The original location catered to professional and amateur photographers, selling cameras, developing chemicals and photo paper as well as a retail trade in picture frames, fountain pens, housewares and gift items. To its downtown store at 215 Alamo Plaza, Fox added another at 1732 Broadway. 2, 1958, thousands of families suddenly were hooked on taking pictures - and taking their film to Fox to be developed. Newton II, told the San Antonio Express, Nov.
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Newton’s other successful strategy was to offer a camera “free to anyone buying three rolls of film and prepaying developing and printing charges on it.” Within a few months, his successor, Carl D. From that modest start, Newton “developed one of the largest Kodak businesses in the country,” retaining the Fox name to emphasize quickness as he expanded the company thanks to his adoption of “a patented process of rapid developing and printing,” according to his obituary in the Light, Nov. The business was then one of several photo studios here, selling cabinet photos (affixed to a card) for $1 and gift coupons for photo sessions, while developing customers’ photos for 10 cents a roll.
Fox, who sold out in 1909 to Newton - described in company lore as a native of Canada - for $700. The company’s name and symbol originated with the Fox Photo Studio, opened in 1906 on Alamo Plaza by Arthur C. … The old photo is not damaged or marred in any way.” With the assistance of its “expert retouch department, special features can be brought out or restored. The company advertised that “We can restore any old or new picture to its original charm” the company’s store at 215 Alamo Plaza made “a specialty out of copying old photographs,” says an advertorial in the San Antonio Light, June 5, 1937. Given the style of dress in your photo, it’s almost surely a much older photo, “photo-copied” by Fox. Your photo, at least in the digital image you sent, doesn’t have this, although the one you saw online did. “Border prints” from Fox featured linear, Art Deco-influenced designs on a white border around the printed image through the early ’50s. Newton, above the running fox later versions streamlined the representation of the eponymous animal. Earlier company logos had the owner’s name, Carl D. “On the back of every print from the Fox Co.,” a 1922 newspaper advertisement promises, “is the name of Foxtone, which means pleasingly soft pictures, perfect in detail and color values.” Customers were advised to “Look for the Foxtone stamp of quality on the back of your Kodak (brand film) pictures.” Judging from the logo on the back of your picture, it probably was made between the mid-1930s and the mid-’40s. It’s all the personal details, the grand moments and the spontaneous happenings that make your wedding truly yours - and we capture it all.Your photo must have been one of the “world-famous round-cornered Foxtone border prints” produced during the first half of the 20th century by the Fox Co., later Fox-Stanley Photo Products Inc. We’ll catch the first look, the first tear, and the first time the flower girl does something equally funny and adorable. Check out more of our popular San Antonio wedding photography locations below! Once you’ve found the perfect site, let’s get it set up with a George Street photographer to capture the professional photos you’re looking for! This luxury hotel sets the scene for a lavish engagement session. Another striking location is the Wyndham St Anthony Riverwalk. You’re looking for the perfect San Antonio location and photographer to create your keepsakes, and we have all of the information you need in one place! Stop by the Brackenridge Park and take dreamy photos with your fiance under the many stone archways. Your engagement session may be the first time you and your fiance have professional photos taken, so we want to make this an easy transition for you. Engagement locations WE LOVE in San Antonio Revel in the bliss of the time between “Will you…” and “I do!įlip through engagement photos we’ve taken in San Antonio to gain some Big Day inspiration.
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