautenschlager has been "the man behind the camera" here for fifteen years. He has a well lighted and excellent studio, equipped with the latest in cameras and other photographic appliances. He has the most improved facilities for photos up to 14 x 17 inches, makes a specialty of colored and outdoor work and has a large trade in bromides. He enjoys an extensive patronage throughout the townships of Wilmot, Wellesley, North Easthope, Zorra and the villages roundabout. His cabinet work is conceded to be eminently satisfactory, and he does enlarging with much success. Mr. Lautenschlager is a most estimable citizen and takes a keen interest in everything pertaining to New Hamburg.
By the time he retired in 1928, Lautenschlager had taken hundreds of photos of people from all throughout the Township of Wilmot.
- Excerpt from "Lautenschlager's Corner" by Kristen Hale for the Wilmot-Tavistock Gazette, November 4, 2021 (Retrieved from https://wilmotpost.ca/news/article.php?Lautenschlager-s-Corner-1181)
John Lautenschlager was born in 1867 in Petersburg, Ontario. He was the sixth of eight children and while his older brothers joined their father in farming, John took a decidedly different track and pursued photography.
In 1895, he and his family moved to New Hamburg and opened a studio at 91 Huron Street. At that time, the building featured a massive skylight of some 50 panes of glass, and the second storey was filled with props: pillars, books, tasseled furniture, stuffed birds, and numerous painted canvas backdrops depicting everything from posh parlours to lush palisades; sweeping staircases to neo-Classical vistas.
In 1908 he was featured in a promotional periodical on New Hamburg businesses:
What would life in a country town be without the photographer—the man who takes your picture and thus enables you to preserve and hand down to posterity the appearance you bore in life. New Hamburg has its photographer and he is a good one. Mr. John Lautenschlager has been "the man behind the camera" here for fifteen years. He has a well lighted and excellent studio, equipped with the latest in cameras and other photographic appliances. He has the most improved facilities for photos up to 14 x 17 inches, makes a specialty of colored and outdoor work and has a large trade in bromides. He enjoys an extensive patronage throughout the townships of Wilmot, Wellesley, North Easthope, Zorra and the villages roundabout. His cabinet work is conceded to be eminently satisfactory, and he does enlarging with much success. Mr. Lautenschlager is a most estimable citizen and takes a keen interest in everything pertaining to New Hamburg.
By the time he retired in 1928, Lautenschlager had taken hundreds of photos of people from all throughout the Township of Wilmot.
- Excerpt from "Lautenschlager's Corner" by Kristen Hale for the Wilmot-Tavistock Gazette, November 4, 2021 (Retrieved from https://wilmotpost.ca/news/article.php?Lautenschlager-s-Corner-1181)
In 1895, he and his family moved to New Hamburg and opened a studio at 91 Huron Street. At that time, the building featured a massive skylight of some 50 panes of glass, and the second storey was filled with props: pillars, books, tasseled furniture, stuffed birds, and numerous painted canvas backdrops depicting everything from posh parlours to lush palisades; sweeping staircases to neo-Classical vistas.
In 1908 he was featured in a promotional periodical on New Hamburg businesses:
What would life in a country town be without the photographer—the man who takes your picture and thus enables you to preserve and hand down to posterity the appearance you bore in life. New Hamburg has its photographer and he is a good one. Mr. John Lautenschlager has been "the man behind the camera" here for fifteen years. He has a well lighted and excellent studio, equipped with the latest in cameras and other photographic appliances. He has the most improved facilities for photos up to 14 x 17 inches, makes a specialty of colored and outdoor work and has a large trade in bromides. He enjoys an extensive patronage throughout the townships of Wilmot, Wellesley, North Easthope, Zorra and the villages roundabout. His cabinet work is conceded to be eminently satisfactory, and he does enlarging with much success. Mr. Lautenschlager is a most estimable citizen and takes a keen interest in everything pertaining to New Hamburg.
By the time he retired in 1928, Lautenschlager had taken hundreds of photos of people from all throughout the Township of Wilmot.
- Excerpt from "Lautenschlager's Corner" by Kristen Hale for the Wilmot-Tavistock Gazette, November 4, 2021 (Retrieved from https://wilmotpost.ca/news/article.php?Lautenschlager-s-Corner-1181)
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In memory of/ John Lautenschlager/ Oct. 29, 1867 - Dec. 25, 1930/ Eliza Lautenschlager/ nee Rau/ Mar. 8, 1876 - Feb. 19, 1932
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