Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2000.001.0008 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Sepia tone bust photograph shaded to an oval; subject facing left; gentleman has a handlebar mustache and sideburns; dressed in black suit with wide lapels; white shirt; softly folded large tie. |
Number of images |
2 |
Date |
ca 1894 |
Photographer |
Felt, Conrad |
Title |
Fritz, Conrad |
Collection |
Patternmaker - Conrad Fritz |
Accession number |
2000.001. |
People |
Fritz, Conrad |
Notes |
1854-1926 or 1851-1922 patternmaker, inventor 1877 & 1884 Belleville City Street Directory, Conrad, Carpenter, 600 East B St. 1887 & 1891 Belleville City Directory: Conrad, inventor, home 600 E 2nd N (East B) Listing the same in 1891 City Directory, except occup. is patternmaker. 1894 Belleville City Directory: Conrad, patternmaker, 512 East C Listing includes George, machinist, boarding at " Wildermann History of St. Clair County by Bateman, pub 1907, p 1017 Conrad Fritz, educated in Germany under an exacting European taskmaster born 1851. Emigrated 1872. Worked in Pattern Department of Belleville Pump & Skein. Established his own business 1906. The 1870 St. Clair County Census Index, p 82 lists a Conrad, Born 1834, Gar! Conrad 36 HS, Catharine 27 MO, Philip 7, Minna 6, George 5, Jacob 2 Children born in Illinois, family living in Lebanon 1881 History of St. Clair County, Conrad Fritz, with others form Novelty Carriage Works. 1893: Conrad Fritz, Trustee Gerstoecker Lodge, AOUW Daily Advocate newspaper 2/1/1926: Conrad Fritz, employed at Harrison Machine Works and Belleville Stove Co. many years. Died. Survived by wife and son. Moved to Twin Falls, Idaho 1911 Photo appears in "Belleville 1814-1914" published by Arcadia, Nov 2004 p 65: "A patternmaker makes the foundryman's "mold forming" tool etc. etc. |