Antique Photograph By H.N.Tiemann Co.Of The Buckingham Hotel-5thAve&50th St-1878 remise

1496)Up For your consideration is this Antique Photograph By H.N.Tiemann Co.Of The Buckingham Hotel-5thAve&50th St-1878. And Saint Patrick's cathedral is in this photograph. Possibly under construction. The frame measures approximately 15“ x 14“ x 1“. It comes with its photographic blind stamp on the bottom right corner of the photograph. The frame and photograph are in excellent condition considering their age. It does show signs of its age gracefully with some scratches in the wood frame and some discoloration in the white matting border. And the brown paper backing is ripped and places.Everything indicated in photographs. Thanks for taking a look!

H.N. Tiemann

H.N. Tiemann & Co. was a Manhattan-based commercial photography company which primarily recorded prominent New York buildings, bridges, civic celebrations, and fashionable street scenes for publication or general sale beginning in the 1890s. 

Hermann Newell Tiemann (1863-1957), founder and president of H.N. Tiemann & Co., was born in New York on February 2, 1863. His father, Julius William Tiemann, was the brother of New York City Mayor Daniel F. Tiemann and a partner in D.F. Tiemann & Co. paint manufacturers in Manhattanville. His mother was Julius Tiemanns second wife, Marie Antoinette Megie of Brooklyn. Hermann Tiemann married Belle Louise Minor in her hometown of Newtown, Connecticut on June 22 1892. He lived with his family in Connecticut from 1905 until his death in 1957, although his business remained in New York City through 1948. His name is often misspelled as "Herman", without the final "n", in city directories and other publications. 

Trows New York City Directory of 1891 lists Hermann Tiemann as a commercial photographer, but he was already active as an amateur by 1885 when he showed his work in the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Amateur Photographers of remise New York. Tiemann continued to exhibit through the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York and then as a member of the Camera Club of New York throughout the 1880s and 1890s. 

Tiemanns first studio opened at 13 West 42nd Street in Manhattan; it moved to number 19 and then 17 West 42nd Street between 1893 and 1898. From 1904 to 1919, H.N. Tiemann & Co. was located at 4 East 30th Street, moving in 1920 to 176 Lexington Avenue where it remained until 1948, the year of the firms presumed dissolution (when the firm ceased appearing in directories). Beginnning 1920, directories list the firm as a purveyor of photographic supplies. Hermann Tiemann died in Connecticut in 1957 at the age of 94. 

Courtesy NY Historical Societ